When comparing Offworld Trading Company vs Cities: Skylines, the Slant community recommends Cities: Skylines for most people. In the question“What are the best singleplayer games on Steam?” Cities: Skylines is ranked 28th while Offworld Trading Company is ranked 136th. 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 Economic rather than military focus
The game focuses more on empire building over combat and military might. This means the game is a bit more political, which requires a different line of thinking.
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 Short games
There is no real extended gameplay here, especially for an RTS. Games will last about 20-40 minutes and the structure of each game is very similar. Once the player gets the mechanics down and knows what to do when, every game will be pretty much the same. Win conditions are just too easy to come to the conclusion of and repeat with ease.
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.