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Citybuilding spin-off Cities: VR will launch on April 28thWhat if Godzilla was mayor?

What if Godzilla was mayor?

A screenshot of Cities: VR, a spin-off from Cities Skylines, showing a road being drawn using a VR wand.

Squatting among the cityscapes of Google Earth remains one of virtual reality’s best experiences, and so there’s an instant appeal in being able to build the cityscape yourself.Cities: VRaims to allow that as a spin-off fromCities: Skylines, and we now know it’ll launch exclusively for the Meta Quest 2 on April 28th. There’s a new video below, offering a look at how it all works.

Cities: VR | Gameplay Walkthrough (Meta Quest 2)Watch on YouTube

Cities: VR | Gameplay Walkthrough (Meta Quest 2)

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Instead, Cities: VR offers the fundamentals of laying down roads, painting zoning districts, and adjusting taxes. What it adds is the ability to do those things while walking around your city like the world’s biggest mayor. As mentioned above, I like the idea of being able to crouch down and peer at all the buses and pedestrians scurrying around beneath me.

Whether that’s enough to compensate for a more stripped-down citybuilder after the initial novelty wears off, I don’t know. I’m also a little disappointed that the interface looks like a set of regular 2D menus you pop up over the world, rather than a more visual, VR-friendly display.