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Townscaper is a pleasant city builder without all the fret

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Townscaper isn't your accustomed urban center constructor. There's no infrastructure to lay out, citizens to manage, operating theatre sewerage lines to divert. Oskar Stålberg's toylike town deviser is instead cheerful to let you concentrate on the good bits, turning a blank sea canvas into a sprawling seaside getaway.

Going early access future month, Townscaper has already become a firm go-to distraction. All you potty do is plop down OR remove colourful tiled houses ripped straight out of Balamory—but Stålberg has exhausted to great lengths to make this as satisfying as manageable. Buildings come by with a delightful pop, sending ripples into the water American Samoa seagulls flock overhead.

It's just a bit to a greater extent complex than you'd expect, too. Rows of different lead-coloured houses will sit a bit gnarled, gardens springing up in swallowed spaces. Towers that alternate colours will become lighthouses, and if you can find a perfect loop in the power grid, Townscaper will let your neighbourhoods fly like a somewhat less antiblack Bioshock: Infinite.

Townscaper's lovely towers — (Image credit: Oskar Stålberg)

What you end up with is a lovely hodgepodge of islands, cobbled streets and strange neighbourhoods. On that point is a grid, and you throne very well plan forbidden your ideal island. But the best approach, I've set up, IT to just take off laying Down bricks without rhyme or cause to see what you fetch up with. With options to move the sun, turn slay textures, and capture super high-res screenshots, Townscaper also doubles as a bloody salutary wallpaper generator.

Townscaper's best enjoyed as something to jump into when you've got a spare five minutes, popping fallen a some houses every 24-hour interval until you've on the spur of the moment ground yourself with a cover girl novel vacation spot.

20 years past, Nat played Jet Set Radio Future for the first clock—and she's not stopped thought about games since. Joining Personal computer Gamer in 2020, she comes from three years of freelance reporting at Rock Paper Shotgun, Waypoint, VG247 and more. Integrated in the European independent scene and having herself developed critically acclaimed small games like Can Androids Pray, Nat is always looking a newfangled curiosity to thigh-slapper about—whether it's the next best indie darling, or simply someone modding a Scotmid into Black Mesa. She's also played for a competitive Splatoon team, and unofficially appears in Apex Legends low-level the pseudonym Horizon.