Lovely town-building toy Townscaper is out in early access

3 years 10 months ago

I’ve had a lovely afternoon building quaint island towns in Townscaper, launched into early access yesterday. It’s a town-building toy where the outcome is a surprise, really. All you do is place coloured blocks, then Townscaper translates them into apartments, steps, terraces, gardens, towers, and so on based on the shapes they form with other nearby blocks, then fill the whole place with lovely little decorative details. Every town cannot help but look lovely. Its creator, Oskar Stålberg previously made several procedural landscape toys I’ve enjoyed before, and was the artist for Bad North too.

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Alice O'Connor