Cities: Skylines II’s second Expansion Pass is out now
Iceflake Studios has released its first Expansion Pass for the city builder at £37.99, with the Park Adventures expansion, three creator packs and a new radio station still to come before summer 2027.
Cities: Skylines II has a second Expansion Pass, and it is Iceflake Studios’ first. The pass went live on 15 September at £37.99 for seven pieces of content landing between now and summer 2027, and it arrived alongside patch 1.6.2f1, which the studio calls Autumn Breeze.
What the pass contains
Pass holders get the Downtown Market Set immediately, an instant unlock built around repurposed shipping containers, food trucks and eateries on wheels, together with the Emerald Estuary map and a Scottish-inspired temperate map with lochs, rivers and ruins. Park Adventures follows later this year and is the one most players have been waiting for: parks, zoo enclosures and animals, nature reserves and amusement park rides spread across more than 100 new assets, with new maps and a free update for every player at the same time. Three creator packs and a new radio station complete the pass, and the first of those packs, Arthaix’s First Response, expands the fire, police and healthcare services.
Autumn Breeze fixes the boring bits
Patch 1.6.2f1 is a quality-of-life pass rather than a feature drop. Garbage trucks now reserve capacity for their intended destination instead of filling up on the way, citizen happiness, shopping and leisure choices run off income rather than wealth, and companies producing the resources a city most needs get priority when renting property. Residential demand now accounts for the size of the city, fixing the shortage very large cities ran into, and the update also reworks tree level-of-detail quality and water flow. The UI framework has been updated too, which Iceflake warns can affect a limited number of mods, although existing saves still load.
Our opinion
Iceflake has inherited a game that spent its first two years being patched rather than expanded, and a paid pass is the studio’s way of saying the patient phase is over. The catch is the shape of the deal: £37.99 buys content that trickles out until summer 2027, with the expansion most people actually want still months away. Paradox has been stung before by selling Cities: Skylines II promises up front, so a pass that leads with a market set and a map rather than the headline expansion is asking for a fair amount of faith. The Autumn Breeze fixes are the reassuring part, because garbage trucks and renting priorities are exactly the unglamorous systems work that decides whether a city builder still holds together after fifty hours. Keep that standard up and the pass will look like decent value by spring.