Cities: Skylines
Short description
Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation. The game introduces new game play elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating and maintaining a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city building experience.
- Developer
- Colossal Order
- Publisher
- Paradox Interactive
- Release
- Tue, Mar 10, 2015
- Price
- $29.99
- Reviews
- 219,190
- Positive
- 93%
- Followers
- 877,525
- Owners (estimated)
- 10M – 20M
- Concurrent players
- 8,842
- Genres
- Simulation, Strategy
- Features
- Steam Trading Cards, Steam Workshop, Includes level editor, Remote Play on Tablet
- Tags
Review count and SteamSpy's owner range agree well enough to narrow the estimate down to this band. Multiplied by $26.41, the average price these copies actually sold for — weighted from the price history rather than taken from the $29.99 launch price. That is 12% below list price on average. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.
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Media
History
31 data points since Oct 6, 2026. Gaps mean nothing changed — the value carries forward.
The revenue curve is an estimate, not a measurement. It is the only calculated series here: each interval takes the review growth of that period, multiplies it by the sales-per-review factor and by the price actually charged at the time, and adds the result to the running total. That is why it climbs more slowly through discount periods than the review curve next to it. The last point is the same figure quoted above — gross, before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.
Lowest recorded price: $2.99 on Nov 27, 2024.
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Cities: Skylines II | Colossal Order 4 titles +1 | 5 | − Strategy + Singleplayer | $49.99 | 64,651 | 57% | Tue, Oct 24, 2023 | $142m $97.9m – $245m |
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