Cities: Skylines has doubled its day one sales

Cities: Skylines broke sales records, and has probably broken them again.

When Cities: Skylines released last week, it sold through 250,000 units in 24 hours to become Paradox's fastest-selling game.

That figure has since doubled to 500,000:

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