It’s so realistic you can almost taste the saline sea air, but every building, park, and boulevard in this “San Francisco” is a digital imposter.
Redditor radiativeDoctor writes that making the “1:1 recreation” took between 200 and 250 hours in a modded version of Cities: Skylines, a video game about city-building. Referencing images from Google Maps, the cartographer painstakingly built neighborhoods and urban forests until hitting the game’s limit on building number.
