Townscaper
Townscaper is an experimental passion project. More of a toy than a game. Pick colors from the palette, plop down colored blocks of house on the irregular grid, and watch Townscaper's underlying algorithm…
Townscaper is an indie developed by Oskar Stålberg, released 30 June 2020 on Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One and Android. It currently starts at $2.39 at Humble Store.
What Townscaper is
Townscaper is an indie game developed by Oskar Stålberg and released in 2020. It was published by Raw Fury. It is available on Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Android, iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Build quaint island towns with curvy streets. Build small hamlets, soaring cathedrals, canal networks, or sky cities on stilts. Block by block. No goal. No real gameplay. Just plenty of building and plenty of beauty. That's it.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are sandbox. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Townscaper holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 65% of the 5,098 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2020 averaged 73, so it scored 7 points above the year average. Players rate it 72, 8 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
How long it takes, and what that costs
A full completion run takes around 1 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 4 GB RAM. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 1GB.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $2.39 at Humble Store, 60% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Townscaper launched on 30 June 2020, within three weeks of The Last of Us Part II, Ghost of Tsushima, Fortnite and Desperados III. All of them reviewed better. It was a Xbox Series launch-window title.
Released around the same time: The Last of Us Part II, Ghost of Tsushima, Fortnite, Desperados III.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Townscaper yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
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