Road building: elevated interchange with elevation and cost readouts

Cities: Skylines II · City & Base Management

Art style Realistic 3D

Cities: Skylines II - Road building: elevated interchange with elevation and cost readouts

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

Road building keeps its math on the cursor: while the player draws an elevated segment through a multi-level interchange, the frame shows the segment length (33 m), slope (+0.1 percent), and cost (328) right beside the road, and the lower left panel pins Elevation at 20 m with Tool Mode, Parallel Mode, and Snapping controls. The palette below offers road, bridge, and interchange variants, so the interchange geometry and the tool that made it stay in one view. Frame at about 46.0s in the Release Trailer 2026 (Steam). No trailer burn-in or caption on this frame.

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

hud-overlay map-overlay

Components

Parts on screen.

Toolbar Toggle Tooltip Resource bar Clock

Screen inventory

  • a road tool palette with road, bridge, and interchange variants and a selected elevated road segment
  • a Tool Mode, Elevation (20 m), Parallel Mode, and Snapping control panel at the lower left
  • live placement readouts on the segment being drawn: 33 m length, +0.1 percent slope, and a 328 cost
  • a multi-level highway interchange with loop ramps, lane arrows, and speed markings
  • a bottom city bar reading Megalopolis, Fortuna City, 201,295 population, and a treasury of 165,545,103

Top 3 colors

#959c9c 21%#293f3e 20%#4b5b58 18%

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; road palette, Elevation 20 m panel, 33 m and +0.1 percent readouts, 328 cost tag, and interchange geometry all legible; frame from the official Release Trailer 2026 on Steam

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