The worst part of games like Cities: Skylines is that you can make an awesome city you can’t actually live in. Cities: Skylines new Concerts add on won’t let you live in the city of your dreams, but it brings the game a little closer to the things that make cities fun to live in.
The Concerts expansion adds a new ploppable building to your game. There’s only one flavour of venue, a festival grounds, which is surprisingly pristine for place where absolutely no one is having an existential crisis after their fifth beer. On the plus side, it’s always packed with dogs.
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The festival venue comes with a schedule of concerts that play out throughout the in-game year, cycling through a few bands that all have unique stage set ups. Check out Nestor’s fire centric logos:
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The more often bands play, the more popular they get, and when these bands reach a certain level of popularity and you’ve had a certain number of concerts, the festival grounds will upgrade. I haven’t made it there quite yet, but I’ve really been enjoying watching the venue fill up as bands grow more popular.
While other, more substantial Cities: Skylines add ons and expansions add more depth to the game, such as a day night cycle and more mass transit options, now that I know I can have a festival grounds in my cities, I can’t imagine playing without one.
It seems like a minor thing, but being able to imagine my citizens going to see their favourite band — or ever having one in the first place — makes me even more motivated to make sure they all live happy lives, with minimal traffic.
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