“When I'm Done, We're Subscribed To 528 Items On The Steam Workshop”

The city begins to take shape as PHIL goes on a mod hunt

Opening the Steam Workshop, I spend a while playing with various district styles. My plan is to give each district a theme. I want vibrant, contrasting communities – pockets of cyberpunk techno-living next to medieval townships and fantasy wonderlands. But then I change my mind. After all, isn’t PC gaming one big melting pot – a confluence of community and individuality? I hope so, because using district mods is complicated, and keeps making the game crash.

Instead, I just download pages and pages of buildings that will automatically construct on any residential, commercial or industrial zones I lay. We’ve got neon skyscrapers, we’ve got classical architecture, we’ve even got a KFC. When I’m done, we’re subscribed to 528 items on the Steam Workshop. I open up Cities: Skylines and wait for a new map to load. It takes a long time.