Well done !! 3

I say about SimCity nothing. The issue we've been through. I am sure that any EA games is watching like a hawk and never anything will blind buy.
Now we have Cities Skylines here. One wonders now and again. Who invented it? But also could not care less. Man builds his city according to your mood. Here is actually simulated. The inhabitants go to their home to their workplace to their store. Running through the area. Benefits and trains, etc. Everything just great.
There are milestones which can be reached and thus features are unlocked. Example: Fire, wider roads. More or less useful is you can be as a city manager and mayor. One can designate neighborhoods and enforce certain guidelines in these are released also depending on milestone. eg saving electricity.
At last you can sometimes leave a bit of space to plan ahead before and later insert any city highways for tear can be painful. So it went to me at least.
One can expand his country. This is one of the major pluses of the Games. Up to one million citizens may have the city (lt. Manufacturer). I am far from being in the initial phase. But OK. You can learn every time you restart it and keeps getting better. Soon you can go out by skillfully setting roundabouts and one-way streets to gridlock long and have happy and healthy citizens.
The Pops but as is so often the community. The ability to add mods. Currently these are lt. Steam for example more than 7000 buildings that were partly lovingly designed and can be easily inserted. Also aids such as Autoabreißen of empty buildings or a better overview of its own railway lines are possible. So you will always be surprised by the Steam Workshop in which one finds beautiful things and can insert into his own city. But not only that Colossal Order. Has relatively simple tools introduced for people new to mod to change buildings to create landscapes and easy to make one's own city to design great for yourself.
To me before game of the year (so far). 5 points. Buy recommendation. Rarely has one better invested 20 euros.