Cities: Skylines

Raised as a usability problem by 10 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2015–2023), in 9 threads.

People raised many different problems with Cities: Skylines, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 10 complaints

Defaults to high 4K settings, making it unplayable until the user manually lowers them2023-10-27
Default resolution and anti-aliasing settings look bad, requiring manual fiddling to fix2023-10-26
Zoning is too rigid; can't easily mix uses or separate zones2023-03-07
Drawing and modifying bus routes is hard and frustrating to do2023-03-07
Clunky interactions and awkward visual hierarchy make the game hard to use2023-03-06
Roads don't work right, utilities show disconnected, and the player can't understand how to build a working city2022-09-13
Must navigate tedious mod management and fix broken mods to play properly2020-08-30
Agreement dialog renders mostly off screen and ignores keyboard input, blocking install2019-07-17
Players must design cities awkwardly around independent-sim quirks, counterintuitively2018-02-05
Road placement tools feel floaty, causing frustration when building roads2015-05-09