LEGO Skylines Is a City Builder Game from Paradox Interactive
LEGO and Paradox Interactive announced LEGO Skylines at Gamescom 2026 - a city builder in the vein of Cities: Skylines, rendered entirely in LEGO. No release date has been confirmed, but it's coming to Steam, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and Nintendo Switch 2.
The premise is straightforward. You build and manage a city - infrastructure, electricity, water, sewage, hospitals, the lot - but every building, road, and decoration is made of LEGO bricks. Paradox are promising a large amount of customisation, so the idea is that your city ends up looking distinctly yours rather than a grid of identical blocks.
Cities: Skylines has a solid following among adults who like management depth, and Paradox know the genre well. Wrapping it in LEGO should broaden the audience considerably - kids who've never touched a city builder will be drawn in by the bricks, while older players get a familiar game with a fresh visual twist.
It looks like a decent fit. LEGO games work best when the licence adds some fun and cheek rather than just reskinning an existing idea, and a city builder made of buildable bricks has obvious appeal.
Whether the management side has enough depth to satisfy adults is the real question - these things can sometimes feel so simplified that there's not much to actually do.
No price or release window yet, which makes it hard to say much more. One to watch if you've got kids who like both LEGO and games, or if you're a city builder fan yourself.