Cities: Skylines - Airports

There's a certain power people feel when they play a city-building game. Starting out with a blank slate piece of land, then placing buildings and planning roads around them is truly an intoxicating feeling.

CS took that feeling and dialed it up to eleven with its crazy detailed, highly in-depth city-building gameplay. DLC has since been released adding even more options for your own personal city, and another one is on the way with the high flying DLC pack Cities: Skylines - Airports. Here are some of the details of this brand new addition to the ever-expanding Cities: Skylines experience.

Your Airport, Your Way

In Cities: Skylines - Airports, your options for airport planning are nearly endless. Everything from where the airport is placed, the size and shape of the building, and even the number of terminals are customizable. This is a huge upgrade from the base game, which had airports as drag and drop buildings with minimal customization.

The extreme customization extends to an airline that you can make in whatever image you see fit, from what the logo of the operation looks like, to how much you charge for a ticket to ride. From economical to over the top and everything in between, Cities: Skylines - Airports allows you to build everything to your exact specifications.

Everything is Connected

The customization doesn’t stop at just the building and airline, every aspect of how your city is connected to your airport is up to you. Plan out the gates and the concourses that connect them, you’ll need to do that to the best of your abilities if you want to have any hope of a highly functioning airport. Next, in the same vein as other city builders like SimCity, plan out the roads that handle arriving and departing cars, as well as the public transport systems like busses and trains that carry the other traveling citizens of your city. Build out your airport to accommodate more and more people as you manage the efficiency of these interconnected systems. Become the first choice for travel worldwide!

Travel and Commerce

Most airports rely on the tourism industry, so the more appealing your city is, the more people will come to visit from places near and far. Gain the favor of vacationers and business people alike to grow your airport's influence and unlock bigger, better facilities for these customers to enjoy.

Pros

• Manage your airport down to the most minute details
• Huge number of options for all aspects of creation
• Planning out roads, concourses, and buildings is oddly therapeutic
• Hours upon hours of gameplay to perfect your airport

Cons

• Pathing each individual road can be tedious
• Number of options might become overwhelming