I got 35fps at the main menu and in game on a brand new map w/o building a single thing. I have a 13900k, 64GB of RAM, and a RTX 4090, playing on a 1440p ultrawide monitor. There are also various bugs (especially around ‘not enough customers’) that fill the game with annoying bubble alerts for no reason.”Īnd here’s another Steam review, from user Stin: “Everyone already knows the performance is terrible, so I'll just share my experience so you have a further example to compare to. “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.
Steam user CountCristo goes into more detail. 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. 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.
