System requirements · PC

Cities: Skylines PC system requirements

Cities: Skylines needs at least an Intel® Core™ I7 930 | AMD® FX 6350 processor, 8 GB of RAM and an Nvidia® GeForce™ GTS 450 (1 GB) | AMD® R7 250 (2 GB) | Intel Iris Xe G7 (Tiger Lake) graphics card, on Windows® 10 Home 64 Bit.

For the recommended settings: an Intel® Core™ I7 2700K | AMD® Ryzen 7 2700X processor, 16 GB of RAM and an Nvidia® GeForce™ GTX 580 (1.5 GB) | AMD® Radeon™ RX 560 (4 GB) graphics card. It takes 4 GB of storage.

Cities: Skylines: minimum and recommended PC requirements (Windows)
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system	Windows® 10 Home 64 Bit	Windows® 10 Home 64 bit
Processor	Intel® Core™ I7 930 \| AMD® FX 6350	Intel® Core™ I7 2700K \| AMD® Ryzen 7 2700X
Memory	8 GB RAM	16 GB RAM
Graphics	Nvidia® GeForce™ GTS 450 (1 GB) \| AMD® R7 250 (2 GB) \| Intel Iris Xe G7 (Tiger Lake)	Nvidia® GeForce™ GTX 580 (1.5 GB) \| AMD® Radeon™ RX 560 (4 GB)
DirectX	Version 9.0c	Version 11
Storage	4 GB available space Same for both: minimum and recommended
Network	Broadband Internet connection Same for both: minimum and recommended
Additional notes	Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system Same for both: minimum and recommended

How demanding is Cities: Skylines?

Memory: Needs more minimum RAM than 45% of the 1,937 PC games with requirements we track (8 GB).
Storage: Larger than 21% of the 1,852 games with a storage figure (4 GB).

It is on our list of small PC games (under 5 GB).

Compared with the minimum requirements of every game that has a requirements page on gamekeys.deals. We compare memory and storage only: processor and graphics card names cannot be ranked reliably from Steam's text.

Other platforms

Mac

Cities: Skylines: macOS requirements
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system	OS X 10.11 (64-bit) Same for both: minimum and recommended
Processor	Intel Core 2 Duo, 3.0GHz	Intel Core i5-3470, 3.20GHz
Memory	6 GB RAM	8 GB RAM
Graphics	nVIDIA GeForce GTX 260, 512 MB or ATI Radeon HD 5670, 512 MB (Does not support Intel Integrated Graphics Cards)	nVIDIA GeForce GTX 660, 2 GB or AMD Radeon HD 7870, 2 GB (Does not support Intel Integrated Graphics Cards)
Storage	4 GB available space Same for both: minimum and recommended
Network	Broadband Internet connection Same for both: minimum and recommended

Linux and SteamOS

Cities: Skylines: Linux and SteamOS requirements
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system	Ubuntu 12.04 (64-bit)	Ubuntu 14.10 (64-bit)
Processor	Intel Core 2 Duo, 3.0GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+, 3.2GHz	Intel Core i5-3470, 3.20GHz or AMD FX-6300, 3.5Ghz
Memory	6 GB RAM	8 GB RAM
Graphics	nVIDIA GeForce GTX 260, 512 MB or ATI Radeon HD 5670, 512 MB (Does not support Intel Integrated Graphics Cards)	nVIDIA GeForce GTX 660, 2 GB or AMD Radeon HD 7870, 2 GB (Does not support Intel Integrated Graphics Cards)
Storage	4 GB available space Same for both: minimum and recommended
Network	Broadband Internet connection Same for both: minimum and recommended

Cities: Skylines is also available on Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4. The PC specifications on this page do not apply to console editions.