Steam reviews
Mixed
54% of 88,281 reviews
Strategy LiveVery active
CITIES: SKYLINES II
Cities: Skylines II has 11,847 concurrent players on Steam right now. Its 24 hour peak is 15,175 and its all-time peak is 15,774. Data refreshes every 5 minutes from the official Steam Web API.
DEV · Iceflake Studios, Colossal OrderPUB · Paradox Interactive2023
Raise a city from the ground up and transform it into a thriving metropolis with the most realistic city builder ever. Push your creativity and problem-solving to build on a scale you've never experienced. With deep simulation and a living economy, this is world-building without limits.
- Strong daily player base. Matchmaking and servers will be lively.
- Currently at 75% of the all-time peak of 15,774 players.
- Last updated 5 weeks ago: Hotfix - Patch 1.5.8f1.
Playing now
11,847
24h peak
15,175
24h change
▲ 13.8%
Quick verdict
Is Cities: Skylines II still alive in 2026?
PREVIOUS 24 HOURS
GALLERY & TRAILERS
1 / 9
ACROSS PLATFORMS
STEAMLIVE
Current
11.8K
24h peak
15.2K
All-time
15.8K
TWITCHLIVE · VIEWERS
Watching now
389
Xbox · PlayStation · Nintendo
No public concurrent-player API exists for these platforms. Other sites guess by scraping achievement timestamps or leaderboards. We won’t make up numbers. If the platforms ever ship a real API, real numbers will show up here.
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