With my ADHD, complexity is something I tend to stay away from. It’s cookie cutter, cut-and-dry, plop your water tower here type stuff. SimCity: Cities of Tomorrow is a simple game compared to Cities: Skylines. Do the games really compare with each other? Which one is better? SimCity vs. Both games offer city building, potential disasters, and control of your city. Cities: Skylines is a new game, released in 2015. SimCity was first released in 1989 and has since had a few more iterations, with the most recent release of the title in 2014. SimCity and Cities: Skylines are two very similar games, but with many differences as well.