Cities: Skylines 2 released last night and a record number of players for the series played the game on Steam – albeit to a mixed response.
Publisher Paradox Interactive previously admitted the game had “not achieved the [performance] benchmark” it wanted. Despite that, the sequel reached a concurrent peak of 104,697 players, surpassing the original’s record of 60,386 concurrent players (as recorded by SteamDB).
Steam reviews for Cities: Skylines 2 are mixed however, mostly with criticisms levelled at the game’s performance and some players are questioning Paradox’s decision to release the game even if it believes “releasing now is the best way forward”.
