In Cities: Skylines II you zone land, lay roads and pipes, and keep the budget out of the red while the city grows around your mistakes. On December 2, 2026, that budget gets a new line. Paradox Interactive and Iceflake Studios release Park Adventures, a paid expansion, on PC through Steam and the Microsoft Store. It costs $19.99, £16.99 or €19.99, and it is also part of Expansion Pass 2, which sells for $44.99.
The expansion adds a modular park builder. You draw a park district, which is an area the game marks in green on the map. Then you fill it with buildings from four park types: city parks, zoos, nature reserves and amusement parks. The buildings decide what the park becomes, and the types can be mixed. A Paradox dev diary from October offers a merry-go-round next to an office building as a perfectly legal layout.
What a park costs to run in Park Adventures
Parks earn experience as citizens visit, and that unlocks more attractions as they grow. The money is where it turns into a management game. A recreation tab shows profit and loss for each park and for the whole city. You set ticket prices, staff budgets, maintenance spending and visitor policies. Fund the staff too thinly, or price tickets above what guests will pay, and the announcement says the guests leave.
"Parks aren't decoration. They're destinations," the store page says, and the recreation tab is there to check. The rest of the box is five new maps, built for arid, tropical, boreal, alpine and Mediterranean cities, and more than 100 new assets. Those include tea houses, botanical conservatories, garden mazes, rollercoasters, gyro towers, hiking trails, park lodges, observation platforms and zoo enclosures with animals.
Iceflake's first expansion for a city it inherited
Colossal Order made Cities: Skylines and its 2023 sequel. In November 2025, Paradox announced that it and Colossal Order had "mutually decided to pursue independent paths." Iceflake Studios, a Paradox internal studio in Tampere, Finland, took over all development from the start of 2026. Its best-known game is Surviving the Aftermath, a colony builder that left early access in November 2021.
Park Adventures is the sequel's answer to Parklife, the 2019 expansion for the first Cities: Skylines that also let you draw parks, charge entry and level them up. Iceflake's version puts the money up front, with staff budgets and a profit line for each park. That fits a studio whose best-known game is about keeping a colony alive on scarce supplies.
If you already own Expansion Pass 2, it arrives on December 2 at no extra cost. Everyone else can wishlist Park Adventures on Steam now.
