The Campus expansion for Cities: Skylines is officially live. In addition to new maps, the expansion brings with it new university area types, reputation buildings, Academic Works, new varsity sports arenas, unique faculties, new policies, and achievements.
Key features of the Campus expansion include:
- Degrees of Freedom - Design your own campus based on three area types - Trade School, Liberal Arts College and University. Increase reputation by attracting students and creating Academic Works to unlocking new buildings!
- Var-City Sports - Bring college sports to your city by building football, basketball, baseball, track & field, and swimming arenas. Manage your teams, hire coaches, sell tickets -- and collect prizes for winning matches! Customize your teams with unique jerseys and increase their chances of winning with cheerleaders and coaches.
- Syllabuster - Employ seven new policies including book fairs and for-profit education. Sponsor academic works by handing out research grants and supporting the staff.
- We Fancy - Display your scientific achievements in Museums.
- Cheers! - Celebrate with your citizens during graduation ceremonies.
- Ludocartography 101 - Five new maps for your building pleasure.
- Three New Chirper Hats - Be the big chirp on campus!
- Two new radio stations - Deep Focus and Campus Rock.
- Content Creator Pack - University City
The latest expansion also adds new library buildings, a new yellow school bus, job titles in the citizen info panel, and new industry policies.
Sandra Neudinger, the Cities: Skylines Product Manager at Paradox Interactive, revealed that the Campus expansion offers new ways for players to interact with the education system in the game. Expanding the current systems has always been the goal, she added in a press statement, and this expansion "brings life to one important aspect of city-building together with a wealth of new content that our community has been asking for a while now."
The Cities: Skylines Campus expansion is available for $12.99
Cities: Skylines is a single-player open-ended city-building simulation. The game has players take part in urban planning by controlling the zoning, taxation, road placement, public services, and public transportation of a particular area. In developing their city, players need to consider as well the different elements like budget, employment, health, and even the pollution levels.
Since the initial launch, a total of 10 expansions have been released, the latest of which is Campus.
