Cities: Skylines gets some competition from new city-builder City Masterplan

Cities: Skylines series might finally have a rival. 1:1 Studio has announced its debut title, City Masterplan, a city-builder focused on 1:1 scale construction across 24x24km maps. The game is currently listed on Steam without a release date, but we know it's built on Unreal Engine 5.

Unlike most city-builders, City Masterplan will move away from traditional grid-based construction, allowing players to place roads and buildings without rigid constraints. Also, the developer promises a realistic traffic simulation and supply chains, a dynamic environment system, various architectural styles complemented by advanced PCG (Procedural Content Generation) technology, and iconic buildings with real dimensions.

The system requirements published on the game's store page are quite high, but not completely surprising for a city-builder such as this. Minimum specifications for processor and GPU are currently listed as “Pending”, but it's known that you'll need at least 16GB of memory and 60GB of storage. As for the recommended requirements, it states 32GB of RAM, an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 or an AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT, and an AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D or an Intel Core i7-12700K.

The game's release date hasn't been announced yet, but those interested can wishlist it on Steam.

KitGuru says: Are you a fan of city-builders? Do you think City Masterplan can dethrone Cities: Skylines as the latter did to SimCity?

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