Thesixthaxis iconThesixthaxisSep 2, 2026 ~2 min source read

LEGO Skylines Preview – Building your city one Lego brick townhouse at a time

LEGO Skylines is one of those ideas that's so obvious in retrospect, combining the iconic construction toy with what is now the top city building game of the past decade. Skylines, though, bringing a much more personal and individual control over the buildings, neighbourhood and bustling metropolis that you'll eventually build.

LEGO Skylines Preview – Building your city one Lego brick townhouse at a time
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LEGO Skylines is one of those ideas that's so obvious in retrospect, combining the iconic construction toy with what is now the top city building game of the past decade.

Skylines, though, bringing a much more personal and individual control over the buildings, neighbourhood and bustling metropolis that you'll eventually build.

Then it's straight into your very first building effort, and this is where the real differences start to make themselves apparent.

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LEGO Skylines is one of those ideas that's so obvious in retrospect, combining the iconic construction toy with what is now the top city building game of the past decade. Skylines, though, bringing a much more personal and individual control over the buildings, neighbourhood and bustling metropolis that you'll eventually build. Then it's straight into your very first building effort, and this is where the real differences start to make themselves apparent.

How it works

  • Skylines and most city builders will have you create your road network, utilities infrastructure, and then all the buildings and businesses will spring up as you create zoning for them.
  • How has nobody made a LEGO city building game before now?
  • Art Director Jonna Liikkanen revealed that "In this early preview and the late game save, you only have the basic versions of many things, the most basic looking houses in there.
  • We are also going to have multiple collections of buildings – we have tropical paradise looking city buildings, and we also might have some medieval stuff in there.
  • "This is mostly our own creations," Jonna added, "and we're very proud of that." Having said that, "There was, if you loo...

Example or evidence

  • Lego Skylines starts with Mom & Dad asking you to build them a home.

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This isn't just a plasticky, bricky reskin of Cities:

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