Is your PC ready for Cities Skylines 2? Here’s what you need to run it

Here’s the hardware you’ll need to run Cities Skylines 2 on PC

Cities Skylines was a revolutionary game, coming from Colossal Order and Paradox Interactive, the game effectively killed off EA’s long-lived SimCity series by delivering what fans wanted, a large, in-depth city simulator that’s free of always online requirements or other gimmicks. 

While Cities Skylines remains an excellent city builder, it is showing its age, and now Colossal Order has confirmed that the game’s sequel, Cities Skylines 2, will be launching on PC and current generation consoles on October 24th. Additionally, the game’s PC system requirements are now available to view on Steam, letting PC gamers know the level of hardware that is requires to run the game.

As expected, PC gamers will need stronger hardware to run Cities Skylines 2 at launch, with the game’s minimum graphics cards being Nvidia’s GTX 780 and AMD’s Radeon RX 470. The good news is that the game will be playable on lower-end gaming PCs, but based on the game’s recommended system requirements it looks like it will have graphical options and settings that will allow the game look incredible on higher-end systems.

Below are Cities Skylines 2’s PC system requirements. Sadly, these system requirements lack resolution, framerate or settings targets.  

MINIMUM:

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 10 Home 64 Bit
Processor: Intel Core i7-4790K / AMD Ryzen 5 1600X
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 (3GB) or AMD Radeon RX 470 (4GB)
Sound Card: TBC

RECOMMENDED:

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 10 Home 64 Bit | Windows 11
Processor: Intel Core i7-9700K | AMD Ryzen 5 5600X
Memory: 16 GB RAM
Graphics: Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti (11GB) | AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT (16GB)
Sound Card: TBC

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