Cities Skylines 2

https://www.ign.com/articles/cities-skylines-2-launches-big-on-steam-but-suffers-complaints-over-performance

Cities Skylines 2 has launched big on Steam, hitting over 100,000 concurrent players and sitting atop the best-sellers chart. But performance issues have marred the launch, which was met with a ‘mixed’ user review rating of 48% on Valve’s platform.

The majority of the negative user reviews include complaints about the city builder’s performance, which developer Colossal Order had warned would be a problem before the game came out. The current ‘most helpful review’ for Cities Skylines 2 on Steam, from user Ariegan, simply states: “Who would imagine that we would get another unoptimized mess of a game in 2023... I am tired, boss…”

Steam user CountCristo goes into more detail. “Sadly the game isn't ready for release, hold off for now - I'll be happy when the time comes to change this review! The game performs horribly, and on the settings that allow it to scrape by with 20fps it looks dramatically worse than Cities 1. There are also various bugs (especially around ‘not enough customers’) that fill the game with annoying bubble alerts for no reason.”

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The original game was terrific - so, expectations were obviously sky-high for its successor. And, it's rather sad to see it hasn't been living up to them yet .

Let's hope the performance issues can be fixed, so this game can eventually live up to its full potential!

Launch being a slight flop but (hopefully) gets better is the Paradox special