It may have just been me being terrible at the game, but even with a decent amount of education in my city, it took a long time for any students to actually start going to my college.

Honestly, the biggest challenge, once you’ve spent hours designing the layout of the roads in your college campus, is actually getting students to show up. Even then you’re going to need to be 100% sure that you’ll have all the money you need to construct the important buildings, such as dorms, lecture halls, and cafeterias. Obviously it’s quite expensive to construct a college campus, so when you start out you’re probably going to want to pick one type of campus to construct. Once you do get to the point where you’re ready to start constructing your own college campus you find a lot of choices stretching out before you. Even in a well-established city most players will need to be able to afford land expansions to open a new college of this magnitude. This can take a fair amount of time on its own, then add the cost of actually opening the college and you get the picture of why this is a bit of an undertaking. If you’re starting out on a fresh map then you need to have a relatively large settlement with high-school educated students. Part of the reason that this amount of choice feels slightly overwhelming at first is that it takes quite a while to be in a position where building campus is really all that viable. Each of these sections, apart from the naming one, has eight or more options of structures to build, each with their own function.Ĭampus's Extended Build Up You can have some fun with the naming of your campus. You also have the ability to define your campus’ boundaries and give it a name. There are sections for the trade school, the liberal arts college, academic campus, varsity sports, and decorations. The number of options can be pretty overwhelming at first.

Far from simply selecting a ‘university’ building and plonking it down on a random city street you now need to construct each individual department. Going in, the level of detail is outstanding. With the release of the new Campus DLC, you can now spend a ridiculous amount of time creating and controlling every element of a huge college campus.Ĭampus follows the Cities: Skylines trend of allowing players to micro-manage their city's higher education. As time has gone by more and more elements have been added, and by now you can control pretty much every element of your city, from natural disaster response to types of heating. Cities: Skylines is a pretty damn solid city builder, with some pretty damn solid DLC. Well, you can do that in all the good city builders anyway. Then if you get board you can also summon a giant chicken to come and stomp on it all. Micromanage all of the tiny details until you’ve created the city of your dreams. You can put lots of time and effort into constructing the perfect modern metropolis.

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