It goes without saying that you don't want to put your sewage pipe upstream of where you're sucking the water out from, lest you end up with some funny tasting water, and a lot of ill citizens - but if you chose a seaside map like we did, making sure the two are far enough away from each other can be trickier than you'd think. Getting water into your town is a simple case of plonking a water pump somewhere near a clear patch of water - but figuring out where to let the sewage run into is another case entirely. As you'd also possibly expect, there's more to this than you might imagine. One of the first things you'll need to do is ensure your town has a clean supply of water, somewhere to store/deposit its sewage, and enough power to keep the TVs on late into the night. You get to watch buildings pop up - and best of all, they all have names, too. From low density housing to industrial factories, if you mark it (and you make your city attractive enough) companies will come and fill the space, and you'll start to have the seeds of your very own city.

Every road you place has a number of squares running alongside it, which you can 'paint' a certain colour, in turn determining what types of buildings can be built there. Rather than getting to plonk the houses down yourself, Cities Skylines' zone system instead leaves it to the free market. With some nice chap having built a motorway that happens to stop right at the very end of your territory, all you really have to do is lead a few roads away from it, and start marking out 'zones' where people can build houses, factories, office spaces, and other essential buildings to keep your city rolling. A city builder in the vein of Sim City, Cities Skylines starts you out with a barren expanse of land, and a fat wodge of cash in your bank, before asking you to build a civilisation out of nothing. Cities Skylines is actually a lot more forgiving than we've just made out - and, for a game that requires you to keep so many plates spinning, it's a lot easier to pick up and play than you might expect.

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