A cyberpunk city builder - Press Kit
Fact sheet
- Developer: Vittorio “LapsuS” Banfi, based in San Francisco, California (solo dev)
- Release date: Early Access, February 25th 2021
- Platforms: PC, Mac
- Website: https://skidcities.com
- Price: $19,99
- Availability: Digital Download on Steam
- Languages: English
- Press Contact: team@skidcities.com or vittorio.banfi[at]gmail.com
Description
Skid Cities is a cyberpunk city builder. Build incredibly high skyscrapers, face rogue androids, revolts, huge corporations and more. Build your city on top of your city or beneath it, deep underground. Dystopia or utopia, it’s up to you.
It’s a mashup of new and old! Old school-SimCity vibes will make experienced players feel at home. New, challenging mechanics will force you to rethink your assumptions about what a good society is - maybe that criminal-infested bar is not that bad for the city after all?
The year is 2092 and the world is very different from now. You can build your city in the cold lands of the Greenland Autonomous Zone, or the hot and arid plains of the Island of California.
If you love city builders, or if you are a fan of grit cyberpunk futures, this game is for you!
Features
- Fully 3D, isometric-like graphics with multiple weather and lighting settings
- Multiple levels building: build in the sky, on top of your city, and manage the interactions between different levels
- More than 120+ buildings will populate your city
- Pick one from 5 different world location, each with its own characteristic
- More than 15 unique events that will shake your city - rogue androids will escape, buildings will get squatted, and more
- 3 unique corporations may decide to join your city and change it - you can fight them, or embrace them
- 5 complete tutorials, from basic to advanced, to get you started
History
SkidCities has been developed by me, Vittorio “LapsuS” Banfi, as a solo-dev project for about a year. I love city-building games and the cyberpunk genre lore, from Blade Runner to Akira. A big part of the cyberpunk lore is about cities - so I kept thinking: Why isn’t a cyberpunk city builder out there? And here we are!
Videos
Release trailer Coming soon: (download)
Screenshots
Download all screenshots as zip (the zip contains much more art than contained in this page)
Key art and illustrations
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Logos/icons
Download all the logos/icons as a ZIP
Credits
Logo, 3D art, story, settings, code,music: Vittorio Banfi
Illustrations: Bea Banfi
Key artwork: Joshua Brockett