Cities: Skylines
We built this city on… cardboard tiles
Designer: Rustan Håkansson | Artist: Fiore
City building is one of gaming’s great recurring themes. From Suburbia to Between Two Cities and Warsaw: City of Ruins, there are plenty of opportunities to throw on a hard hat and create your ideal urban environment.
That goes for video games, too. The iconic SimCity series has kept generations of players up into the early hours tweaking tax rates and planning power grids. And more recently, contender Cities: Skylines has emerged as the top civic administration simulator. Now it’s made the jump to the tabletop, with a cardboard conversion which charges you and your friends with building the city of your dreams, or woefully mismanaging it into an overcrowded, polluted, crimeridden hellscape.