Playing as the mayor of your city you'll be faced with balancing essential requirements such as education, water electricity, police, fire fighting, healthcare, and much more along with your city's real economy system. Citizens within your city react fluidly, with gravitas, and with an air of authenticity to a multitude of gameplay scenarios. Build the city of your dreams: Bring on a smog-filled industrial revolution or create a quiet beach town ideal for tourists powered by renewable energy. Build it your way! Multi-tiered and challenging simulation: Playing as the mayor of your city, you'll be faced with balancing essential requirements such as education, water electricity, and much more, along with your city's economy. Extensive local traffic simulation: Managing traffic and the needs of your citizens to work and play will require the use of several interactive transport systems. Districts and Policies: Be more than just another city hall official! Create a car-free downtown area, assign free public transport to your waterfront, or ban pets in suburbia. After Dark included: Watch your city become an entirely different place at night: a day-night cycle will have your citizens seeking out places to unwind after work. Parklife is a playful new expansion, making your city more alive with new amusement parks, nature reserves, city parks, and zoos, and giving new life to your empty land with custom parks and gardens. Parklife adds new ways to play, with the introduction of a new park area tool and level-up features that increase your park's property values, along with five new maps and a ton of assets in play.