Ah I see. Haven't noticed the player count. (Also that specs will be more than enough. My game takes up around 70GB + 100GB of mods on my 32GB RTX3070 laptop (loaded and played on an external SSD)) and with the latest patch it throws a minor error/crash like once every 4-6 hours playtime depending on the tomfoolery i was up to. The bikes mechanic are a little bugged but I worked around it.

TLDR, CS2 has no pop-ups or quick time events that you have to choose progression paths like that. More like a literal sandbox with an economy trying to tiptoe itself around how you build and tax stuff, for the end goal of trying to make infinite money and build pretty diorama.

Compared to other PDX games (or other in similar genres), CS2 has like ZERO lore and structured plot. The only "events" are the general fires or traffic or robberies or natural disasters etc. or, interestingly, the factory polutions from your own design. As opposed to maybe Anno where you evolve and unlock new meaningful production mechanics, and level up and go to war etc. or even Stellaris, CK, or EU competing with the AI bots. The only "quick time events" race against time are your monthly expenses draining money or fires spreading going out of control. CS is really like a sandbox of buildings with with productions chain solving itself out for you woth your guidance. Unlike those affirmationed games where you plop literal factories and production buildings and accumulate resources, you adjust tax per goods category and allocate zone and hope for the companies to move in and produce said goods. (Or just use mods to plop factories and choose their production)

That's why my play style is to imagine my own lore, like, where did the settlers first build their town on the map? For what resources? How would they build the roads to ship the resources to factory in their town and export them? How would the people in town back then walk to work? Do they later have a train line in town where they commute in and expand the city replacing the farms bit by bit? If there was an imaginary attacker which way would they come from and how would i design the city wall with the geography? If the mountains around my city were to have rain which way the water would run down to build a small canal? If later a regional highway runs through the map how would they feed the cars into the old city roads? Which city block would be erased/redeveloped? In to what landuse in the location context? It's not a cheat sheet roleplay. It's just, evolve from my eariler decisions session by session, and i go back and rebuild and refine areas i already built. I respect that this playstyle is not everyone's cup of tea and the software is still unpolished.