Cities: VR - Enhanced Edition
Release Date: April 28, 2022
Strategy, economic, sandbox, Meta Quest / Oculus, city builder, VR, singleplayer
OpenCritic
A spin-off of Cities: Skylines, developed with virtual reality headsets in mind. Just like in the original, in Cities: VR we deal with designing entire cities from scratch, which we can see both from the air and from the street level.
Cities: VR is a spin-off of the bestselling city builder Cities: Skylines, developed with virtual reality headsets in mind. Unlike the original, this game was not developed by the Colossal Order studio, but by the Fast Travel Games team, whose portfolio includes such projects as Apex Construct or Wraith: The Oblivion - Afterlife.
Game mechanics
Cities: VR adopts the main gameplay elements from Cities: Skylines. We design entire cities from scratch. On our shoulders rests the task of marking out streets, placing zones of various purpose (from residential, through commercial to industrial) and supplying them with utilities. Since work is not the only thing the inhabitants of our metropolis live for, it is also necessary to care for their happiness and provide them with a variety of entertainment. However, in order for people to move freely around the city not only on foot or by car (by the way, if we want to avoid traffic jams, we should constantly keep an eye on the capacity of the city's arteries), we should also take care of efficient public transport. Besides, the city should have various services that take care of education, health and safety of residents, as well as cleanliness. For all this we need money, the main sources of which are trade and taxes.
Cities: VR makes use of the possibilities of virtual reality sets. We play the game using motion controllers and we can see the city from different perspectives; both from a top-down view and from the street level. As the game was developed not only for players who have already played the previous games under this banner, but also for newcomers, there is an extensive tutorial that allows you to familiarize yourself with the rules of the game.
Technical aspects
Graphics in Cities: VR present a level similar to that of Cities: Skylines.
Videos and Screens
[1:04] Cities: VR PS VR 2 launch trailer
[1:05] Cities: VR PS VR2 trailer
Thumb Culture: 3 / 5 by Jason Patrick
Cities: VR needs a bit of polishing in my opinion. While it is there for a majority of the game there are clearly some areas that need some work to make the immersion a bit more enjoyable
WayTooManyGames: 9 / 10 by Leonardo Faria
Thanks to its intuitive controls, excellent new UI, and the overall addictive nature of the city-building genre, Cities: VR is now one of my favorite titles available on the Quest, possibly in VR in general, and another great example as how to translate a tried and true formula, once thought to work solely on computers, to a brand new system.
GamingTrend: 75 / 100 by Ron Burke
Cities: VR delivers a vignette version of the Cities: Skylines experience. The controls take a brief moment to get used to, but the hardware limitations of the Quest 2 are harder to overcome. That said, the experience is here, even if it's in a much-slimmed and slightly blander version of the broader experience. While there are some crucial features missing, what is here is a fun slice of the core gameplay loop, and that's impressive for a self-contained package.
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Game Series
Cities Series
A series of strategy games of the city builder type, allowing us to build modern cities from scratch. The series is overseen by Colossal Order studio, a Finnish development team, which has gained experience in creating productions of this type, working on two genre-related games under the banner of Cities in Motion. The publisher of the series Cities series is Paradox Interactive, a company specializing in the strategy genre..
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Cities: VR Summary
Platforms:
PC / Windows April 28, 2022
PlayStation 5 February 22, 2023
Developer: Fast Travel Games
Publisher: Paradox Interactive
Age restrictions: none
