Maybe some cars were slipping and sliding, but if so, nobody complained about it. I endured life without snow removal for a while at the start of my first game as I couldn’t find it in the interface (it’s obscured in the roads menu instead of tucked in where it should be alongside other public works features like the landfill site), and the impact on my streets wasn't noticeable. An opportunity missed.īoth features add complexity to city planning, but not much in the way of difficulty. Standard water/sewer pipes must now be upgraded with heating pipes that carry warmth to citizens from boiler stations and geothermal power plants.Īdding in the possibility of a winter disaster, like a city-crippling blizzard or a freezing-rain storm that brought down power for an extended period of time, would have made heating homes and businesses a lot tougher. And, of course, the icy conditions also make it vital to heat homes and businesses. Snow quickly accumulates on the streets, necessitating the construction of plows that patrol the roads and a place where all that excess white stuff can be piled. The most prominent example of this is the new gauge at the bottom of the screen that tracks some pretty frigid temps, far below the point of freezing. Gameplay has been tweaked in a handful of notable ways to emphasize the colder weather, too. It gives the game a facelift even though repetition remains something of an annoyance whenever you want to take an up-close-and-personal look at your burgeoning metropolis from street level. The snowfall is idyllic, and it adds a lot of atmosphere to cities as it falls during the near-constant storms. Keep the public happy when the snow falls by building a snowmobile track.Įven with its single-minded design, Snowfall offers a fresh spin on Cities: Skylines. As it is, you’re either tackling Old Man Winter 24/7 or you’re off to the original game in a map with green grass and sunshine. Progression through the seasons would have been a nice touch, as would the option to play around with the intensity of the winter weather. That certainly underlines the wintry focus of this add-on, but it also makes everything a tad simplistic. Each map is all winter, all the time, with so much icy precipitation that you might as well be stuck inside a snow globe.
Virtually all of the new winter features are confined to the three new maps: Snowy Coast, Icy Islands, and Frosty Rivers. The biggest issue for me is that Snowfall is pretty much an all-or-nothing proposition. With all that said, there are some limitations here. As a real mayor in a Canadian city who deals with this sort of thing for a good four months every year, I’m not complaining. Nearly every conceivable snow-related issue has been packed in here except for irate residents furious about snowplows blocking in their driveways.
The latest expansion to Cities: Skylines-a world building sim in the style of classic Sim City games-brings all of the unique challenges of winter weather to the desktops of virtual mayors.
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