Cities in Motion: Design Now
A 2011 transit management DLC that adds five new vehicle types to Cities in Motion, aimed at players already deep in the base game's simulation.
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Completionists only; marginal vehicle upgrades that don't justify revisiting an aging transit sim.
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About Cities in Motion: Design Now
Design Now is a slim DLC pack for the original Cities in Motion, released in 2011 when Paradox was still experimenting with how to price transit-focused expansions. It adds five new buses and transit vehicles (including the Stern-Berger Midi, built around Swiss engineering principles) with slightly higher capacity or efficiency than their base-game equivalents. If you're already running a mid-to-late game city and want marginal upgrades to your fleet mix, these vehicles offer a minor optimization path. The 50% Steam review rating on four reviews suggests the DLC was niche even at launch, likely because the gains are incremental rather than game-changing. Skip this unless you're a completionist rebuilding your Cities in Motion save in 2024. The base game itself has aged poorly compared to Cities: Skylines, and this add-on doesn't address any of those fundamental gaps. Vehicle variety is rarely the bottleneck in transit sims, so treat it as cosmetic depth rather than essential content.
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Minimum
- Processor
- 2 GHz Dual Core or higher
- Memory
- 2 GB RAM Hard Disk Space: 2 GB Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 8800/ATI Radeon HD 3850 or higher (integrated video cards not supported), 512…
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- Developer
- Colossal Order
- Publisher
- Paradox Interactive
- Release Date
- Jun 14, 2011
