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THINNER CITY

NEED TO KNOW

WHAT IS IT?

Colossal Order’s urban city builder sequel

EXPECT TO PAY

£42

DEVELOPER

Colossal Order

PUBLISHER

Paradox Interactive

REVIEWED ON

Intel Core i7-9700K, 16GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Ti

MULTIPLAYER

No

LINK

paradoxinteractive.com/games/cities-skylines-ii

Attention citizens! You may have noticed two exciting new features in our fair city. The first is the Large Hadron Collider, an extremely massive and expensive scientific facility that will inspire an interest in education and boost our tech industry! The second new feature is that, due to the heavy infrastructural demands of the collider, every sewer in the city is backed up and none of your toilets will flush.

Not to worry! To fix that I’ll just buy more land so I can build additional groundwater pumping stations and water treatment plants – or at least I would do that if I hadn’t spent every last penny on that big collider thingie. Time to mess with some budget sliders and take out a huge loan I’ll probably never be able to pay back, so expect higher taxes, fewer firefighters and ambulances, and please, please try not

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