UPDATE: 2-star. I hate this game. They are supposedly trying to fix it but they are working at the pace of snails and the game is still trash after all this time. They didn't learn or improve on anything from the first game. The graphics aren't even that much better, so I'm not sure what they even worked on.

Performance is garbage, the maps suck and if there is the slightest hill the limited assets look horrible. The road placing is dated, and the zoning lot system could have easily been redone into something innovative like many other games have. You can't even place a street without the game constantly renaming everything attached to it and you have to make sure every road ends with an unrealistic piece on the end otherwise it will turn everything into one long winding road. It's basically been a year and we still don't have custom assets so people can add some variety to this lifeless cookie-cutter 5 assets the game comes with.

Adding mods is a necessity, and for some reason they got rid of Steam Workshop integration and their modding platform sucks. Can't search things easily, prepare to wade through dozens of non-related items for any search and its buggy and glitchy. The game has to restart every time you add a freaking mod. And it takes forever to startup and load and then forces you to wait while it does who the hell knows what with the mods before you can do anything.

After over a year the map editor is still in "beta" and is impossible to use, no wonder you don't find many custom maps - and the default selection in this game is horrible. Creating custom maps is downright impossible as when you add water it floods the entire world and the controls dont work or the editor will just crash. You can't even build roads or highways you have to then load your map in and edit it in game if you want even basic road layout options.

What an absolute waste of time and money. If there was a masterclass on disappointment, these developers would be teaching it.

FIRST IMPRESSIONS:

1-star. For now. Everything lacks polish, is broken, glithchy or just plain bad. Cities Scamlines is more like it for the moment. I just gave this another try and realized I can't even measure my cities out. There's no grid while laying out a singular road, instead they give you "yard" measurements. That's useless!

UPDATE: 2-star. I hate this game. They are supposedly trying to fix it but they are working at the pace of snails and the game is still trash after all this time. They didn't learn or improve on anything from the first game. The graphics aren't even that much better, so I'm not sure what they even worked on. Performance is garbage, the maps suck and if there is the slightest hill the limited assets look horrible. The road placing is dated, and the zoning lot system could have easily been redone into something innovative like many other games have. You can't even place a street without the game constantly renaming everything attached to it and you have to make sure every road ends with an unrealistic piece on the end otherwise it will turn everything into one long winding road. It's basically been a year and we still don't have custom assets so people can add some variety to this lifeless cookie-cutter 5 assets the game comes with. Adding mods is a necessity, and for some reason they got rid of Steam Workshop integration and their modding platform sucks. Can't search things easily, prepare to wade through dozens of non-related items for any search and its buggy and glitchy. The game has to restart every time you add a freaking mod. And it takes forever to startup and load and then forces you to wait while it does who the hell knows what with the mods before you can do anything. After over a year the map editor is still in "beta" and is impossible to use, no wonder you don't find many custom maps - and the default selection in this game is horrible. Creating custom maps is downright impossible as when you add water it floods the entire world and the controls dont work or the editor will just crash. You can't even build roads or highways you have to then load your map in and edit it in game if you want even basic road layout options. What an absolute waste of time and money. If there was a masterclass on disappointment, these developers would be teaching it. FIRST IMPRESSIONS: 1-star. For now. Everything lacks polish, is broken, glithchy or just plain bad. Cities Scamlines is more like it for the moment. I just gave this another try and realized I can't even measure my cities out. There's no grid while laying out a singular road, instead they give you "yard" measurements. That's useless!