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I wanted to play Cities but I can’t figure out what I’m doing. I start a new city and usually roads don’t quite work right so traffic never comes, I don’t understand how utilities work and they always show disconnected icons, sometimes I can get a little tiny town going and it quickly dies out from exhaustion of various resources.

I’d like to find a good tutorial on it, but it seems like one of those games that you either get it or you don’t, like Civ (also utterly failed to get anywhere in Civ 6 multiple times)



If you like longer videos with lots of explanations, this one covers most things. There's also further episodes that cover expanding and the DLC, but this first one will covers the main 80% of gameplay.

https://youtu.be/Iu8YwpngbzE

If you want a shorter "just tell me where things go at the start so I can copy it" this one is a strong and easy layout for a city

https://youtu.be/8FXyrf8dwVQ

Also I'd recommend playing a few cities with the unlimited money option enabled.




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