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Townscaper has a generous demo that runs in your browserBuild towns while the boss ain’t looking

Build towns while the boss ain’t looking

Townscaperis a delightful toy and only costs £4.79/€5from Steam. Maybe you really want to play it on work computers, though, so here you go: a Townscaper web demoplayable right in your browser.Townscaper is about pulling little towns from the sea. You playfully, experimentally click to make the buildings grow, and procedural magic forms stairs, windows, and rooftops around your clicks. It’s a big box of jumbled lego to click together and see what you make. It was updated steadily through early access before its finalAugust launch.Townscaper Now Available on PC and Switch!Watch on YouTubeThe web version is more or less the game in its entirety, but with a much smaller grid on which to build. The inability to make more sprawling villages is important, but it’s still absurdly generous as demos go.Creator Oskar Stålberg is no stranger to browser toys. Back in 2015, long before making Townscaper, he released several procedural playthings includingBrick Block, anarchipelago generatorand acity map generator. Brick Block is a clear ancestor of Townscaper. In 2016, he released a browserplanet generator. They’re all fun. (He also, in-between, made minimalist RTSBad North).The URL changes as you build things in the web demo, so you can link folks to your creations. Here’s something I tapped outwhile writing this post.

Townscaperis a delightful toy and only costs £4.79/€5from Steam. Maybe you really want to play it on work computers, though, so here you go: a Townscaper web demoplayable right in your browser.Townscaper is about pulling little towns from the sea. You playfully, experimentally click to make the buildings grow, and procedural magic forms stairs, windows, and rooftops around your clicks. It’s a big box of jumbled lego to click together and see what you make. It was updated steadily through early access before its finalAugust launch.Townscaper Now Available on PC and Switch!Watch on YouTubeThe web version is more or less the game in its entirety, but with a much smaller grid on which to build. The inability to make more sprawling villages is important, but it’s still absurdly generous as demos go.Creator Oskar Stålberg is no stranger to browser toys. Back in 2015, long before making Townscaper, he released several procedural playthings includingBrick Block, anarchipelago generatorand acity map generator. Brick Block is a clear ancestor of Townscaper. In 2016, he released a browserplanet generator. They’re all fun. (He also, in-between, made minimalist RTSBad North).The URL changes as you build things in the web demo, so you can link folks to your creations. Here’s something I tapped outwhile writing this post.

Townscaperis a delightful toy and only costs £4.79/€5from Steam. Maybe you really want to play it on work computers, though, so here you go: a Townscaper web demoplayable right in your browser.

Townscaper is about pulling little towns from the sea. You playfully, experimentally click to make the buildings grow, and procedural magic forms stairs, windows, and rooftops around your clicks. It’s a big box of jumbled lego to click together and see what you make. It was updated steadily through early access before its finalAugust launch.

Townscaper Now Available on PC and Switch!Watch on YouTube

Townscaper Now Available on PC and Switch!

The web version is more or less the game in its entirety, but with a much smaller grid on which to build. The inability to make more sprawling villages is important, but it’s still absurdly generous as demos go.

Creator Oskar Stålberg is no stranger to browser toys. Back in 2015, long before making Townscaper, he released several procedural playthings includingBrick Block, anarchipelago generatorand acity map generator. Brick Block is a clear ancestor of Townscaper. In 2016, he released a browserplanet generator. They’re all fun. (He also, in-between, made minimalist RTSBad North).

The URL changes as you build things in the web demo, so you can link folks to your creations. Here’s something I tapped outwhile writing this post.