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Our Verdict

A pleasant dally for building your own idyllic seaboard getaways.

PC Gamer Verdict

A pleasant toy for building your own pastoral seaside getaways.

NEED TO KNOW

What is it? Build your own Mont-Canonize-Michel.

Expect to pay £5/$6

Developer Oskar Stålberg

Publishing house Raw Fury

Release August 26

Reviewed along RTX 2070 SUPER, AMD Ryzen 5 3600, 16GB RAM

Multiplayer? No

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Of complete the places I lived growing up, I've a particular fondness for the seaside town of North Berwick, wakeful up a stone's throw from the rolling waves and screaming gulls, tasty air wafting through winding streets. Going back these days breaks the trick a little, psyche—the township's been farther gentrified into a repair, and you can barely move for tourists at the height of summertime. Fortunately, Swedish developer Oskar Stålberg's Townscaper recaptures the magic of exploring an endless series of quaint ports and seaside villages, one tile at a meter.

Townscaper isn't a game thusly practically as it is a virtual play. A charitable of Lego set for building picturesque, cobbled villages As cosy or as sprawling equally your imagination desires. No intricate traffic, power or infrastructure management present—just left-hand clicking to place a tile (a street at water level, a colorful house anywhere above that), and redress clicking to delete it. Really, that's all there is to it.

Omit Townscaper adds a flock of flyspeck, welcome touches that play what could otherwise be a rote city block-dropper into something altogether to a greater extent charming. For starters, Townscaper's grid is a wonky, tortuous conurbation. Building testament organically lead into the kinds of crooked angles and quirky street layouts that specify seaside towns (though, if you insist, there are parts of the grid that'll let you create rigid, geometric blocks).

Tiles also smartly conform to what's placed around them. Steps will form between levels, rooftops get over streets, archways forming where towers intersect from each one other. Enclosed streets will become gardens, which fence themselves off supported blocks of differently-bleached houses. There's no formal unlock system, but acquisition what kind of interactions make different kinds of architecture is gratifying in and of itself—besides, the satisfying "plank" effect when placing a tile never gets old.

Spell you'll never see villagers roaming around, Townscaper has slew of tricks to help your worlds sense lived-in. Washing lines much pop between buildings, lights flicker on when you pull up the sun low, and flocks of gulls will swarm and light themselves connected rooftops—though you needn't worry near getting bird shite everyplace township. With clever tinge usage, you can give each neighborhood a unique feel. My largest town, for example, features a sprawling, pristine marble tower extending tendril-like walkways over more cluttered neighbourhoods and gardens, a heavy accent on erectness inspired by Edinburgh's labyrinthine experient town.

(Image credit: Oskar Stålberg)

Townscaper may not sustain the complexity of a Cities: Skylines, but its quaint towns littered with cobbled streets and old churches, dockyards and lighthouses feel more like a sho homely than the sterile American-styled metropolises of "real" city-builders—even when your town includes impossibly tall citadels or Bioshock Infinite-style natation cities. It's just a shame you can't soar up right down to a first-person view. Sure, you potty awkwardly finagle the television camera to a street-level view, but I extendible for an update that'll let me stroll the boardwalks myself.

With high-res screenshot options, texture toggles and the ability to impress the Sunday itself, Townscaper makes for a shockingly good desktop wallpaper generator. A Recent update even lets you exportation your town as a 3D mock up for printing, prototyping or whatever else you fancy. And yet, Townscaper is still just a toy. It's an extremely simple wee thing, and if you'Re looking anything resembling a challenge, you'll probably find yourself clocking impermissible in seconds.

But met along its personal terms, dive in when you've few spare proceedings to lay down a fresh neighbourhood, Townscaper is an absolutely joyous little meter waster that's unbroken me busy since it first hit early access last year. Now that it's out for real, I don't doubt it'll keep popping vertebral column sure a quick holiday for many months to come.

Townscaper

A pleasant toy for building your own idyllic seaside getaways.

20 days ago, Nat played Jet Set Radio Future for the forward time—and she's not stopped thinking about games since. Connection PC Gamer in 2020, she comes from three days of freelance reporting at Rock Theme Shotgun, Waypoint, VG247 and more. Integrated in the European indie scene and having herself industrial critically acclaimed small games like Can Androids Beg off, Nat is always looking for a radical curiosity to scream about—whether it's the next best indie darling, or simply mortal modding a Scotmid into Black Mesa. She's also played for a competitive Splatoon team up, and unofficially appears in Apex Legends under the pseudonym Horizon.

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