Software

Cities: Skylines - Expanded Edition

Nintendo Switch 2

Build, manage, and expand the city of your dreams in Cities: Skylines – Expanded Edition, the award-winning city-building game optimized for Nintendo Switch™ 2 with 10 included DLC expansions and content packs. Start with a few roads and grow your city into a bustling metropolitan hub. Plan neighborhoods, manage public services, shape civic policies, and respond to the ever-changing needs of thousands of citizens. Whether you create a quiet coastal town, a busy industrial center, or a sprawling modern metropolis, your city is yours to design. Optimized and Expanded for Nintendo Switch 2 Experience Cities: Skylines with upgrades designed for large-scale city building on Nintendo Switch 2, including improved visuals, better performance, expanded building tools, and new ways to play. • 25 Buildable Tiles: Expand your city across a much larger area, increased from the original 9-tile limit. • Map Editor: Create and customize your own landscapes and maps before you start building. • UX Improvements: Use precision placement, a distance indicator, and updated snapping options for more refined construction. • Environmental Controls Panel: Adjust atmospheric elements in real time, including time of day, rain, fog, and environmental coloring. • Quick Selection Tool: Swap quickly between essential tools and assets for smoother city management. • Graphics Options: Choose between a Performance Option targeting 60 FPS with upscaling and adjusted quality settings, or a Quality Option targeting 30 FPS and prioritizing visual fidelity. • Keyboard and Mouse Support: Build with keyboard and mouse input alongside traditional controller configurations. Build Your City, Your Way Plan road networks, bus lines, parks, districts, and public services. Bring on a smog-filled industrial revolution, create a quiet beach town for tourists, or build eco-conscious neighborhoods powered by renewable energy. Provide education, healthcare, safety, and essential services to keep your citizens happy and your city moving. A Deep and Challenging Simulation As mayor, you will balance education, water, electricity, policing, firefighting, healthcare, traffic, and the city economy. Your citizens react dynamically to your decisions, creating new challenges as your city grows. Districts, Policies, and Local Traffic Simulation Shape different parts of your city with district-level policies. Create a car-free downtown area, offer free public transport on the waterfront, or give neighborhoods their own unique identities. Manage traffic with careful road planning and a range of transport systems, including buses, trains, subways, and more. 10 DLC Expansions & Content Packs included Expand your city with a collection of additional content included in the Expanded Edition. Watch your city transform at night with After Dark, navigate winter transit networks in Snowfall, build eco-conscious neighborhoods with Green Cities, and manage bustling maritime hubs in Sunset Harbor. The package also includes Map Pack 3, Country Road, Pearls from the East, Deep Focus Radio, Carols, Candles & Candy, and Match Day. Your city, your rules. Are you ready to expand?

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Notices

Required Space

Nintendo Switch 2
5.9GB
Supported Play Modes
Number of Players
1
Family Group Lending
Supported
Save Data Cloud
Supported
Supported Platforms
Nintendo Switch 2
Publisher
ParadoxInteractive
Genre
Simulation
Supported Languages
  • Japanese,
  • English,
  • Portuguese,
  • Spanish,
  • French,
  • German,
  • Russian,
  • Korean,
  • Chinese (Simplified),
  • Chinese (Traditional),
  • Polish
Age Rating
G
In-Game Purchases

A paid membership to Nintendo Switch Online is required to use the Save Data Cloud.

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If there is not enough free space available, you can delete unnecessary software or insert a microSD card with enough space.
Note: Nintendo Switch 2 is only compatible with microSD Express cards.

About Supported Features

This software supports the following: - Surround sound (linear PCM)

© 2015-2026 Paradox Interactive AB. Cities: Skylines is published by Paradox Interactive AB, developed by Colossal Order Ltd. and adapted for Nintendo Switch 2 by Tantalus Media Pty. Ltd. CITIES: SKYLINES and PARADOX INTERACTIVE are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Paradox Interactive AB in Europe, the U.S. and other countries. Nintendo Switch is a trademark of Nintendo. Any other trademark, logo and copyright is the property of its owner.
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