Townscaper began life as an experimental project, with developer Oskar Stålberg sharing progress on social media and earning a lot of loyal fans; now it's beloved as a chilled out building game. We knew it was coming to Switch, and today it's been confirmed - in IGN's Gamescom Awesome Indies Show - that it's out right now on the eShop.
We've had a look on the UK and US eShop and it costs just £5.39 / $5.99USD; as you can see in the excellent trailer above it's a relaxing time. Some of the game's description is below:
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.
This seems like a rather lovely way to relax with the Switch; are you planning to pick it up?
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I’m going to download this later today. This might tear me away from Islanders for a little while.
Looks nice. Might give it go sometime.
Does look pretty chill. I remember playing Sim City back in the day, and I'd leave my snes on over night, so I'd accumulate a ton of income and I could just build a crazy huge city unencumbered. Although sometimes, I'd wake up and my city would be decimated by natural disasters and/or Bowser.
I'm curious how this compares to Islanders. I want one, but not both 😂
Looks like it has real potential.
@Leuke Islanders is a puzzle game, kind of like city-building reduced to its fundamentals. Buildings get you a certain score that is increased or decreased by their surroundings (both other buildings as well as nature). Townscaper is more of a little creation sandbox. As it says, there's no goal in that game. But it's really pretty and cute and i absolutely wanna play it, haha. So far i've only played Islanders and (@DegenerateStar) god is it addictive.
Don’t think it’s on the EU/UK eShop. I’d love to give it a go though.
@StefanN Ok, thanks! Maybe I will try both 😂
Not my type of game at all. Yet, I’m compelled to give it a go. Whatever, I’m in
@ROBLOGNICK it is, i just bought it from the UK store
@ROBLOGNICK Did you try looking in the "Recent Releases" section and scrolling down a bit? Brand new titles get swamped fairly quickly on the eshop. But they're there.
This would be a fun way to build town/village/city maps for pen and paper TTRPGs.
Neat! I have this on Steam and it's a neat way to spend 30 minutes if you just want a time waster. Def worth the price here.
Just searched through all 22 pages of recent releases on UK store, tried typing in "Townscaper" in the search bar and finally via direct link posted by Oskar himself on Twitter. Not there, really don't know how some people are getting it and some aren't.
It's cute, but I decided to download the free mobile version to see if it was worth it. It didn't grab me enough to want to buy on Switch.
@StefanN Islanders is indeed addicting - I have to limit myself to one island max per day
@StefanN So this is not even really a game, then? More like playing with Legos?
@BongoBongo Haha i feel you .
@roboshort Yeah i think so. Definitely look up a trailer, you'll see pretty much exactly what you're getting.
@FishyS it hasn't released on mobile yet so you probably played an ad filled knock off
@smithpa01 Not sure..It was in a language I don't read, but the art for each building unit looked the same as the Switch version so it seems like a version of the same game.
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