Tiny Towns
A downloadable game for Windows
Build a town of tiny engines that work together in this synergy filled turn based city builder. Add new buildings to your town as you strive to meet the ever-increasing demands of the queen. Each turn you earn gold not just from the building built, but everything built before.
Inspired by the likes of Islanders and Luck be a Landlord, Tiny Towns started from the idea of, "what if you made a deckbuilder where instead of building a deck of cards, you were building a town?"
- Build a different town each time, as you make do with what you are offered.
- Construct housing, agriculture, industry, commerce, and military structures.
- Gain items to passively boost your town.
- Use rerolls, removes, and triggers to strategically manipulate events in your favor.
- Play 4 different islands of increasing difficulty.
This is a free prototype, and is designed to give an idea of what the game could be. It's not fully featured and probably has some bugs.
If you like this, please let us know so we can decide whether to pursue it as a larger game.
The whole game can be played with the mouse:
- LMB to select and place buildings. LMB on existing buildings to examine.
- RMB to cancel.
- Hover over existing buildings to show ranges.
- Music by Steven Melin
- Mountain background by Captainskeleto
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Very good. I like.
Additive but after bulding many lighthouses and have many thunders, there is huge imbalance. I think you must have less buildings, and less complicated bonus.
While using wine on linux, it keeps on freezing when I try to change back focus to the game from alt-tabbing from another window. It is frustrating.
I have this effect sadly on many wine games. They must make linux versions too!
Addictive game, it becomes so enjoyable when things give bonus to each other and make huge money. Though there are some bugs and imbalanced items (like lemon farm, capitol), it still is a wonderful game. A tiny suggestion for selecting: lock the description for moving onto the card instead of hovering for specific time. It will improve the feeling very much.
Please, tell me that I'm not the only one who finds this game extremly hard but yet adictive
i love it, it definitedly will do great as a full game, it'd be great too if it had an endless option after doing the final objective like balatro
It's amazing! I love game like this, but when i played it, i feels some "uncommon". In short, my rate about this: 10/10. It's godness level.
By chance I had played the demos for two boardgamey/card-driven town-building games earlier in the evening before randomly stumbling into this. It was easily the most engaging and addictive of the three!
While I feel like I'm getting away with murder reactivating the Capitol over and over (lots of Monuments), it has a bit of that Balatro feel, where an absurdly powerful synergy feels more exciting than broken. So I'm sure there's some tuning to be done here, but if you can dial it in so those runaway cascades take work and perceptiveness to construct, I think you have a similarly magical formula here! Nice job!
When I zap a capitol, I somehow got twice the money:
Me too,
Absolutely love this game. It has that "one more go" factor. I can't get enough. I'd love to see this released as a full game. Donation sent!
Not bad game for relaxing.
finally beat 10000
Mausoleum is so incredibly strong and the only real way to go for high scores imo
hunting lodge is also really strong for how early you can build it and still holds up really well into late game
(edit) mausoleum produces gives double the amount it says it gives
How does one get mausoleum?
This is super cool! Seconding what someone said below, I found the UI a little unresponsive at times when selecting the buildings
Fantastic stuff, I'm hooked! Definitely could see this taking off like wildfire as a full release.
good core loop(like positive) but some issues with capitol card,bolt activation and need a lot of tuning, I can beta test btw haha. Although very addicting but progression and pacing need to be revaluated, so continue to develop because it's "FUN"
yeah capitol is kind of OP
very pretty and nice game, but yeah needs a lot of balancing, when final payment is 1000 and you have over 10000 saved it aint really a challenge, some common buildings are also way better than uncommon or even rares.
But yeah for a prototype, it's a lot of fun, finding broken or interesting combinations :DD
amethyst paired with repeatedly using the lightning bolt(?) on the wizard tower is an infinite money glitch. still fun to watch the numbers go up
also using it on capitol with a lot of monuments is game me 6000+ by the end of the first island
Just tried it out on stream and I loved it! Made mad bank making smoked beef pies haha. Looking forward to seeing more!
I just beat this game today. Absolutely fantastic. Very creative. I hope to see more in the coming future since this was just a demo!
AWESOME
just beat all 4 levels in 2.5 hours by abusing capitol + monument so i didnt really experience all the mechanics because i just wanted to win but even so the core gameplay is really fun and there are definitely so many ways to expand on the gameplay in a finished game. Would 100% buy a full release. also procedurally generated islands down the line would be cool.
I was never really a fan of city builders but the unique and challenging way this game is laid out sparked my interest and got me excited! I hope you dont mind but i did a lets play of your game. 😄
thats tough but very fun
I had fun playing this game! The UI, especially when selecting the buildings on the bottom, responds slowly or couldn't be selected most times. Overall though, would love a full release ;)
its beatiful
Great game, it's fun and challenging to discover. Encountered two minor bugs ; can't see the already built building description, and i feel like the "electric" perk every 3 rounds doesn't work for me.
Eager to see more updates on this
Hello there, we'd like to inquire whether you devs are interested in other languages. If so, we can offer Simplified Chinese translation for Tiny Towns. (We are serious!)
This is a really fun game.
Fun game, managed to beat all the leves. Its a bit sad that you sometimes dont get the tiles you want, so its harder to pull off certain strategies, but you have enough control about what you are doing for that to not be that big of a problem. Cow + Furnace is so OP, and capitals + lightning are as well. I found the apothecary and related buildings king of meh.
)OwO(
I just beat the game. Once I found a strategy with Pioneer Island I was able to build on that and beat the rest in a single day. Loved every minute. Cannot wait for a full featured version that adds to the challenge.
This game is really fun! I love it.
I was so fascinated by this gameplay.
Really fun to play, I've had it for almost a week now? and I've gotten hooked. I couldn't get past 110 tax on pioneer atoll (prolly bc i suck) but a full, polished release would be awesome. I've been looking for a simple game such as this. Some of the text/information boxes are cut off by the "cards" and the gray grate thing in the top left corner I couldn't read its information because it always goes out of the screen.
Very nice game, would love a full release!
cool
Very nice take on that game I forgot the name of, would pay to play.
Also, need bigger text and clearer info
Game good.
Game short.
Me want more game
Fun to play, the lightning in a bottle can be used only 1 time, idk why and if u click it while u can't use it, the 3 possible buildings vanish and u have to use a dice to continue, a lil unbalanced but very fun to play.