During the night, traffic is lessened, and emergency vehicles have an easier time getting from place to place. Citizens have different behaviors at various points of the day – they go to and from work, to the store, and to their homes.
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If you’ve played the game at all, you understand how to use everything new you get with After Dark. Let me say that again: Instead of make this game harder to play by adding systems, this expansion adds things to do that aren’t any harder to learn. It’s a superb design decision, and unlike many other games with tiered expansion structures like this one has, it doesn’t add complexity. Like much of this game’s deeper functionality, you can try it at your own pace. That’s all still true – After Dark‘s new mechanics don’t add complexity, they add depth, since they mostly utilize pre-existing systems within the game and on the whole are completely optional ways to develop your city. The mechanics are easily understood, the goals elegant and open ended in implementation, and the gameplay smooth. The learning curve is a tiny bit steep at first, but my partner who has zero experience with a city builder was able to make a passable city of nearly 70,000 in ten hours of play without encountering that many stumbling points.
It’s a fun, fun game and even the little complaints I have about it did nothing to stop my enjoyment. Indulge me while I quote my original review: What’s most pleasing about the systems is that they don’t make the game any less approachable. And, of course, the show-stealing daytime to night transitions. The new features are superb, from added types of public transport to specializations for your commercial districts. After Dark is the first combination free update and expansion for the game, adding features for those who do and don’t choose to buy it.
I don’t see another game stealing away 90+ hours of my game time so easily. Cities: Skylines is definitely one of my games of the year – if not the best game I’ve played this year – and decidedly the leader in management sims.