Cities: Skylines Plazas and Promenades Expansion is Coming Soon

Written by Brandon Hofer on August 22, 2022

News: Some new content for Paradox’s popular city builder is on the way where you can build your pedestrian paradise.

Paradox Interactive and Colossal Order have announced Plazas and Promenades, the next expansion for Cities: Skylines. This pedestrian-themed expansion will hit PC via Steam, PC via Epic Games Store, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 simultaneously at a suggested retail price of 14.99 USD / 12.99 GBP / 14.99 EUR.

With Cities: Skylines - Plazas and Promenades, players can build their dream on-foot experience as well as add different district options and city service buildings. Eliminate noise and air pollution and say hello to pedestrian streets, car-free areas, and modern plazas. Citizens will be thrilled to live in a walkable city.

Cities: Skylines - Plazas and Promenades key features:

Pedestrian Streets: Let your citizens walk freely on pedestrian-only streets. Place them in your city like any other road and create new green city centers free of most vehicles and pollution.

District Specialization: Three new district specializations have been added: offices, high-density residential areas, and high-density commercial zones. Setting a specialization on a district affects all zoned squares in that district that will spawn buildings with a different visual appearance and a gameplay effect. Each specialization features 24 new modern wall-to-wall buildings.

City Service Buildings: Service buildings are important, but how about awesome-looking service buildings? Connect them to pedestrian zones by matching their visual style and provide services that contribute to good happiness values.

Pedestrian Zones and New Policies: Activate three zone-specific policies for your city including:

Slow Driving: All roads in the pedestrian zone, except highways, get a speed limit of 20 miles/hour.

Sugar Ban: Increases the average lifespan of citizens in the pedestrian zone but decreases their happiness.

Street Music: Increases happiness and noise pollution in pedestrian commercial zones.

Accompanying the release of Plazas and Promenades are two content creator packs.

Inspired by the American design movement of the same name, “Mid-Century Modern” by REVO grants players sleek and stylish residential growable buildings.

Seaside Resorts” by Gèze brings the spirit of the classic seaside resort towns, boulevards, and piers that flourished in 19th century America to Cities: Skylines.

Additionally, there will also be two Radio Stations for aspiring architects: Paradise Radio and Shoreline Radio.
“Plazas and Promenades” Expansion, the two Content Creator packs, and the two Radio Stations will be available in the “Plazas and Promenades Bundle” at a 15% discount. No release date has been given for this new content, with Paradox only saying “soon”.

Check out the trailer below and then tell us what you think. Will you pick up the Plazas and Promenades content for Cities: Skylines?