Cities: Skylines II developer Colossal Order has provided an update on the game’s PS5 version, which remains under construction more than a year and a half after its scheduled due date of October 2023. Apparrently Colossal Order still has “more things we need to address”, and the game won’t be arriving before Summer 2025.

Supposed to release alongside the PC version, Cities: Skylines II was indefinitely delayed following its disastrous launch on that platform, which is still plagued by performance issues to this date (thanks, Eurogamer). The last time we heard of the struggling PS5 version was back in October 2024, which the devs blamed on “hardware limitations.”

We don’t claim to be experts on video game development (being content to tell objectively smarter people whether their games are subjectively “good” or not). Still, it does seem surreal that mammoth, gorgeous RPGs like Kingdom Come: Deliverance II can perform so well on PS5, whereas something like Skylines II struggles to run at all.

According to the devs, back in October, “We are experiencing both simulation issues (CPU) and graphics issues (GPU), which become noticeable when players take certain actions that cause frame rate drops or memory overload. These issues are particularly challenging due to the hardware limitations of consoles.”