I bought Cities XL 2012 when it first came out. I didn't have a beast pc, just a basic office one from Wal-Mart. I used to play this for hours on end(lag only occuring past 15k population). After I changed accounts, I recently came back to my old account to find out I got the Platinum version for free, which was nice. In my eyes, XL Platinum is a very decent city building game. I mostly just play it with the KIWI MONEY BANK LITE mod so I can make my cities however I want without worrying about money. Sure the game has really bad optimization, I was always closing and restarting the game every half house because at least that made it less laggy. There's always mods for better roads/intersections/light effects.

Basically, I would recommend this game:
- if you just want to build a city without actually trying to manage it.
- if it is with mods
- if you don't care about restarting the game every 30 minutes to reduce lag
- just to ♥♥♥♥ around in.
You probably are better off buying Cities Skylines instead. I've yet to purchase it.

Not the best review but BUILD ON!

I bought Cities XL 2012 when it first came out. I didn't have a beast pc, just a basic office one from Wal-Mart. I used to play this for hours on end(lag only occuring past 15k population). After I changed accounts, I recently came back to my old account to find out I got the Platinum version for free, which was nice. In my eyes, XL Platinum is a very decent city building game. I mostly just play it with the KIWI MONEY BANK LITE mod so I can make my cities however I want without worrying about money. Sure the game has really bad optimization, I was always closing and restarting the game every half house because at least that made it less laggy. There's always mods for better roads/intersections/light effects. Basically, I would recommend this game: - if you just want to build a city without actually trying to manage it. - if it is with mods - if you don't care about restarting the game every 30 minutes to reduce lag - just to fvck around in. You probably are better off buying Cities Skylines instead. I've yet to purchase it. Not the best review but BUILD ON!