

Gula’s Architectural Designs is a 24-item collection from the titular modder, and it’s a corker. Okay, Okay, you don’t all want futuristic cities. Get this building to let all your citizens know that the state will crush them. It’s also practical, providing electricity for all the terrified ants scurrying below. Is there a hint of Brutalism about it? Who cares, it looks bad ass. Let’s stay in the future with the imposing, monolithic power station FOGBAE-TOWR4. The police tower looks a little bit off during the day, I think it’s all the black, but at night it’s incredible. The Tyrell pyramid is particularly impressive, and it’s perfect if you want something in your city that screams malevolence. You can’t get more ostentatious than these two buildings. While we’re talking cyberpunk, let’s not forget about Blade Runner. Blade Runner Police Tower and Tyrell Corporation Pyramid This makes the Ghost in the Shell Buildings pack essential, though it’s more understated than a lot of my sci-fi mods, making it a solid addition to a contemporary city as well. You’ll undoubtedly notice a theme in this list. The first question I ask myself when building a new city is how futuristic and gaudy do I want it to be? The answer is always: as gaudy and futuristic as possible. Most of these mods will work with the base game, but there are a few you’ll need one of the expansions for, and remember to check for conflicts. If you don’t want to faff, however, I’ve gathered a bunch of the best, including some personal favourites that I can’t live without.

And you should absolutely give Steam Workshop a browse - you never know what you might find. That’s quite a lot of stuff to get through. On the day of its launch, Skylines already had pages and pages of buildings and complicated junctions waiting to be downloaded now there are 1,000 of them, containing a ridiculous 145,948 mods. The real-life counterpart is roughly 14 km and would barely fit the whole city in the game.Cities: Skylines turned three a couple of weeks ago, meaning that it’s time to dust off our best Cities: Skylines mods list and see what wonderful community creations we can fill it with. I also measured Tampere, Finland (which I expect to be more accurate than SF) on Google Earth, which I compared with the map from the game. And this can only be done with SC4-style regions. Realistically, I think that's going to be #2, where you would connect with the outside world, though I hope we can seriously build sprawling metropolises like in real life.

I think it has been pointed out that New Dollarton was built on the River Delta map.
