We need City Builder Netherlands.

Try Banished.

It's like 10 years old, but kind of scratches that simple old lifestyle itch without any war or fighting elements

I'm looking for something post-auto, not pre-auto. I'll definitely give it a look though.

yeah bummed that skylines 2 won’t have cycling at launch… are there any good road + pedestrian + cyclist simulators?

A|B Street does some of that, but it is not a game: https://github.com/a-b-street/abstreet

smh You can't make the game to easy.

It is definitely my ambition to implement public transportation but it is much harder to implement than cars. I live in Paris so I know what a non-car-centric city looks like and all the complexities around it (not to say I don't like it!).

With cars, anyone can go anywhere without thinking much, although it is a bit of an overstatement considering the time I have spent fighting gridlocks.

The simulation is probably not as accurate as modern city-builders, but this is one of the reasons SimCity 4000 Rush Hour is still my favourite game in the genre.

Roads and cars still form a core part of the game, it doesn't support pedestrian-only streets or bikes, but density is so much easier to achieve. That + the grid means cities don't end up looking "suburban" and "car-centric".

It was possible in some of the SimCity's IIRC, where you build a network of subways instead of roads.