When players ofCities: Skylinesreach the Boom Town milestone, they unlock several advanced healthcare facilities. While the medical clinic fromthe Little Hamlet milestonecan handle general healthcare needs, the game also tracks elder care, childcare, and death care.
Death care is specifically about what happens to citizens after they die. Citizens inCities: Skylineslive an average of six in-game years, though this number can go up or down depending on the state of healthcare. Still, every citizen will pass away eventually, and players will need to use death care buildings to handle what comes next.
RELATED:Simulation Games With The Most Replay Value
How Death Works
When a citizen dies in the game, a hearse will leave a death care facility, drive to the body’s location, and bring it back. If no one picks up a body for some time, a special icon will appear over the building to make players aware of the problem. If a hearse still doesn’t reach the body after several more in-game days, then the building will become abandoned. In this sense, the death-care mechanics are identical to the trash-collection mechanics.
Another way the mechanics are similar is in how the two main facilities work. Just like the garbage dump, the cemetery unlocked at the Boom Town milestone can accept bodies but will eventually fill up. On the other hand, the crematorium unlocked by the Big City milestone can accept any number of bodies, and players can set cemeteries to empty out and send their bodies to other cemeteries or crematoriums.
There are also several other death care facilitiesavailable in DLC expansions. These facilities unlock at the same time as the crematorium, and they work in similar ways by accepting an unlimited number of bodies.
Death Care Tips
Cities: Skylinesis available now on PC, PS4, Switch, and Xbox One, and it’s available on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S as of February 15.
