Residential zoning: painting districts with suitability and pollution legend

About this game

Developer: Colossal Order · Publisher: Paradox Interactive · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Realistic 3D · Screen type: City & Base Management

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What to study

Zoning as a diagnostic overlay: the residential brush paints a green grid over whole blocks while the left panel keeps the encoding honest, with a legend for residential buildings and signature buildings plus red to green gradients for Residential Suitability and Ground Pollution, so a bad plot reads before a single building is placed. The bottom palette holds six residential types with Theme, Tool Mode, and Snapping controls, and the city bar underneath tracks the whole city (Big City, Sundlandet, 15,316 people) while the player paints. Frame at about 27.5s in the Release Trailer 2026 (Steam). No trailer burn-in or caption on this frame.

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

data-overlay info-view legend-panel map-overlay

Components

Parts on screen.

Grid Toolbar Toggle Resource bar Clock

Screen inventory

• a Residential info view panel with a Map Legend listing Residential Buildings, Residential Signature Buildings, Residential Suitability, and Ground Pollution
• a green zoning grid painted over city blocks with street names on the roads
• a bottom zoning tool palette with six residential building types and Theme, Tool Mode, and Snapping controls
• a bottom city bar reading Big City, Sundlandet, 15,316 population, and a treasury of 1,300,193 with +7,069 per hour
• red to green gradient bars for Residential Suitability (Bad to Good) and Ground Pollution (Low to High)

Top 3 colors

#2d8eb8 27%#34627d 22%#80abc3 21%

Top three palette colors by share. The remaining colors make up the rest.

Source and credit

© Colossal Order / Paradox Interactive, Cities: Skylines II screenshot: Release Trailer 2026 (Steam), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Paradox Interactive.

Source tier 2 (publisher-released) · screenshot: Steam store page · Steam page

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-31. verified 2026-10-31: frame inspected visually at full resolution; Residential Map Legend, green zoning grid, bottom zoning palette, and city bar all legible; frame from the official Release Trailer 2026 on Steam

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