Cities: Skylines is a game with a committed fanbase that creates some incredible cityscapes -- realistic or imagined. The game has many different DLCs to choose from with common updates for player to experience and enjoy. Their DLCs range in how much they affect the actual gameplay, but at least they all have new hats for Chirp.

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With each DLC comes a new set of changes and challenges for the player to experience as well as new maps to customize into a sprawling city, or a complete ghetto if that's what you prefer. Here are the ten best Cities: Skylines DLCs that add the most for the buck.

Updated on July 4, 2021, by Juliet Childers: With an always active modding community, Cities Skyline's developer Paradox Interactive keeps the content coming for the city-building game. Though some DLCs like the Natural Disasters update adds new mechanics, some just beautify or add quality-of-life upgrades. Which Cities Skylines DLCs should players get and why?

15 Cities: Skylines - Match Day (Stadiums)

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This one is a pretty consolidated DLC. It gives you the stadium as the big item and the rest of it is based on its customization and revenue spikes from sporting events.

Other than that, you get 16 new songs to play on the Cities: Skylines radio. It's a free DLC so the smaller scope is understandable as it affects the gameplay minimally. But you can't go wrong with something that's free and adds customization options.

14 Cities: Skylines - Concerts

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If you play the game without unlimited money, bringing in tourism is a great way to make some. More than that though, it lets players plan concerts, build and manage venues, and handle show lineups, too.

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Like Stadiums, the Concerts DLC adds one more layer of "life" to your city and the people in it. Of course, it can lead to hilarious traffic scenarios that are both frustrating and amusing.

13 Cities: Skylines - Deluxe Edition Upgrade

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This one essentially adds popular historic landmarks as well as 14 new songs. The Deluxe Edition Upgrade is really only good if you want to brag when your city becomes big and rich or simply enhance/ruin your city by placing an Eiffel Tower literally anywhere and everywhere you want.

These additions don't actually add a particular boost to the economy but they are visually appealing.

12 Cities: Skylines - Snowfall

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Snowfall essentially adds one snow-filled map to experiment with and experience the challenges of snowy terrain. The DLC includes lots of cold weather-related things such as trams, snowplow depots, and required heating infrastructure maintenance due to weather.

If you're the type of player who enjoys boundaries, the added cold temperature challenge is a refreshing addition. You'll have to watch your electricity consumption, manage snow plowers, and more.

11 Content Creator Pack: High-Tech Buildings

Cities Skylines High Tech Building DLC

Paradox Interactive, despite some company-side issues, continues to support the game's modding community. They even sanctioned a few mods as official DLCs such as this one: High-Tech Buildings.

The pack includes 10 new buildings and 5 city service buildings from the modder GCVos (Mauro Vos). Get futuristic with vertical farms, electric car factories, space shuttle launch sites, and more.

10 Cities: Skylines - Sunset Harbor

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Sunset Harbor provides new options for harbors and economic opportunities by the sea. The Aviation club lets civilians access personal airplanes. Intercity buses can also bridge separate towns for more commuting.

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Though many fans consider this DLC a bit uninspired, it also includes a commercial fishing industry that brings water treatment plants with it. How does private airplane use connect to commercial fisheries and intercity bus routes? Only Paradox knows the answer.

9 Cities: Skylines - Campus

Cities Skylines Campus DLC

Campus is a huge expansion on the school options in Cities: Skylines that gives you further customization of schools and universities. It also gives you access to new missions around scientific discoveries that go into your museum after they are funded and then achieved.

This DLC also adds varsity activities such as Track and Field and gives you rewards for when your team wins matches.

8 Cities: Skylines - Parklife

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Besides a slew of new textures and buildings, this Cities: Skylines DLC adds zoos, parks, and fairgrounds, making it similar to some zoo manager games out there - at least on a basic, surface level.

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As the mayor, you get added policies based on animal treatment, ticket prices, and recreational hazards. The DLC also adds the ability to put a park in usually undetectable open spaces between buildings so you can make your city look much better.

7 Content Creator Pack: European Suburbia

cities skylines European Suburbia

The game can get clowned on often for its somewhat forced use of roundabouts. But in the European Suburbia Content Creator Pack DLC, roundabouts are right at home.

The DLC introduces 80 residential buildings with props inspired by cities in countries all over Europe. Modder Avanya (Samantha Woods) created it to better simulate the quiet neighborhoods found in those countries.

6 Cities: Skylines - Mass Transit

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This update overhauls the transit system with many new means of transport and achievements based around them.

With blimps, monorails, and added bus options you have a lot more you can do with your city, even make monorail the main means of transport instead of roads for cars. Of course, each option can be heavily monetized for income for your beautiful city.

5 Cities: Skylines - Green Cities

Cities Skyline Green City DLC

This DLC adds 350 new assets for building your city and new eco-friendly aesthetic.

Many of the buildings would look great for a utopian city but combined with some of the other worldwide asset packs, this would be a great way to customize the exact look of your city and making it heavily culturally influenced.

4 Cities: Skylines - Industries

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Industries pretty much adds elements to Cities: Skylines that would be similar to Tropico and other industrial simulators, which changes the whole experience if you take that path for your city.

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This DLC adds so much it's easily one of the best available. There is so much content added that it can feel like a different game at times making for detailed managing of your industrial city with the whole pipeline being customizable. It even adds mail carriers as an added car and/or service in your city. Industries is easily one of the most essential content additions for anyone who plays Cities: Skylines.

3 Cities Skylines: Natural Disasters

Cities Skylines Natural Disaster DLC

This DLC changes the gameplay so much so that it now becomes a Doomsday preparation event simulator. It adds several active doomsday scenarios as well as a means to counter it such as evacuations and radio reports. It would be hard growing a bustling city when you have a meteor heading straight for your city, but then it is placed on you to help everyone survive.

Additionally, the accompanying Scenario Mode essentially lets you set your own goal on how to win the game, whether it's population size or income amount. This mode lets you concentrate on a goal and share it with Steam when you achieve it. It's a pretty essential part of gameplay and a good way to enjoy Cities: Skylines if you aren't too fond of Sandbox craziness and want some direction to follow.

2 Content Creator Pack: Train Stations

Cities Skylines Train Stations

Who doesn't love trains? BadPeanut created this official DLC mod that adds below-ground and elevated stations and some new mass transit additions.

Choose from several metro and train stations and expand your transportation network. These also match the Mass Transit and Sunset Harbor DLCs for consistency.

1 Cities: Skylines - After Dark

Cities Skylines After Dark

Next to the Natural Disasters DLC, After Dark is one of the best DLCs for people who want variety in their gameplay. The DLC allows commercial zones to remain open all day and night for added nightlife. The expansion also includes:

  • tourist specialization
  • leisure specialization
  • expanded city services

Basically, the DLC allows more nightlife, but also gives you the opportunity to monitor that activity, too. Airport, bus terminals, and cargo hubs also receive improvements.

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