100% Achievements / Walkthrough for Cities Skylines

Cities: Skylines4 · 87 ratings5.8k views211 favorites11 min readby StiflerUpdated Oct 23, 2023View on Steam ↗

Guide & Mod Overview

In this guide, I wrote down how to unlock every Achievement in the Game.
If you have questions or problems, please comment.

Down below you'll find all the Mods I used while playing the game. You'll need them if you use my maps to get some of the achievements.

x All Areas Purchaseble:
https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=405810376

x Achieve It!:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1567569285

x Harmony 2.2.2-0:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2040656402

For easy road building:

x Intersection Marking Tool 1.14.4
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2140418403

Cities Skyline – Base Game – 35 Achievements

Pioneer
Start your first City.

Singing in The –
Have your city experience rain.

Power at Your Fingertips
Unlock all city services. Let your city grow until you unlock Electricity, Water, Garbage, Health, Police, Fire, Parks and Recreation.

City Planner
Draw 3 districts with the district tool.

Rolling in Dough
Earn 15.000$ per week.

Unpopular Mayor
Have 15% happiness.
This is easy to unlock my not having enough Water treatment or not having Police at all.

Does my Bum Look Big in This?
Change the look of the Chirper Icon in the top-middle of your screen by clicking it.

Climbing Social Ladder
Educate a citizen from level 0 to level 3 by having him go to a university.

Safe City
Keep the crime rate under 10% for 4 years straight, by having enough Police in your city.

Lawmaker
Apply a policy to a district you created.

Well Informed
Have a look at all the different info-view panels by just clicking on them. If you already have DLCs installed, you’ll need to view these info panels too.

Fire Watch
Build 5 Fire Stations

SIMulated City
Have an area the size of nine tiles. You can buy them all when you unlock the last milestone.

The Safest Town
Build 5 Police Headquarters

Decorator
Use the Asset Editor to make your very own asset, by opening the asset editor. Just place on thing on the asset, save it and you should unlock the achievement.

Terraformer
Create a map, by opening the map editor. You don’t need to do anything, just save the map you opened, and you should unlock the achievement.

Frenetic Player
Click on a police building 100 times in a row.

Heavenly City
Unlock Monuments by finishing the last milestone.

City in Motion
Set up 20 transport lines of any kind.

Earthloving City
No water or ground pollution in a city of over 10.000 residents. This can be achieved by placing Water Treatment Plants.

Professional Dumper
Fill five landsites.

Beam Me UP
Build the Space Elevator Monument.

Metropolis
Have a population over 100.000 in your city.

Higher Education
Have over 70% of citizens highly educated in a city of over more than 10.000 people. You will need to place enough schools of every king in residential areas.

Power to the People
Have the industry tax rate over 5% higher than eighter residential tax rate for one year.

Make Them Pay
Have both residential tax rates over 5% higher than industry tax for one year.

Distroy
Have 10 districts, each with unique policies.

A Huge Hadron
Build the Hadron Collider Monument

Short Fuse
Build the Fusion Power Plant Monument

Medic!
Build the Medical Center Monument

City in Motion 2
Set up 50 transport lines of any kind.

New Eden
Build the Eden Project Monument

I Want It All
Unlock every single building in the game. If you deactivate all your DLCs, it should be easy.

Happy Town
Have more than 95% happiness for 5 years. Build enough Parks and monuments to achieve this.

Tough City
Have the city survive a crime rate of over 40% for 2 years. The easiest way to do it, is to safe an certain amount of money, then delete all you police building and fast forward the time.

After Dark – DLC – 4 Achievements

Leisure Suites
Have 1000 Squares of leisure specialized commercial zone.

Playing With the Boys
Have 1000 Squares of beach commercial zone.

Prison Break
Build 15 prisons in one city.

1001 Nights
Experience 1001 nights in the game. To experience 1001 nights in Cities Skylines at 3X speed on a blank map, it will take: 6d 8h 50m of in-game playtime, that's approximately 153 hours (152h 50m) in real time.

Snowfall – DLC – 11 Achievements

Foggy Weather
Experience fog.

Quay-King
Build one quay.

With Canals You Can!
Build one canal.

Speed Up
Boost 100km of streets with Road maintenance service

Are they Naked in There?
Build a sauna in your city.

It’s Wintertime!
Change the Chirper icon in the top middle of your screen to a winter look.

Here’s A Tram
Have one tram line.

Get your Snowshoes Ready!
Experience snowfall. Open an existing map of the snowfall DLC. That should be the easiest way to unlock the achievement.

The Plowmaster
Have snowplows collect 2.000.000 units of snow. Do this on a map of the snowfall DLC.

Brrr!
Create a winter map in the map editor.

I Love Trams!
Have 10 tram lines active.

Natural Disasters – DLC – 12 Achievements

Shake It Up
Experience an earthquake. You can force this to happen under the Landscaping option. Click on Disasters, choose the disaster you need and place it on the map. Now you need to wait some time and the disaster will happen.

Twist and shout
Experience a tornado. You can force this to happen under the Landscaping option. Click on Disasters, choose the disaster you need and place it on the map. Now you need to wait some time and the disaster will happen.

Drop the Base
Experience a sinkhole. You can force this to happen under the Landscaping option. Click on Disasters, choose the disaster you need and place it on the map. Now you need to wait some time and the disaster will happen.

It’s heading right for us!
Experience a meteor strike. You can force this to happen under the Landscaping option. Click on Disasters, choose the disaster you need and place it on the map. Now you need to wait some time and the disaster will happen.

Thunder and Lightning
Experience a thunderstorm. You can force this to happen under the Landscaping option. Click on Disasters, choose the disaster you need and place it on the map. Now you need to wait some time and the disaster will happen.

We need snorkels!
Experience a tsunami. You can force this to happen under the Landscaping option. Click on Disasters, choose the disaster you need and place it on the map. Now you need to wait some time and the disaster will happen.

Run, Bambi!
Experience a forest fire. You can force this to happen under the Landscaping option. Click on Disasters, choose the disaster you need and place it on the map. Now you need to wait some time and the disaster will happen.

Eternal City
Have 10 disasters hit the same city.

What the…?
Experience a very special blue Chirp-Tornado. It appears random. There is only one way to force it to happen:
Lauch the game with the following Lauch Options (Right click on game in your steam Library > Properties > Set Launch Options):
--enable-dev-ui

When enabled you can load up a map save, press tab and use the disasters menu to span the Chirp-Tornado. When it has spawned, save the map, and close the game.
Clear the Lauch Options, start the game again and load up your Chirp-Tornado map save.

If the Achievement doesn’t show up, you’ll need to do it again, with the following mod installed:
Achieve It!:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1567569285

Creator
Create 10 scenarios in the editor. These scenarios need at least one winning and one losing condition.
For example: Play 3 weeks -> Win, Have under 0$ -> Lose.
You can use the same conditions for every scenario, just be sure to safe them under different names.
This is also the easiest way to unlock the following Achievements “The Underdog” and “We Have A Winner!”.

The Underdog
Lose 10 scenarios. Therefor you can use the scenarios you created for the “Creator” Achievement.

We have a Winner!
Win 10 scenarios. Therefor you can use the scenarios you created for the “Creator” Achievement.

Mass Transit – DLC – 14 Achievements

Nomen Est Omen
Name a road.

Reporting!
Check a route of a citizen, by clicking on him.

It’s Called Steven
Name a road ‘Steve’.

Triorail
Have 3 monorail lines.

Clark Cable
Transport 5000 passengers with Cable Cars.

Rejoice And Be Ferry
Have 3 Ferry lines.

Blimp? Blimp!
Have 3 blimp lines.

Cable Galore
Transport 20.000 passengers with Cable Cars.

Centurion
Name 100 roads.

Not So Mono
Have 10 monorail lines.

Combo Breaker!
Have one Ferry and Bus Exchange Stop, Metro-Monorail-Train Hub, Monorail-Bus Hub and Multiplatform Train Station.

Put Some Blimp in Your Blimp
Have 10 blimp lines.

Ferry Faerie
Have 15 ferry lines.

Totally in Motion
Win all three Mass Transit scenarios.
If you need the solutions for all the scenarios, you can find them here:
x Fix the Traffic
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3048175927

x Ferry Empire
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3048175785
x Trains!
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3048176050

Green Cities – DLC – 6 Achievements

Green Energy
Produce all electricity without using raw materials.

Greenest City
Have no polluting industry in your city, only Office Zone and specialized zones.

Friendly Teaching
Build one of each eco-friendly schools: Community School, Institute of Creative Arts and Modern Technology Institute

I to the T
Have all office zone specialized to be IT-Cluster.

Organistic
Have all commercial zone in your city specialized Organic and Local Produce.

Super Self-Sufficient
Have all residential zone in your city be specialized Self-Sufficient Housing.

Parklife – DLC – 8 Achievements

The Park to Rule all Parks
Have a maximum level park made with Park Tool.

Coaster Tycoon
Have a Park with all Amusement Park buildings in it.

Maintain the Park
Have a Park Maintenance Service and a Zoo, Nature Reserve and Amusement Park in your city.

Ambulare
Have 5 pedestrian Walking Tour lines.

Z00
Have a Park with all zoo buildings in it.

Parking Not Forbidden
Have 10 parks made with park tool.

Naturally
Have a Park with all Nature Reserve buildings in it.

Sights To Be Seen
Have 15 Sightseeing Bus lines.

Industries – DLC – 7 Achievements

Postman
Deliver 1.000.000 units of Mail.

Full Capacity
Level up an Industry Area up to Level 5.

Scaling Up
Build 10 Warehouse buildings.

Just Tolling
Build one of each Toll Booth buildings.

Industry Tycoon
Build all Unique Factories.

Offshore Assets
Build 5 Oil Rigs.

Serial Investor
Build 10 industry Areas.

Campus – DLC – 7 Achievements

When I tried to unlock all these achievements, I made the following map, which will give you at least the Achievements, which are marked with an X.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3044535350

Student Housing Project
Have total number of 10 Dormitories.

Distinguished Academics
Have on campus reach “Prestigious” in reputation.

Varsity Sports Patron
Build all 5 varsity sports arenas on one campus in one city.

(X) For For-Profit Education
Cover one campus area upkeep cost entirely with tuition fees paid by students in a campus area with more than 5000 students.

Higher Learning
Build all Campus Area types with all their respective campus buildings and faculties.

(X) Academic Scholar
Create 100 academic works.

(X) Education Nation
Have 15.000 students studying on campuses at the same time.

Sunset Harbor – DLC – 7 Achievements

The Water of Our Lives
Treat 20.000.000 m3 of waste water using the Inland Water Treatment Plants.

Fisher King
Catch 10.000.000 units of fish.

Aquaculture
Farm 7.500.000 units of fish and sea plants.

Trolleyface
Transport 35.000 citizens in trolleybuses.

World of Rotorcraft
Transport 15.000 citizens in passenger helicopters.

Come Fly With Me!
Have 60 tourists visit the Aviation Club during one week. For easier completion, place the Aviation Club near your Airport.

Multidiciplinary Transport Tycoon
Build one of each of the following transport hubs: Underground Metro-Intercity Bus Hub, Bus-Intercity Bus Hub, Train-Metro Hub, Metropolitan Airport, Bus-Metro Hub.

Airports – DLC – 5 Achievements

Airport Architect
Build an airport area with a terminal, a runway and an aircraft stand.

Airfield Expertise
Build an airport area with an area of 25.000 cells.

Airlifter
Have 10.000 total passengers travel through an airport area.

Airline Tycoon
Have an airport area reach level 3.

High-cost-carrier
Set the airline ticket price slider to the maximum price.

Plaza & Promenades – DLC – 3 Achievements

The Sweetest City
Build 10 ice cream stand plazas in one pedestrian area.

Very Focused
Have one pedestrian area focused on residential, one in commercial, and one in workplace zones.

Garbage Collection Issues
Have 5 garbage service points reach their capacity limit.

Financial Districts – DLC – 5 Achievements

So Much Cash!
Transport 2.000.000$ using cash transport vans in one week.

All In
Have at least 1.000.000$ in cash. Put all of your available cash into investments, then don't sell any investments for one month.

No risk, no fun
Take a loan in order to make an investment.

Cash Flow
Have a bank building get flooded. Place a Bank near a river and place a tsunami from the Natural Disasters DLC.

Can’t Buy Me Love
Earn 5.000.000$ through investments.

Hotel & Retreats – DLC – 3 Achievements

Very Accommodating
Have total of 500 weekly guests to stay at hotels.

Peak Season
Organize three hotel events.

Fully Booked!
Have the maximum possible number of guests stay at any 5 star hotel with at least 100 rooms.

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