Townscaper

Saige Rivera

1 year ago

This is one of the best things I've ever purchased, there is no objective or achievements, and there isnt any purchaseable items or colors or anything, you have 16 colors, a infinite grid with interesting and odd shapes, and your imagination. And you can find little fun things you can make, like lighthouses,parks and xfountains. I only have one thing that I can say is wrong with this game, and its that no little peoples spawn in. Stuff like birds and butterflies spawn in, but no humans.

John Smith

3 years ago

It's a beautiful little app, if only it would function properly. It seems poorly optimized; the controls are too vulnerable to input lag on lower-end phones. (My phone runs other apps and games without issue.) If I build anything other than a very small map, the (what initially felt subtle) input lag doesn't affect my ability to rotate or zoom the map, but ruins the one-finger controls. Instead of single-tap building and long-tap destroying, single-tap will destroy, and nothing can be built.

Travis Orr

3 years ago

Really enjoy this game (toy). From fun animations to learning how blocks interact on the unusual grid, there's much to discover and enjoy. I've followed this since I saw an imgur post by the dev, but knew I wouldn't play it enough on PC. Having it on mobile is perfect. My wife and I have taken turns crafting parts of our own little town. Technically, the app has run super smooth with no hiccups or crashes.

Stephanie Johanesen

1 year ago

ASMR gold. But I do wish for a few improvements. It would be so nice to have natural elevation like rocky ground. And park-like space to add. Trees & field & farm. Plaza & market stalls. And then have little people to wander the streets as you make them. Just randomly. And shop faces too. I know... it's a lot. But it's such a satisfying game with no objective except to build, I envision it to be more 'complete' with more that just cute pigeons.

Cyanide S

3 years ago

I really dig this game. Simple, yet you can get lost in it for an extended period of time. It'd be cool if you could add some music in a future update, and maybe add town residents that walk along the streets or do random things around the buildings you create. I only have one complaint, but I'm not sure it is anything you can fix. The camera movement triggers my vertigo from time to time. I understand this is out of your control, but I did want to put that out there for others with vertigo.

Justin West

3 years ago

Wonderfully simplistic, and yet there is a certain freedom within that simplicity. I love it! The only things I would add would be larger and taller maps, and maybe additional themes to skin the town with. Maybe little Pagoda looking buildings, or Adobe houses or something. But yeah, bigger maps would really be cool. I'd love to make an endlessly sprawling townscape. Ooh, and maybe a first person option to go wander around your creations.

Sam Schafer

3 years ago

I have wanted something like this for a long time - the ability to just create and grow a little city. No manufacturing, no waiting for money, no disasters or anything other than just building. I have spent a lot of time with this and love it. Tip for newbies: You can long-press on parts of multi-story buildings to delete pieces and create archways and structures on stilts.

Rachel Cox

2 years ago

Relaxing and engaging. I wish there were more things to unlock, maybe new building types or other animals, or even people, and that there was a way to lay multiple tiles at once. But I adore the look and the simplicity, and that you don't have to do anything in particular -- no quests, no materials to gather or buy, no random NPCs asking you for things. It's lovely.

sellxout

3 years ago

A great way to occupy yourself and kill a bit of time. Once you figure out the recipes for stairs, floating platforms, and courtyards it can be really cool to create new cityscapes. I like to play while I'm listening to podcasts before bed! I would love to see the city with more life. Maybe people walking around or going in and out of buildings? Boats would be really cool to see moving around too. I always wish the maps were a bit bigger. I hope the devs plan on updating at some point!

Joseph Anderson

3 years ago

Wow, this is such a fun game and/or digital toy. Only learned about it recently on other platforms and was excited to see it release on mobile. So many interesting little towns can be made. Intuitive, simple, relaxing, and can jump in or out whenever you please. I'd like to see this concept expand to include landscapes, mountains, forests, deserts, etc while retaining the city element. What an absolute blast! Thank you.

Daniel

3 years ago

Very beautiful and fun game. It can feel lonely in a way though and I don't find myself wanting to play it for long periods of time. An option to add little people would be great. I'd like to add people in one by one and maybe grow a village, but also I could see them working like the birds do. If the devs want to add more things, there's so much potential. Boats, trees, more animals, different architectures, and different base structures would all be intuitive extensions.

Radical

3 years ago

Already, the game seems very fun to play as soon as I started. But recently, I've been getting a glitch that makes it so the screen gets glitched out, flickering in and out, and I can't move the camera anymore. As well, I also can't see where I place tiles of land or house,I have to close out of the app and reopen it in order to see any changes. Hopefully this is simply a glitch that can be ironed out but if you have some ideas on what it might be caused by let me know. Thank you.

Pedro Murillo

1 year ago

Great game I love how cozy you can make the structures it would be amazing if we had tiny people going around going in and out buildings and talkin cartoony gibberish and doing doing stuff around but I guest that would be a nightmare to code not to mention the bugs and the performance issues it would make but it would be nice to have it as something togglable. It would be so therapeutic to watch them after you finish your building

Marissa

1 year ago

It's a satisfying game. But the lack of customization can be frustrating, especially for the price. I wish I could pick the shape of the blocks I am putting down a little more or like where I put windows and poles or fences. Being able to add greenery or animals/people would also be cool instead of just buildings.

Sweet Bee

1 year ago

Very very cute and relaxing. The sounds are very good, and it's a very cozy game. My only complaints are that I wish you could switch between gound types. (Like changing pavements and maybe just laying out plain grass or gardens) and maybe a color wheel for the buildings. I love this game though, worth every penny. The only thing I would want is more colors, and ground types. I love the stone paths, but I want different kinds. I would also really like it if builds were more than stone.

Hunter

1 year ago

The artwork is beautiful and the simplicity of just tapping and building is wonderful. That being said, you are so incredibly limited. You can only use so much of the grid and you can only build so much on your given grid section. Things that would make this game a 5 star game: unlimited building blocks, unlimited grid, selectable grid type (round, square, randomized (the current default)), and a way to see your creation in first person view would be amazing as well.

Nathan Zuray

1 year ago

Wonderful and therapeutic game. The tapping to build is so nice. The sky bridges and tower shapes are really nice! But you are so limited by the grid. I hate the random shapped areas. I wish there was a way to change the type of grid to be square, round, random. I also wish there was different material types. Like stone, wood, glass for the buildings and Sand, grass, stone, and brick for the floors. Adding little people would make it feel less lonely. 4 stars for being amazing!