What we've been playing
3rd November, 2023
Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we’ve found ourselves playing over the last few days. This time: The Simpsons, dressing up as a cleric, and city building.
If you fancy catching up on some of the older editions of What We’ve Been Playing, here’s our archive.
Cities Skylines 2, PC
I didn’t play much of the original Cities Skylines, much to my regret, but I am a sucker for city-building games. To me, the idea of waking up at the weekend to lazily map out a new city – while still in my pyjamas and sipping coffee – is the stuff dreams are made of. So last weekend I did exactly that.
A few things struck me. The first was how convenient it is to have roads serve as the conduits for water, electricity and sewage in the game! I’m exclaiming because I’ve never seen this before and it’s so simple yet so helpful. It means if you connect a building to a road, you also connect it to delivery of those essential things. There’s no faffing around connecting pipes and wires every time you want to expand a neighbourhood.
