Cities Skylines Mods: Essential Enhancements for a Thriving Metropolis

Author: Emily Feb 20,2025

Enhance Your Cities: Skylines 2 Experience with These Top Mods!

Cities: Skylines 2 offers a fantastic base game, but modding significantly expands its replayability. Here are some of the best mods to boost your next playthrough.

Netlanes Walkways & Paths mod

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Netlanes Walkways & Paths: This cosmetic mod adds 73 netlanes for walkways, sidewalks, and more, injecting unique style and visual appeal into your cityscapes.

Waffle's Vibrant GShade/Reshade Preset

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Waffle’s Vibrant GShade/Reshade Preset: Liven up your city's visuals with this preset. It enhances vibrancy and color, also subtly adjusting the UI for improved readability, with in-game settings for customization.

Food and Beverages Decals Pack

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Food and Beverages Decals Pack: Add realism with over 170 decals from popular food and beverage brands, allowing for highly personalized city branding.

Better Bulldozer mod

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Better Bulldozer: Streamline city demolition. This mod simplifies and improves the bulldozing process. (Note: May require the Unified Icon Library mod.)

Find It mod

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Find It: Easily locate specific buildings and assets using convenient keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl+F for search, Ctrl+P for picker tool).

Extended Bus Station mod

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Extended Bus Station: Reduce traffic congestion by improving bus station functionality, taxi pickup points, and pedestrian pathways.

Traffic mod

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Traffic: Take control of traffic flow with tools like the Lane Connector Tool and Priorities Tool for customized intersection management.

First Person Camera Continued mod

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First Person Camera Continued: Immerse yourself in your city by exploring from a citizen's perspective, either freely or following vehicles.

Overground Parking By Dome mod

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Overground Parking By Dome: Solve parking shortages with expandable overground parking structures, including disabled parking and EV charging.

Population Rebalance mod

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Population Rebalance: Optimize population management by adjusting citizen lifecycles, addressing common imbalances.

This selection represents just a fraction of the available mods. Explore Nexus Mods and Paradox Mods for a wider range of options to further personalize your Cities: Skylines 2 experience.

Cities: Skylines 2 is available now on PC.