Townscaper is a fun toy and costs only £4.79 / €5 from Steam. However, you probably really want to play it on your work computer, so here you go: a Townscaper web demo can be played right in your browser.
Townscaper is about pulling small towns out of the sea. You playfully, experimentally click to make buildings grow and procedural magic forms stairs, windows and roofs around your clicks. It’s a big box of jumbled Legos to put together and see what you make. It has been regularly updated through early access before August release.
The web version is more or less the whole game, but with a much smaller grid to build on. The inability to create many large villages is important, but it’s still sillyly generous as the demos go.
Creator Oskar Stålberg is no stranger to browser toys. Back in 2015, long before making Townscaper he released several procedural games including Brick block, one archipelago generator and a city map generator. Brick Block is the obvious ancestor of the Townscaper. In 2016, he released a browser planetary generator. All are fun. (He, in the middle, created a minimalist RTS Bad North).
The URL changes as you build things in the web demo, so you can associate people with your work. Here’s something I’ve been exploiting while writing this post.
