So you've played Cyberpunk 2077 and found Night City as an empty shell of its developers' promises? Or maybe your hardware isn't powerful enough and you can only dream of recreating Night City in less demanding city-builder games? Either way, wake up, samurai, because it's time to get to some administrative city-planning and civil engineering in Cities Skylines.
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What Night City failed to bring to the table, you can help recreate as a digital diorama that's somehow more prone to flooding and meteor strikes. That is very much possible in Cities Skylines since the game is highly moddable. And wouldn't you know it, there are already tons of mods to turn your metropolis into a dystopian neon caricature of the near future, starting with these.
10 Arasaka Residential Complex
Is corporate pressure making your citizens feel antsier than usual? Well, make sure they get a leg up in their rat race and seemingly quell their unrest for a while by giving them some apartments to ensure they stay as close to their jobs as possible. The Arasaka Residential Complex mod lets you build some impressive apartment complexes.
Of course, it's a direct nod to the game's number one megacorporation: Arasaka. The buildings are then fashioned from their hyper-stylized Japanese high-rise construction. Now all you need is that huge gap between the elite and the destitute in your city to fill in these apartments.
9 Cyberpunk Vending Machines
Your Night City ghetto culture won't be complete without a futuristic alternative to cooked food, because the residents are either too poor or don't really care much about their bodies. So, give them something cheap with the Cyberpunk Vending Machines mod.
It adds the most prominent and most common vending machines available in Cyberpunk 2077, you know, the ones you tend to ignore. The mod features five styles and brands presented in the game and they're all suspicious and toxic-looking.
8 District Style: Cyberpunk
Can't get enough of Night City and cyberpunk aesthetics and you just need every district brimming with cubic buildings and neon lights? Then District Style: Cyberpunk ought to suit your needs. It's also great if you're a bit lazy and don't want to plop individual cyberpunk buildings.
The mod lets you grow a district in a Cyberpunk manner complete with a progression style for each phase of growth in structures. It still provides players with opportunities to plop some custom buildings of course, should they get impatient.
7 Cyberpunk2077 City (AVALON Remake)
Speaking of being lazy or strapped for time, you might want to grab someone else's cyberpunk city instead. A template if you will. This can be easier and less time consuming compared to growing a city from scratch. Thankfully, someone else has done that job for you and shared it in the form of Cyberpunk2077 City (AVALON Remake).
As the title says, the whole city is a remake of another map. It was made that way using tons of mods and assets. All you have to do is to download and install those mods or assets and then download this ready-made cyberpunk city map so you can view it in its dizzying glory or edit around some stuff to your liking.
6 Cyberpunk Collection
Then again, if you'd rather build a cyberpunk city following the usual city-building process of the game, then you can have the best help from this collection of mods from a specific user/creator. The Cyberpunk collection is a decently-rated gathering of assets for the game.
These assets can then be used in the game for districts and individual buildings. These include offices, Japanese-style futuristic apartments, custom monorails, monuments, and even avant-garde artistic structures to complete the atmosphere. You'll find around a thousand assets available for usage here.
5 CityScapes Futuristic Streetlights-Pack
As for individual assets that will make your cyberpunk city roads look more, well, cyberpunk-ish, the CityScapes Futuristic Streetlights-Pack is something that should complement the jaggy cars and structures of the surrounding environment.
Instead of the typical or boring lamp posts seen in modern cities and roads, this mod pack utilizes polygonal arches other mechanically advanced lights. All of them also offer softer but brighter glows and some even feature sources of light that aren't just from one bulb, making the look more advanced.
4 Shanty Towns And Blimps
It's not just the mega buildings that complete the look of a cyberpunk city. Do keep in mind that regardless of how awe-inspiring cyberpunk cities are, it's still a dystopia. Among the denizens of the city are the poorest of the poor who live in trailers, junkyard structures, and shantytowns.
That's what this mod collection brings to the table. It's from user creepyeyes and he made some convincing assets for the other side of the coin in cyberpunk culture. Along with some low-income shacks, garbage piles and blimps are also present, along with cars.
3 Billboards [CYBERPUNK 2077]
Apart from the sensory overload of neon skyscrapers and techno-music, cyberpunk cities are also filled to the brim with advertisements as a way to drive the point that corporations have taken over the entire world. Billboards are the grossest representations of such practices.
Hence a mod named Billboards [CYBERPUNK 2077] aims to bring the game's invasive and unapologetic ads to Cities: Skylines. Don't expect the raunchiest and most vulgar ones to be present though, this one only ports five billboards that are still relatively tame.
2 Cyberpunk Music
All those flashy buildings and custom maps wouldn't feel faithful to the cyberpunk genre without the beats and rhythms. So make yourself at home in your own version of Night City by cranking up the atmosphere to 11 using the Cyberpunk Music mod.
It's pretty self-explanatory. The mod brings in some of the funkiest songs in Cyberpunk 2077 to the airwaves of Cities: Skylines. Do keep in mind that this one requires a pre-requisite mod called CSLMusicMod.
1 Blade Runner Police Tower
But something's still missing in your cyberpunk city. Yes, you do have the corporations, the cramped high-rise apartments, the music, and even the poor district, so where are the oppressive authorities? They're the ones who will keep the status quo as rotten as it is and turn the other cheek when it comes to big corporate crimes.
Normal cops won't do, for something more corrupt, the Blade Runner Police Tower should do the trick. It's a vast and ugly police station with an architectural design that indicates how sad it is as an institution; it's all courtesy of Blade Runner which probably understands cyberpunk better than Cyberpunk 2077 did.