Townscaper is a clever little town-building experience that gained fame back when it first launched on Steam Early Access in 2020. Now developer Oskar Stålberg has taken interest in VR design, showing ...

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A new addition to the city-building game genre comes close to capturing how cities emerged for much of human history. Notably, unlike with previous entries into the city-builder genre, there is no ...

Matthew was the Apps and Games Editor at Android Police until 2025. Townscaper is a well-reviewed indie city-building sandbox game that's been available on PC and consoles since August, and this week ...

This is an art toy to savour, and a time-waster of great power. What's that? Look closer. It's water: a little eruption of it, a hopping splash of droplets. With each building you place in Townscaper, ...

I play with Townscaper, my daughter plays with Townscaper, and when it launches on Switch my dad is going to love playing with Townscaper too. But that ‘with’ is doing a lot of heavy lifting here, as ...

Earlier this year indie developer Oskar Stålberg showed interest in adapting Townscaper to VR headsets, showing off some prototype builds of the cozy, pint-sized town creator game working with motion ...

Townscaper, the lovely and relaxing city-builder toy, is now available to try for free in your browser window, no downloads required. Oskar Stålberg, the creator of ...

Townscaper, a chill and very aesthetically-pleasing city-builder from Oskar Stalberg (whom you may know as the developer behind Bad North) is now available to play on Xbox Game Pass. Townscaper has ...

In the beginning, there was an ocean. Vast and unbroken, it stretched from one end of the horizon to the other, the blue of the sky barely distinguished from the blue of the sea. Then there was a pier ...

Townscaper, a pleasant game where you build up a small island town, is available now on Nintendo Switch and PC. During IGN’s Gamescom Awesome Indies showcase, Raw Fury and developer Oskar Stålberg ...