The World Tour in Cities: Skylines is about to come to a close with the release of the Hotels & Retreats mini-expansion. This one allows players to build tourist and vacation hotspots, adding the hotel management element. Hotels & Retreats is available for $7.99, with a bundle also offered at $29.99 which has Hotels & Retreats and three other creator packs.
Colossal Order CEO Mariina Hallikainen shared that looking back on this journey, it's clear that Cities: Skylines is now more than just a game. She went on to say that this new mini-expansion is the last one for the game and celebrates its legacy by offering players new ways to express their creativity.
Here are some of the features of Hotels & Retreats:
- Hotel Buildings
- Hostels, cabins, hotels, and luxurious resorts.
- Add a series of hotel buildings to the city on a range of budgets.
- Hotel Management
- Start with one-star hotels and unlock new options as business revenue and popularity booms.
- Tourism Buildings
- New structures support hotels like parks, restaurants, playgrounds, and cafès.
- Location
- Matching hotels with good locations is going to be paramount as differing locations attract different tourist groups.
- Five new maps added for hotels:
- 3 European-inspired maps
- 1 tropical map
- 1 temperate map
Creator Packs
Launching alongside the expansion as these content creator packs:
- Industrial Evolution (from Community Creator Samantha "Avanya" Woods)
- Walk the path of history with "Industrial Evolution."
- Includes a new set of growable buildings that span different eras of industrial building styles, from red brick walls to modern, sleek industrial complexes.
- Includes a total of 70 new buildings inspired by both historic and contemporary industrial buildings.
- Railroads of Japan (from Content Creator Ryuichi Kaminogi)
- Fun discoveries await with Railroads of Japan adding authentic Japanese railroad scenery to the game, including stations, trains, and buses.
- See citizens travel using the metro, bus, and railroad.
- Decorate commutes with networks, props, and police stations.
- Brooklyn & Queens (from Content Creator Prosper)
- A set of medium-rise high-density residential buildings and props inspired by the neighborhoods of Brooklyn and Queens for decorating the city's facade and rooftops.
- Includes more than 60 growable buildings and props, such as rental signs, window air conditioners, exhaust fans, and stairways.
Cities: Skylines is available on PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Nintendo Switch.
