Park Adventures, the next expansion for Cities: Skylines II, releases on December 2, 2026, on PC through Steam and the Microsoft Store, Paradox Interactive announced on November 10. It costs $19.99 (£16.99, €19.99) and is Iceflake Studios’ first original expansion for the game.
What Park Adventures Adds
The expansion is built around parks you lay out yourself. A Park District tool lets you draw an area, then place paths, attractions, buildings and decorations wherever you like. Paradox lists four kinds:
- City parks with tea houses, botanical conservatories and garden mazes.
- Amusement parks with roller coasters and gyro towers.
- Nature reserves with hiking trails, park lodges and observation platforms.
- Zoos, with lions, elephants and other animals, which can be added to any of them.
Parks are also part of your city’s economy now. A new recreation tab shows profit and loss for the whole city and for each park, and you set ticket prices, staff budgets, maintenance spending and park policies. Paradox warns that underfunded maintenance leads to unhappy guests and falling ratings. As a park draws visitors, it levels up and unlocks new attractions.
On top of that come more than 100 new assets and new maps in arid, tropical, boreal, alpine and Mediterranean settings. Park Adventures is also part of Cities: Skylines II: Expansion Pass II.
A Free Weekend and a New Patch
To mark the date, Cities: Skylines II is free to play on Steam from November 12 to 16. Iceflake also released patch 1.6.4f1, “Seasonal Shift”, the same day. It fixes cities building up too many companies with no buildings, which hurt performance, and a Hydroelectric Power Plant that did not work. It also adds DLSS 4.5, FSR 3 and XeSS 3 upscaling and a round of Paradox Mods improvements. Subscribing to the Paradox Newsletter now unlocks a new signature building, the Grand Post Office.
What This Means for Players
If you have been waiting to see Cities: Skylines II with its newest fixes, the free weekend is a no-cost way to try it before the expansion arrives. Parks now earn or lose money, so a good one needs a budget as well as a layout. If you build coasters in Planet Coaster 2, you will find some of the same ideas here at city scale: rides, ticket prices and staff budgets.
Still playing the original? Its Mansions and Manors and Holiday Getaways packs have a new date too, and our 100 best Cities: Skylines mods list covers the first game’s Workshop. The original also made our best moddable games on PC.
You can wishlist Park Adventures on Steam, and the game’s official page has more.
Source: Paradox Interactive press release and Steam announcement, November 10, 2026.