LEGO Skylines is finally official, giving Paradox Interactive’s city-building formula a much more colorful makeover. The newly announced game is all about building and managing your own LEGO city, with plenty of freedom to make it as practical or ridiculous as you want. It comes from Iceflake Studios, the team that took over development of Cities: Skylines II, and will be published by Paradox Interactive.
As you’d expect, building the city is only part of the job. Players will have to make sure citizens have electricity, food, water, housing, and jobs while also providing services like hospitals, garbage collection, and sewage. You can then fill everything in with parks, decorations, and, apparently, enough donut shops to ensure nobody goes hungry.
There’s also a pretty heavy emphasis on customization rather than simply dropping predetermined buildings onto a map. LEGO Skylines promises an “absurd” number of buildings and decorations, with players encouraged to tweak their cities until everything is exactly where they want it. That seems like a natural fit for LEGO, especially when the whole point of a city builder is already to obsess over where everything goes.
