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The second large expansion for Cities: Skylines, an economic strategy game developed by Colossal Order. The Snowfall add-on introduces changing weather conditions and temperature fluctuation that can significantly influence the functioning of our city. As the temperature goes down, the citizens consume a lot more power, requiring us to meet the increased demand for electricity or build a municipal central heating system.
Snowfall is the second expansion for Cities: Skylines for PC, PS4 and XONE. The production, being a classical city-building simulator, debuted in March, 2015, and was well-received by players who waited for a worthy successor of the classic SimCity 4 for years. The title sold over a million copies worldwide, and thanks to the incessant support of the developers and the modding scene it still attracts new players. The expansion and the original game were developed by Colossal Order, which specializes in economic strategy productions and created the Cities in Motion series. Similarly to After Dark, some of the novelties introduced in Snowfall were given at no cost to the owners of the vanilla game in the form of a free patch.
Gameplay
Cities: Skylines – Snowfall for PC, PS4 and XONE introduces changing weather and temperature which actually influence the functioning of our city. As temperature goes down, citizens use a lot more power to heat their homes and workplaces. Our task is to face the fluctuating demand for electricity. We prevent any potential problems by developing power plants and transmission lines or by deciding to build a municipal central heating system. Apart from rain or fog, which are both purely cosmetic, a heavy snowfall can pose a real challenge for the mayor since it may paralyze the street traffic. The players have to ensure that snow removal be performed as well as to provide an adequate number of snowplows. But snow is not only a difficulty; it can also be used to build new kinds of parks and special buildings. All of the above options and structures are available on the new winter-themed map.
Moreover, the players can make use of an enhanced system of collective transport management. Thanks to this, it's now easier to control bus routes and set all options connected to them. However, the biggest novelty is the introduction of the long-awaited trams, which complement the list of the available means of public transportation.
Last updated on February 23, 2016
Videos and Screens
[1:05] Cities: Skylines - Snowfall launch trailer
[1:00] Cities: Skylines - Snowfall trailer
GameWatcher: 6 / 10 by Dustin Bailey
Every addition that Snowfall makes is fun and adds a bit of variety to your city-building. But those additions are few, and even the more sweeping systems like road condition and heating don't add any long-term strategic considerations to the game. Even the new winter cities are a mostly visual change. It's tough to recommend dropping money on such an insubstantial expansion.
Cubed3: 5 / 10 by David Lovato
Cities: Skylines - Snowfall adds some features that make sense and look nice, but for the price, there's just not much content here. The graphical updates are beautiful, but the content is severely lacking—those loading an existing file are likely to just dump all of their money into new pipes, while players starting anew can just build hot water pipes from the gate and might not know anything was even added. The changes make sense (excluding locking weather to certain maps) and they work well enough, but are so slight as to be almost offensive for their price tag.
NZGamer: 7.5 / 10 by Jess Nickelsen
Everlasting winter: who will break first - your city, or you?
GAMERS Score
Average score from 90 votes. 15 players anticipated the game.
Cities: Skylines - Snowfall Summary
Platforms:
PC / Windows February 18, 2016
PlayStation 4 November 21, 2017
Xbox One November 14, 2017
Developer: Colossal Order
Publisher: Paradox Interactive
Cities: Skylines - Snowfall System Requirements
PC / Windows
Minimum: Intel Core 2 Duo 3.0 GHz/AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+ 3.2 GHz, 4 GB RAM, graphic card 512 MB GeForce GTX 260/Radeon HD 5670 or better, 4 GB HDD, Windows XP/Vista/7/8/8.1 64-bit
Recommended: Intel Core i5-3470 3.20 GHz/AMD FX-6300 3.5 GHz, 6 GB RAM, graphic card 2 GB GeForce GTX 660/Radeon HD 7870 or better, 4 GB HDD, Windows 7/8 64-bit

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Cities: Skylines
Cities: Skylines Snowfall - a new expansion to a highly acclaimed city-builder announced
Paradox Interactive revealed an upcoming expansion to Cities: Skylines and this time around we get to build and maintain the city in winter landscapes. New content includes weather cosmetics, expanded public transport, new services and infrastructure.
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Mike Manka
January 19, 2016