Skid Cities

“For the gameplay itself, there's a weird issue where things upgrade themselves automatically when combined with appropriate cyberpunk devices, but this also means if you run a too tight budget and try to move something elsewhere, you'll trigger a cascade where all the nearby items downgrade, causing income loss and forcing you to remove more until half your city is gone, yet maintenance costs remain too high.”

“While the game introduces a unique style and the underused mechanic of multiple Z-levels in city management, massive performance issues paired with little other innovation make this an enthusiast piece at best and a poor entry point to the genre.”

“The game's mechanics are in serious need of a revamp.”

“The graphics at standard level of quality look like something out of 2000-2001, and I have no idea why it runs so slowly and why it would even need 16 GB of RAM.”

“Plus, the graphics are pretty meh, bearing even less resemblance to the beautifully rendered publicity art for the project than is even the norm for other future-city computer games.”

“The game offers some okay-ish graphics, although some ugly glitches here and there; it is pleasant all the same.”

“There are some things that could be smoothed over (the overlay flickers, for example, when updating) and I wish the music was more varied, but it doesn't take away from the game.”

“There's some sort of progression bar, and the music is being worked on.”

“The soundtrack has notes of being a motivation to rise from ruins - it sounds both depressing and triumphal at the same time.”

“Things become sticky or unresponsive until the whole game eventually freezes completely, or you can't place or remove anything; reloading often gets stuck with a corrupted save.”

“Lag becomes a problem once your population reaches the mid tens of thousands. It is recommended not to turn on vehicles for longer than 5 minutes to avoid adding to lag. Sometimes certain UI functions stop working, requiring you to exit, save, and reload to fix it. Some functions are buggy, certain plots cannot be torn down due to glitches, and the button that clears obstructing buildings to reveal the floor grid malfunctions on higher street levels, removing bottom platforms in the process.”

“The game slows to a crawl at 50k population, causing random freezes during UI operations like placing a new road.”