The New Ultimate Beginners Guide to Cities Skylines 2

New and Improved for the Economy 2.0 world! If you've just picked up Cities Skylines and are struggling to build a thriving city, I’m here to help!

In this series, I’ll help you build a thriving city, starting with the modest bones of a small town and slowly growing it into a megalopolis! Along the way, we’ll explore the game’s mechanics and I’ll share tips and tricks I’ve learned from my time with the game. I’ll also share how I design cities based upon my experience as a real-life city planner. This is an ongoing series that we’ll also use to explore new DLCs and Content Creator Packs as they are introduced to the game.

In today’s video, we’ll cover a number of topics including: how to start a city, laying out a basic grid, utilities, extractors, zoning, progression and milestones, the development tree, the city economy, rezoning, and city expansion. And by the end, we'll have a small town of nearly 5,000 in population with a positive budget.

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CHAPTERS

Series Introduction - 0:00
Map Selection - 1:07
Map Analysis & Planning - 3:26
In Defence of the Grid - 8:20
Laying Out Local Roads - 10:29
Blending Grids - 14:10
Planning for Roadway Hierarchy - 18:00
Cleaning Up Roadway Layouts - 21:09
Specialized Industries - 24:35
Utilities - 35:47
The Basics of Zoning and Progression - 44:46
Zoning and Detailing - 1:10:28
City Tour - 1:12:59
Final Thoughts - 1:14:40

[NewoNZ]

You make this look so much easier than it actually is.

You commented at one point that by laying out all the roads first you are developing the city backwards. I'd love to see you do a video where you try and build as close as possible to the way a normal city would develop naturally (Specifically focusing on how the road layout would organically develop rather than having the foundations already down).

[avail]

"A little bit off, that's character." A phrase I will now use to describe my uncle.

[BryceMcSherry]

Oh thank god this series is back after economy 2.0. All my successful cities at this point are played with all tiles unlocked so I can build industry early.

[BH-xenb]

Even with 260 hours in the game I found this to be useful. I took a long break while they were fixing the game and this kind of got me back on track to push through builder's block.

[CBGBBB]

I really think after more mods and updates happen over the next few months this game is gonna finally be what people have been waiting for.

[Andeca]

I’ve been following you for years and several other content creators, mainly for CS1. There is no one that comes even close to you in making tutorials. You have such pedagogical capabilities and you put them masterfully in these outstanding didactic guides. Thank a lot and congratulations

[emyrgrznsky]

Man you are SUCH an artist.

This right here is ART, I don't understand how you can be so talented, geniuenly amazing work.

[jordgoin]

Woah.. what are the odds I legitamly just looked up newer beginner guides wishing you had one. Thank you for the great videos!

[humanname]

This isn't just a tutorial, it's a masterclass.

You make city building seem so elegant and like works of art.

The way the grids come together and the way you connect them all is just so seemless

[DoneBrokeDatBack]

My man. Thanks for the video. Just picked up Skylines 2 earlier this week and have a long weekend. Always enjoy your content, brother. Much love from NC.

[SpainSpace]

Thank you so much, I put off the game a few months ago and just now I've been coming back and with your videos and other creator's like Infrastructurist and FewCandy I've managed to get a basic understanding again, along with mods. Hopefully this guide helps me after these new updates!

[lamardoss]

I just got this game tonight and it is downloading now. I've never played it before. I did love playing Sim Copter and Sim City many, many years ago. I am probably showing my age at this point. Lol. I think that was well over 20 years ago.

Thank you for making this video. I've watched a couple the past hour or so and this one is explaining the depth of a "good start" immediately it seems. This game is much more involved than I realized and that is amazing. Looking forward to playing it now and looking forward to binge watching your videos. You have a new sub.

[wolfydude]

I'd love if you had a road building masterclass video. How to determine what the street to call main street is, how to make couplets work; approprate highway links and spacing, and how to realistically transition between them. I think traffic is sometimes the hardest part to understand sometimes. Being able to create an effective road network would bring a lot of value to a lot of players.

[MiraBene]

Each time you release a new vid, I know I'm in for a comfy 1h coffee-drinking, relaxing hour <3 It is SO satisfying to look at you playing, explaining, with a perfectly edited/rythmed video. Thanks a million for this!

[loganeasley]

Dude your videos are so relaxing but engaging they’re my go-to comfort for bad trips. I don’t even play this game lmao

[wandabissell]

A beginner's guide is just what I want! So many of these videos assume you know how to do a decent interchange! Thx

[soopafly]

CPP: Road building is more of an art than science
Bifa while holding his lane mathematics book: *explodes*

[MusicalBubs]

i love that you’re not only teaching us about cities: skylines 2, but also some irl city planning !!

[coach.pattie]

One suggestion for the next time we do lots of road building, if you could talk a bit more about how/why you angle the grids you do and slow that bit down that would help a ton! Maybe you could use the draw tool to mark the key orientation points along the map like you did with the industry/community areas?

I was building along, but my second grid orientation was all off so I had to make some adjustments. Once I figured out why you oriented the way you did, it made sense, just got confused while following along ^^;.

[raveeeneeen]

Even after 250 hours, i learned so much more with this "Beginners Guide", especially about zoning and the perfect grid. Awesome. Thank you very much!