When comparing Homeworld Remastered Collection vs Cities: Skylines, the Slant community recommends Cities: Skylines for most people. In the question“What are the best PC simulation games?” Cities: Skylines is ranked 1st while Homeworld Remastered Collection is ranked 21st. The most important reason people chose Cities: Skylines is:
At a total of 36sq.km of area to use (compared to SimCity 4), there is a large amount of room to build and play.
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Pros
Pro Large scale
At a total of 36sq.km of area to use (compared to SimCity 4), there is a large amount of room to build and play.
Pro Steady Stream of new content via DLCs
DLCs are optional, they do go one sale. Plus when a new DLC is released a bit of the content is released into the base game.
Pro Depth of field
There is a depth of field effect that will blur distant buildings, which mimics Sim City's diorama effect. It can of course be adjusted with a slider as to how much or little to use.
Pro Large Amount of Workshop Mods & Assets
With almost 150 thousand assets and mods, you can totally change the gameplay and look of the game
Cons
Con Abysmal Homeworld 1 Remaster
Homeworld 1's engine was not updated, instead the assets were ported into the Homeworld 2 remastered engine. This introduced a lot of bugs in singleplayer and destroyed Homeworld 1's critical gameplay elements (e.g. physics simulation and formations). The original voice actors were rehired to redo their lines 17 years later and they now sound worse than the first time.
If you want to play Homeworld 1, you are better off avoiding this remaster - it is not the same game at all.
Con Resource Heavy
If your computer doesn’t have decent specs, don’t expect to be able to run this game smoothly.
Con Expensive
If you want more gameplay features, you have to buy expensive DLC, but you can get them on sale sometimes.
Con Can be difficult to glean what one has done wrong in game
Cities: Skylines has difficulty letting the player know what they have done wrong, which results in a lot of head scratching.