

In Cities: Skylines, the most important aspect of your city planning should be where your roads are going to be. The controls are as good as they can be with a gamepad, and after a little practice you'll be whizzing through its systems in no time.

Pressing the right stick shows tooltips for each menu item, which can be incredibly useful to help learn the game.Pressing the left stick pauses the flow of time, this can be useful in a crisis.The left and right triggers zoom in and out of the map.This can be handy for removing specific elements from complex, layered infrastructure setups. You can use this to remove any object at the top level, but while in any of the specific menus (building roads or train tracks) it will become contextually bound to the current building type. It will allow you to cycle backward through menus and cancel current tools. This is useful for making curved roads, for example. While within a build menu, it allows you to change the brush type. At the top level, this gives quick access to things like budgets and info views.

You can also use up and down on the D-pad to build roads and railways into underground tunnels or create bridges, by changing the elevation. This is where you select buildings, road designs, and so on. The D-pad lets you navigate across the main menu at the bottom.It is your selection button globally throughout the game.
