I’m not well versed in how the other console versions perform, but on Switch,
Cities: Skylines is an ugly mess. Graphics are never the most important element in game design, but you’d think a game about creating virtual cities would at least look half decent.
Still, I can accept the almost cardboard style of buildings and static decal placements if
Cities ran with an acceptable framerate. In docked play, everything will start off fine, but then quickly devolve into what looks like single-digit framerates at times. Zooming in attempts to up the quality of whatever building you’re looking at, but to the detriment of the framerate which then makes navigating your city feel excruciating. Trying to figure out how to connect bus routes while moving at roughly 10 frames per second is truly horrendous. If you happen to expand your plot of land beyond the single starting square, you’re really going to have a bad time.
Using the “Unlimited Money” option, I set out creating a massive city and the end result was just disgusting. Terrible pop-in, languid framerates, and choppy audio were all on the docket. It comes off like a beta version of a product instead of a fully functional, ready-to-sell game. I’m probably underestimating the amount of work required to bring
Cities to Switch, but I’m convinced the Switch was not the right platform for this title.
In a surprise twist, handheld mode does run better than docked play. It looks worse than docked and still isn’t devoid of sluggish framerates, but the game typically performs at a much better click. I wouldn’t call it ideal (especially not the battery drain), but it beats the heck out of docked play. That being said, the darkness and contrast settings of this game are so out of whack that I wish I could turn off the in-game clock. When it gets to nighttime, you’re basically not going to be able to see a damn thing while in portable mode, despite being able to manually adjust the Switch’s screen brightness
https://www.destructoid.com/review-cities-skylines-switch--524426.phtml
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