
The game brings a fresh new take on the city building/management genre by introducing many RPG features. In Towns you manage a settlement on top of an active dungeon. Instead of playing the hero who delves deep into the dungeon, how about playing the town that houses and caters to the hero's needs?
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I haven't played the game since 2020, but I remember how fun it was, but unfortunately unfinished. But today I saw that the source code has been published by dev and I have now a little hope that we have in future some patches and updates, that's the only reason I recommend it now - to bring a bit of hope, this game definitely deserves it
Just get Dwarf fortress or Rimworld
get majesty or something.
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After abandoning it for TWELVE YEARS, the dev released an "update" (no actual game content update, only a notification that the game's source code is now made public) and lowered the price to continue the grift. Meanwhile, after a decade, this game is outdated and outclassed by other block-by-block colony/city builders that had emerged since then. I'm not trying to be nasty, but there's nothing I can say that is as nasty as the way this game was handled from the moment it was abandoned. This game and Gnomoria are both the perfect classic examples of why you should NEVER buy early access/developing games. Until you see SUBSTANTIAL content in a game, keep your money in your wallet. Those promised updates, promised and advertised features will NEVER COME.
Fun concept when it was released. As it stands now, not worth buying even if on sale as this has been long abandoned. If you do buy this, be aware there will be NO further updates and what you see is what you get. No content will be added.
Many reviews here complain that Towns should have been early access, but this chronology of what really happened explains why it wasn't: [olist] [*]Towns was released on Steam. [*]Steam added the concept of "Early Access". [*]Development of Towns was abandoned. [/olist] And there you have it. Towns was never early access, because early access didn't exist when it was released on Steam. And you can't go from "not early access" to "early access" - that's backwards. But is it fun? Well I've certainly had a lot of fun playing it, both before and after the Steam release. Some modding was needed to get it into a playable state, but nothing that couldn't be done without the recent source code release. And with the source code release, it might even be time to move it out of the "Abandoned" category in my library ...
The game had a lot of potential when it first came out, and although it was quite buggy, you could see the direction it was going. Unfortunately, the game was abandoned, and all that's left is a buggy, shallow mess. It is quite a shame as this was one of the DF-like games that all came out around the same time (Gnomoria is another one that comes to mind, which although also abandoned, is a lot more feature-complete than this). This isn't as bad as Spacebase DF-9 in terms of abandonment, but pretty close. If you're interested in this game, rather look at Dwarf Fortress, Rimworld, Songs of Syx or Oxygen Not Included (depending on what part interested you the most), and you'll be much happier.
Source Code was released - definitely a few years too late - but better late than never
The game is abandoned. Don't buy it!
No, it's not Dwarf Fortress or Rimworld levels of polished experiences, or even mechanically stable and smooth. However, this is but one of many of the earlier memories I have of indie games that intriguied me and let me down, except this one doesn't pretend it's not a mess. And given it's price and the technical potential of its code now being open source, someone might have some amusement out of this. I do recommend trying this, at the very least.
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