Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation. The game introduces new game play elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating and maintaining a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city building experience.
Cities: Skylines playtime stats
434 tracked Steam players have spent 3.4 years in Cities: Skylines, 69 hours each on average; the median player has 19 hours. The top 10% have 148 hours or more, while 13% are still under two hours, inside Steam's refund window. Over the last 30 days 0.1% of active players played it, 31 hours in all, most of all on Sundays. A typical day of play lasts 2.4 hours. It is the most played game for 3 of its players. Its players also play Cities: Skylines II, Transport Fever 2 and Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI.
Total playtime
= 30,110 hours total
across 434 players
Avg per player
median 19h
Avg day of play
per player, on days they play
Loyalty
of its players' Steam time · top game for 3 players
New players
first played it in the last 30 days
Achievements
avg unlocked · 2 players at 100%
Cities: Skylines over time
UTC days. Each line is scaled to its own range; hover a day for the values. Today is still in progress.
Trend
last 30 days vs the 30 beforeShare of active players
2 players of 1,551
0.1%
down 0.3 pts
Share of hours played
31h in 30 days
0%
Hours per player
in the last 30 days
16h
up 3013%
Shares, not raw counts: we track more players every week, so raw totals mostly show our own growth.
Weekday pattern
avg hours, UTCBusiest on Sundays, 64% above an average day.
Hours played per day
all tracked players, UTC days · hover a dayDays played
12
Tracked playtime
32h
Avg per day
2.6h
Biggest day
7.6h
Oct 1
Most players
2
Sep 27
Favorite day
Thursday
Top players
Full leaderboard →- 1
Cavern Crawl
3,341h - 2
Moreirazuka™
1,214h - 3
Ginger8281,157h - 4
Dee Dee1,065h - 5
porina
775h - 6
wljzakjl3775h - 7
ElimeIsReady
660h - 8
LaRoso536h - 9
Nova
516h - 10
Goldenfish7469h
How long players stay
lifetime hours per player- Under 1h35 (8%)
- 1–10h120 (28%)
- 10–50h156 (36%)
- 50–100h58 (13%)
- 100–500h56 (13%)
- 500h+9 (2%)
13% of players have under 2 hours, inside Steam's refund window.
Top countries
by tracked players- United States96 players19% of its players
- United Kingdom31 players31% of its players
- Germany28 players29% of its players
- Canada21 players32% of its players
Australia13 players25% of its players
Netherlands9 players33% of its players
Players also play
from its players' most played games, updated nightly
Cities: Skylines II14% also play it
Transport Fever 29.8% also play it
Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI30% also play it
Hearts of Iron IV26% also play it
Grand Theft Auto V Legacy41% also play it
Sid Meier's Civilization® V22% also play it
Europa Universalis IV13% also play it
Stellaris17% also play it
Kerbal Space Program14% also play it
Euro Truck Simulator 222% also play it
Factorio20% also play it
Farming Simulator 2211% also play it