Aerial view of Otsu with forested mountains behind the city

· Legacy content · 2020–2023

Legacy · Cities: Skylines 1

153 videos: 5 series, 16 tutorials and 3 one-offs. Kept online as the channel's archive.

Namito Yokota · Unsplash License · Unsplash

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Written guides

Every Cities: Skylines tutorial as its own page — steps, tools, chapters and FAQ. Most-watched first.

CS1Legacy

Guide · CS1

81 Tiles in Cities: Skylines — how to use the full map

Unlock all 81 tiles in Cities: Skylines with the 81 Tiles mod: what it does, how to install it, what to watch out for, and the CS2 equivalent.

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Guide · CS1

Realistic Population Revisited — realistic citizen numbers in Cities: Skylines

Why vanilla Cities: Skylines undercounts residents and jobs, how the Realistic Population Revisited mod fixes it, and how to add it without breaking your city.

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Guide · CS1

Map overlays in Cities: Skylines — use real street maps in the Map Editor

How to overlay your Cities: Skylines terrain with a real street map from Google, Bing, Apple or OpenStreetMap, stitched to scale and loaded with Overlayer 2.

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Guide · CS1

Custom highway signs in Cities: Skylines — your own text with Procedural Objects

Add custom text to highway signs in Cities: Skylines: gantry and sign assets, Find It, Move It and converting the sign into a Procedural Object.

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Guide · CS1

Realistic maps in Cities: Skylines — from real terrain to a street overlay

The complete workflow for realistic maps in Cities: Skylines: real heightmaps from terrain.party, a Google Maps street overlay, water areas and the Map Editor.

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Guide · CS1

Commercial and office specialisation in Cities: Skylines — set up districts

How to set up commercial and office specialisations in Cities: Skylines: paint districts, pick the specialisation, run the game and check pollution and demand.

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Guide · CS1

Realistic heightmaps for Cities: Skylines — real terrain from terrain.party

Make realistic heightmaps for Cities: Skylines: real terrain from terrain.party, the best data set, a clean PNG and smoothing in the Map Editor.

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Guide · CS1

Parking lots in Cities: Skylines — the Parking Lot mod with service roads

Build working parking lots in Cities: Skylines with the Parking Lot mod: service roads, space sizes, Move It fixes and TM:PE parking bans.

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Guide · CS1

Hotels in Cities: Skylines — the tourism specialisation from After Dark

Get hotels, souvenir shops and cafés in Cities: Skylines without mods: the After Dark tourism specialisation and the workers it needs.

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Guide · CS1

Industrial specialisation in Cities: Skylines — farming, forestry, oil and ore

The industrial specialisations in Cities: Skylines — farming, forestry, oil, ore and generic industry — set up, run and compared on pollution.

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Guide · CS1

Parallel roads in Cities: Skylines — the Network Multitool

Build parallel roads in Cities: Skylines with the Network Multitool: UnifiedUI, the parallel road function, key bindings and Basic vs Ground.

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Guide · CS1

Faster map overlays for Cities: Skylines — one screenshot instead of many

Faster street map overlays for Cities: Skylines: one styled Google map capture, scaled to your heightmap — plus an easy water selection.

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Guide · CS1

Prop Line Tool in Cities: Skylines — trees along lines, curves and circles

How to use the Prop Line Tool in Cities: Skylines to line trees and props along roads, curved alleys and circles around roundabouts.

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Guide · CS1

Tourist districts in Cities: Skylines — a quick hotel setup

Hotel districts in Cities: Skylines step by step: prepare the roads, zone a district, choose the tourist specialisation and speed up growth.

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Guide · CS1

Cities: Skylines mods — the full mod stack explained

A guide to the Cities: Skylines mods used for the Springvalley series: what each mod does, why it's in the stack, with chapters and Workshop links.

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Guide · CS1

Cinematic camera in Cities: Skylines — smooth city videos with waypoints

How to make smooth videos of your city with the Cinematic Camera Extended mod in Cities: Skylines: waypoints, recapturing, playing and saving camera paths.

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Tutorials & one-offs

Sorted by popularity. Tutorials open their written guide; everything else opens on YouTube.