More than another citybuilder, Cities: Skylines requires deep engagement with its site visitors simulation. You can spend an infinite variety of (very glad) hours tweaking your highway community to attempt to repair site visitors jams. The subsequent Cities: Skylines growth may provide an alternate, nevertheless. The Plazas & Promenades DLC, introduced at the moment, will permit you to create pedestrian streets and zones the place vehicles dare not tread. Find the primary trailer under.

I assumed this DLC would simply be about creating parks and leisure areas, however the concept I may flip complete streets into automobile free zones is enormously interesting. Mostly as a result of I want extra cities and cities would observe the instance and do the identical in the true world.

According to the press launch, pedestrian streets can be freed from “most automobiles”, and you may enact three new zone-specific insurance policies on your cities. Those are Slow Driving, which give roads within the pedestrian zone a 20mph pace restrict; Street Music, which will increase happiness but additionally noise air pollution in pedestrian industrial zones; and Sugar Ban, which will increase peep lifespan however decreases happiness. I’m unsure that final one matches with the others, however then, I do not personal a automobile however I do drink a whole lot of fizzy drinks, so maybe I’m biased.

You’ll additionally be capable to specialise districts as workplaces, high-density residential or high-density industrial zones, with every together with 24 new buildings. Lastly, there are newly engaging City Service Buildings. Alongside the Plazas and Promenades DLC, Paradox additionally introduced two new content material creator packs that includes mid-century fashionable buildings by REVO and seaside resort buildings from Gèze.

There’s no launch date for the DLC but however it will likely be “accessible quickly” and can price $15/£13/€15 when it’s. For now, you will discover extra screenshots on Steam.