Over three years ago, Cities: Skylines launched, and while we put up a list of must-have mods for the game at the time, a lot has changed in three years.

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Some of the essential mods, like unlimited ore and oil, have been built into the game itself as menu options choose-able at the beginning of gameplay.

Others, like some of the anti-crash and performance mods, found themselves incorporated into patches as the devs had a “why didn't we think of that?” moment when someone showed up their QA team.

And still others, like Improved Public Transit, were effectively rendered obsolete when those options showed up in DLC packs, most notably the Mass Transit expansion. And the official ones are far better (and more compatible!) than downloading a mod, so if you care about that stuff, just buy Mass Transit.

That said, the Steam Workshop is chock-full of great mods, and I'm going to mainly focus on the ones that make gameplay tweaks rather than purely cosmetic additions (content packs are great, of course, but they're not really “must-have.”)

As far as I've been able to gather, these all work with Industries, but as always with modding your game, these aren't officially supported, so if you install a mod and it breaks your game, you're on your own.

Industries Vehicle Converter

This is a nice little cleanup mod to make sure that if you're putting Industries on top of an existing city that all your vehicles come along for the ride and work with the DLC's systems.

Note that you'll need the Prefab Hook mod if you want this one to work.

Total Autobudget

Takes all the micromanagement out of making sure you have enough money allocated toward making sure the city gets the resources it needs.

Great for making sure that no excess production ends up wasted (and costing money) and likewise is a lifesaver if you're using the day/night cycle or the resource-demand systems in the After Dark or Snowfall DLC.

This is a great headache reducer.

TrafficManager

One of the best mods out there for traffic management, the newest version of the download now includes support for the vehicles and game mechanics in Industries.

Basically, this prevents those nasty traffic jams that come from AI-controlled cars not selecting lanes properly on multiple-lane roads, allows user-controlled speed limits on streets and highways, makes traffic lights make a lot more sense in terms of the relative timing for each side of a crossing, and even includes a nuclear option to just get rid of traffic entirely if the AI has made such a hash of it that there's no bringing it back through no fault (or entirely through the fault!) of the player.

If you find yourself as angry at traffic as a Seattle pedestrian, this is the mod for you.

Automatic Bulldoze (Industries Edition)

Tired of having to manually clear abandoned buildings once whatever the problem it is that spawned them gets solved, and don't want to wait for the game to wise up and make use of the building space again?

Install this handy mod and watch as no blight goes un-renewed. This will get rid of those pesky blighted buildings in a hurry so your city can get back to growing and thriving.

Or, y'know, spawning another abandoned building because you didn't solve the underlying resource problem, but hey, it's automatic, you can mess up to your heart's content!

Fallout 4 Lynda Carter Music Mod

OK, this is just here because I am an absolutely shameless Fallout fanboy. Don't believe me? Go read my review of Parklife.

Just because you're nowhere near Goodneighbor doesn't mean you shouldn't be able to hear the music, right?

Don't forget to install the CSL Music Mod in order to be able to use this one.

Fallout: New Vegas Music Mod

Look, I told you, I'm a Fallout freak. So sue me. Same advisory applies as the Fallout 4 music, make sure you get CSL Music for this.

Mod Achievement Enabler

For obvious reasons, you'll want this one if you play with mods. Making your game better shouldn't lock you out from getting those spiffy little notes congratulating you on your progress..well, unless you're using cheat mods, in which case, you filthy cheater.

But seriously, this mod is essential to preventing a minor tweak or bug fix from marking you like you're using cheat codes.

Remove Need For Power Lines

Tired of having to mess around with bulldozing power lines, cutting power to large swaths of the city, just because you're expanding in a direction those lines occupied?

Or maybe you just want to automate another part of the process that's more about micromanagement than strategy.

If that sounds like you, then this mod is for you.

There's another one that does the same thing for pipes, but pipes aren't intrusive in the above-ground portion of the game world. Power line interruptions break realism during construction, so this mod proves exceptionally useful.

Rain Firefighting

A nice realism mod, since Mother Nature often does what firefighters tap a hydrant in order to do, and she shows up without you even needing to dial 911.

Common sense mods are always nice in video games, and this is no exception.

And like in real life, if there's a fire blazing so far out of control that it's going to take more than a little drizzle to put it out, nature alone isn't going to cut it, so don't neglect your fire services.

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Parkify

Why should park buildings be excluded from city parks? It doesn't make a whole lot of sense, does it?

Well, if you've got Parklife installed and want to create parks that aren't limited to Parklife-exclusive recreation buildings, this is the mod for you.

Makes Parklife much more immersive and convenient and helps solve the problem where regular park buildings are often more efficient than using Parklife's mechanics to create city beautification.

Essential if you have that DLC.

Control Building Level-Up

You know that problem you run into where the game tries to level a building up before you're ready for it?

You know how that's especially annoying when your city is too small for the advanced services that high-level commercial and industrial buildings require, but the game wants to level you up to them? Then you get abandoned buildings for lack of educated workers?

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Yeah, you can lick that problem with this mod. It's officially updated for Parklife but should work just fine with Industries.

Employ Overeducated Workers

This is the Newton's Third Law equal and opposite reaction; you have great city services, but someone ultimately has to do the grunt work.

You can just pretend these are the interpretive dance majors and the people who burned out and became video game writers with accounting degrees and the people who tried their best to find good work but ended up stuck in retail because they couldn't network.

Point is, a lot of people work jobs they're overqualified for in the real world. Now they can do it in Skylines too. So you can condemn your citizens to menial, soul-destroying, dream-crushing labor.

You monster.

In Summary..

No matter what mods you like to use, you'll find something in the Steam Workshop. And even if you prefer vanilla, there's nothing wrong with that either—but it's hard to imagine, once you've seen how a good mod can improve your experience, how you'd want to play without it.

And besides, Cities: Skylines with Fallout music is like a Reese's Cup of great tastes that go great together.

Happy modding!

Cities: Skylines is a prospective civil engineer’s dream come true. It’s been a staple city-builder for a few years now, and in that time the modding community has turned its sharp eyes and impressive creativity to the city builder and management sim in a big way. Today, there are literally thousands and thousands of Cities: Skylines mods available on the game’s Steam Workshop page, which makes it understandably daunting to find the best ones.
Luckily, you have us. We’ve gone ahead and handpicked a suite of the best Cities: Skylines mods that will make any city better and help you manage your citizens efficiently. Below you’ll find a mixture of purely aesthetic mods, and quality of life tools that will make managing, creating, and destroying a breeze. Turns out there’s quite a lot you can do with the mod tools for this building game, including killing
No matter if you’re a casual builder or a hardcore city planner, you’re sure to find something appropriate in our Cities: Skylines mod list. So, without any more preamble, here are the best mods for Cities: Skylines.

Electric Roads

Providing your city with power is an essential step to growth, and is often a foundational aspect of your infrastructure. The most common method to spread power – at least at first – is through the use of unsightly power lines. The Electric Roads mod allows you to ditch the power poles by making the roads themselves a conductor. It’s a brilliant quality of life mod that keeps your city beautiful and powered all at once.

Loading Screen Mod

As far as quality of life mods go, the Loading Screen Mod is dang near essential. Most notably, it cuts down load times significantly. Installing several mods can bog down the game’s performance, but with the use of the Loading Screen Mod allows you can automatically load the assets present in your city. Many users have reported load times much faster than the base game’s notoriously slow load time, which makes this mod a fantastic addition to your arsenal.

Roundabout Builder

Traffic management is one of Cities: Skyline’s paramount challenges. Maintaining smooth flow through the use of one way streets and freeway connections is almost a puzzle game in itself. Roundabouts are a fantastic way to alleviate heavy traffic, and this Roundabout Builder mod makes building them a breeze. A simple press of CTRL+O and all your traffic-related headaches will disappear.

Bulldoze It!

Sometimes buildings burn down, or are abandoned, or otherwise become unsightly and undesirable. With Bulldoze It!, these buildings are automatically removed from the city without having to manually delete them yourself. It’s a great quality of life mod that lets you direct your focus to something other than abandoned buildings.

The Agricultural Field Collection

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If Cities: Skylines isn’t agricultural enough for you, take a look at this Agricultural Field Collection mod collection’s suite of fields. There are five different fields to choose from, each lending a quaint countryside feel to your city. They don’t require any upkeep, and don’t attract any visitors – these are strictly visual eye candy meant to give some color to otherwise metropolitan cities.

More Beautification

For those among us with an eye for detail, the More Beautification mod by modding all-star BloodyPenguin is an absolute boon. Snap satellite dishes to the roofs of houses, billboards to the side of buildings, ventilation systems atop industrial buildings, and much more. More Beautification is a perfect way to add a personal touch to your city and tidy away any clutter.

Quad

Are you bored by a dumb ol’ regular city? Do you yearn for the dystopian skyline of Blade Runner? Download the Quad collection and your city will leap straight into the future. The collection also includes many modern buildings, but who wants to mess with those when you can have a near-future Los Angeles?

81 Tiles

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If you’re looking to expand beyond the 25 tiles the base game allocates to you, then check out this 81 Tiles mod. You’ll be able to unlock 81 tiles of a map, allowing you to build in any direction from the get-go. Keep in mind that this is an absolutely enormous area to cover, but a canvas that big is sure to produce some incredible art.

Timboh’s Marvelous Interchange Emporium

Once your city grows large enough, you’re eventually going to have to address freeway connections and how they move drivers in and out of the city. Timboh’s Interchange Emporium comes complete with a host of prefabricated freeway interchanges, all based on real-life examples. Clovermills, turbines, diverging windmills – this Cities: Skylines mod collection has it all. The best part is that not only are the interchanges very efficient, they’re a ton of fun to look at.

Canal Blocks

In vanilla Cities: Skylines, building a canal involves a great deal of terraforming and careful planning. With the Canal Blocks mod, though, putting together a canal network is a snap, literally. The collection includes a ton of different canal shapes and sizes that you can use to increase the value of adjacent homes – ideal for your Venice Beach or Amsterdam recreations.

Ultimate Skyscraper Collection by various

Have you ever wanted to add Die Hard’s Nakatomi Plaza to your city? How about the Avengers Tower? Now you can as this Ultimate Skyscraper collection gives you access to a host of skyscrapers that put the skyline in Cities Skylines mods. It’s not just fictional buildings either: real-world locations like Sears Tower and Seattle’s Space Needle can be found in this impressive collection.

Real World Locations

The beauty of the modding community surrounding Cities: Skylines is its diversity. There are a ton of collections and mods that allow you to build based on your preference of architecture and your favorite cities worldwide. With these mods you can model your city after Brooklyn, France, Russia, Central Europe, China, Japan, and more. The creativity of the Cities: Skylines player base is truly staggering.

Advanced road anarchy

Roads and complex traffic solutions are great and all, but have you ever created a loop-the-loop highway that towers above your city? The Road Anarchy and Advanced Road Anarchy mods let you throw physics to the wind and create the roadways of your dreams.

chirpy exterminator

This Chirpy Exterminator mod does so little, but changes so much. As the author puts it, Chirpy Exterminator “gets rid of Chirpy, the bird we all love to hate”. Alternatively, you can make Chirpy a little more useful by modding it so it reads out all the latest from your favourite subreddit.

Real World Cities Maps

Think you can do better than the real-world city planners of yore? This collection of Real World Cities Maps lets you try your hand at redesigning one of hundreds of real cities, from Ancona,Italy to Zakopane, Poland.

Zion

This this Zion mod is based on Zion National Park and challenges you to deface, debase, and disgrace one of the world’s natural treasures by turning it into a functioning city. With steep mountains, seasonal water flow changes, and very little flat ground this is no mean feat.

Mission to Mars

You can either play this map as a scenario, where you’ll need to develop a human colony on the red planet and a space elevator, or you can just download the Mission to Mars mod as a map and enjoy all your usual city planning deeds in an extraterrestrial setting.

Skyrim Map

If it’s a fictional setting you’re after, then why not try to build your dream city on Skyrim’s map with the Skyrim Map mod? We always felt that Whiterun could be improved by a spaghetti junction or landfill site.
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What we’ve listed here is just a small sampling of the thousands of mods available on the Steam Workshop. By no means is this list defninitive or exhaustive, just what we like to play with ourselves. Browsing the Workshop is a ton of fun, and you never know when you might discover inspiration for your next city.