Beginners Guide To How To Start in 2024 (Cities Skylines for New Players) 

The best takeaway you mentioned is not to overbuild in the beginning.

New to city builders, and i run into bankruptcy within 10 mins and this is helped ALOT! a great tutorial, thanks.

I just picked up this game on sale and was looking for a good tutorial. I really like the way you present stuff and have subscribed. Thanks for making this quality content.

Tried building it on console, works just about right. The only thing is that we don't have on land water treatment, so I set up a sewege pump on the edge of the river. (Make sure to check water flow's direction to not pollute your whole river with garbage!)

I bought a few games from Steam's recent management sale, but I forgot that I only have so many "spoons" available these days so I became overwhelmed quickly. This helped MASSIVELY. Thank you!

Makes sense! I once started a build where the city was so far away from the highway because I wanted it to be close to the waterfront. Needless to say the upkeep of the long roads heading into the city kept giving me cashflow issues in the start, and I used paved roads lol. I didn’t realize the water tower and on land water filtration were options from the start. That’ll save me a lot of time and money on my next build. Thanks for the great video!

Thank you! I played this game for the first time today and I needed help. It looks like a game that I will like. I’ll use this guide next time I play it.

I'm playing this on ps5 - the ps4 version of the game. I followed your video. The first time, I failed, but the second try saw my first milestone. My little town is running perfectly, and I'm just about to expand. Thank you so much for a wonderful series. I'm checking out more of your videos. 😊

Always struggeling with a start! Thanks for the help!

Thanks man helped out a lot I've been wanting to get into city skylines but couldn't get a good start the video really helped out

Awesome freaking video and an amazing start to the city. I very much appreciate you sharing your thoughts and experience with us. I can't wait to see what happens next. 🤟😲👍

For easier road upgrade later, you might want to leave one cell more space for the first block around your future arterial/collector roads, so you can expand them without losing zoning space. (Or you just unzone near them later, and have some park space.)

Yo, I have a question. So I'm basically new to the game and when you said I need inland water treatment, I went to the water section and I don't have the inland water treatment option. Anything else I can use instead of the inland water treatment?

Thanks I just started and I'm so bad. This was short and straight to the point

Just what I needed to for my new Airport DLC playthrough!

Very good video! Guy gets straight to the point and explains well throughout the video at a good pace!

Thank you for this much needed tutorial!😁

Thanks, when I started i actually got a terrible headache. Even though I've played building simulator games like this before but I've never had one this complicated. I got a neighborhood now

Thank you so much! I just started playing this because I was bored of repetitive action and adventure games. I tried it for the first time yesterday, the game's great but I keep getting into bankruptcy because I kept on overbuilding, and I don't know what to do.

I"ve tried playing Cities Skylines as it is an alternative to SimCity. I've fumbled around with a few games and never got to a stable place. This video has been a big help with interesting insights. Thank you.

Thanks! Finally figured out why in some cities my water is polluted and sometimes not.. ..also I realized I dont have to spend a fortune on major highways and round-a-bouts right off the bat

Thanks. This was really helpful. I appreciate it!

thank you I have been trying to start up for ages!

honestly i read the comments and thought “how good could this tutorial really be” lmao everyone was hyping it up ! i’m just glad it lived up to the hype. i never usually subscribe but damn you’ve earned it. hope you have a blessed day dear sir ❤️

This helped hugely, I was starting way to big was my problem..

Finally someone that explains each concept 😭 but thx alot for the vid

This was so helpful, thank you 💖

Thank you so much,Helped alot

a good guide and relaxing gameplay thank you

Thank you for this help I very much needed it😂😂

I definitely needed this. I played the hell out of Simcity back in the 1990s. I'd play at work when no one needed any tech support. Oh man, those were the days. We didn't even have the internet. We did have a 9600 baud modem though so I was all over the local BBS scheme. I probably downloaded Simcity from one of the warez sites. I did eventually buy the box copy because I wanted a sequel someday.

thanks so much helped out a ton

this help alot, since I have no idea what I'm doing, thanks for the guide!!

This video is super helpful! Massive thanks man

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Great vid, just didn’t know that there were dlc’s involved, because I don’t have that water treatment thing

Very good, thank you.

Very good serie of introduction of the game !!!!

Best beginner guide, now at 10k population. Thank you bro ❤️ it was super helpful

Thank you so much for this video!

You are my go to cities skylines guy on you tube. Thanks again. I'm from Manchester England and would love to see you build an English style town. Happy new year.

thank you czardus

Thanks. Very helpful

This video helped so much! Thank you!

hey thank you so much for this. I had to try it four times before I started getting income. but i did as you mentioned and not build a clinic and people started getting really sick really fast. and this was before i even started making positive income.

I'm jumping back into CS 1 and noticing I don't have the water treatment plant available from the start. This opening city still works though. Thank you!

Thank you!

Thank you for this....I really want to get into this game

is this considering the DLC's as well? I was going to pick up the full collection as I found a really good deal on it. been waiting to play this for a long time now.

Great vid! Thanks

This video help me a lot. Thanks!😁

Havent made it to the first milestone yet after hours, getting close after watching this

Can you tell me the song playing around 5:50? I really enjoy it. Thanks.

This is one of the best gaming guides I ever watched.

Great video!

omg i don't know why I didn't think of connecting the entrance and exit LOL! I am a beginner and, despite using paved roads and starting with wind turbines for energy, I somehow managed to get a really cramped and extremely prosperous city ( 1.5 million cash in bank and $13,000/ week income even with the funding for some services at 150%), but the entrance/exit are separate and look so weird..... traffic is a huge issue as well because those darn trucks! and i have shops sprinkles around residential areas. I did make separate entrances and exits closer to the industry but the idiots don't ever use them. Now I have to try these tips on a new save.

Very good video! Thank you❤❤

thx for the help i just started playing this game and I was struggling to figure out why my people are getting so sick it was the noise pollution and not zoning the different areas correctly so thx for the tips.

This video made me very good at this game, 58k in my city 👌

i dont know if my version is outdated or what not but i do not posses as much items that he can use in the water sections i don't have inland water treatment and what not only pumps waste and water towers until i get water treatment which i believe has to be waterside to work maybe i dont have as many expansions

Thank You! ❤

Got the game today, really helpful video

How did you undo? I make mistakes all the time and cant seem to undo them, like putting a building/road in the wrong place.

This helped soo much, thanks

I don't have the inland water treatment plant you select...is this an add on?

I'm a little confused on how the electric works. You only have the power poles going to the one residential section. Is it implied to run anywhere you have roads?

Very helpful video! Is there a part 2 where your going to continue on this map?

I have the base game, but don't have access to those same water options. Am I missing a certain DLC for that?

big help. thank you

Hello, I have a problem, I'm on epic games and when I enter the game and go to water, I don't see an additional option like you see water & sewage, how can I put it there?

Hi Cazrdus, I accidentally destroyed the entire road beginning of the city all the overbridge and the road. I don't know how to build everything now any help?

the in land water treatment is locked behind 16,000 pop, or maybe thats just on the Console version. Besides that, looks good thanks!

I was watching this video since I just started the game, and I was wondering how you got the Inland Water Treatment Plant because I don't actually see it in the game.

Ah I see, this looks great but- where did you get that water treatment thing? Can’t find it anywhere.

One problem if u are on Xbox do u still have the ability to place a in land treatment facility

Thanks!

anyone else also new that wants to start playing this to prepare for Cities Skylines 2? :D thanks for this video btw, its helping me and others out!

so would I just keep expanding in this way as I needed to add more? do you have any follow up videos?

Love it very helpful but an inland water plant isn't in the game u need the dlc pack I believe as well as why any beginners would have inland water plant

Thanks helped a lot

i tried it it works at the start so good I recommend it

I don’t have access to a water treatment plant in the beginning of the game, how should I modify

Great tutorial, Unfortunately it doesn't work very well if you don't have the DLC for the inland treatment plant, I've been following along and because I can't use the treatment plant im currently -5000

Thanks ❤

Very helpful! Total newbie here. I notice at least one major difference in my version compared to yours when trying to follow your steps. For whatever reason I don't have access to the Inland Water Treatment Plant or any water treatment plant of any kind. When I look at my water utility options I only have water pipes, water pumping stations, water towers and water drains available. There's an outline of a generic water treatment plant that it says I'll have access to when my city has 16K people. I only have the basic version of the game running on a M1 MacBook. Tons and tons of other questions, but why do you think I don't have access to any water treatment plants? Thank you!

Building roads at the beginning of the start is the biggest obstacle for me

Yo thanks for the tips im tired of restarting lol!

I play on switch and havent the Inland Water Treatment Plant what could i do insted

Thanks for this guide. I followed it but my residents were asking for sewage and i didnt see that on your video? I also dont have a water treatment plant.

How do yous switch tiles??? Like is this the only square you can build in?

Omg thanks so much i have made so much more progress

I was following this tutorial on Xbox series x and when you got to the water treatment plant I couldn’t go any further because I didn’t have an option for one until population of 16,000

Man Can someone help with the inland water treatment plant ? Is that dlc or mod cus I can’t find it in the workshop so guessing it’s dlc ? It’s not in my game ? Edit: sunset harbour dlc. Found it.

i dont have a inland water treatment plant unlocked. what do i use for water now?

I just started playing the game (finally after years of it sitting in my library), I don't have any water treatment plant options. The only one I see is the one that gets unlocked when the population reaches 16k.

Why did you only make one video for this? I have been looking at your videos and this is the only one you made. Is there no playlist for this? I wanted to see more of this.

this was so helpful until today I have always played city as sanbox with unlimited money and therefore had never had to think about proper city building at the begining xD

i dont have the the water treatment thingy what do i do instead

How did you get the inland water power plant what DLC did you buy??

I don't have that sewage treatment yet, and need to make the long and expensive pipe to the river