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Cities: Skylines' next major DLC will let you build and manage better airportsIt’ll take off in January

It’ll take off in January

A screenshot of Cities: Skylines Airports DLC< showing a jet flying low over a glittering city at night.

I always liked the idea that a citybuilder eventually comes to contain several other management games within it.Cities: Skylinestakes another step in that direction with its next DLC, which will let you construct sprawling airports when it takes flight in January.

Here’s the announcement trailer:

Cities: Skylines Airports DLC | Coming January 25, 2022 | Official Announcement TrailerWatch on YouTube

Cities: Skylines Airports DLC | Coming January 25, 2022 | Official Announcement Trailer

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The DLC lets you construct modular airport buildings, clicking terminals together and connecting buildings via “concourse networks” according tothe Paradox website. You set the ticket prices, and you’ll unlock new airport buildings to construct depending on the overall success of the airport.

Cities: Skylines Airports will launch next year on January 25th and will cost $13. As with all Cities: Skylines DLC, it makes me wonder whether Colossal Order are satisfied, having released nothing but DLC for the past six years, or whether Skylines' juggernaut success has imprisoned them. It is, at least, an excellent juggernaut, and lives on both our bestmanagement gamesandbuilding gameslists.

The reveal of Airports comes a week after the announcement of VR spin-offCities: VR, from a different developer.