Oskar Stålberg contemplates Townscaper's surprise success and the proliferation of other low stress building games. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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There are certain sorts of zen experiences available on systems. They aren’t games, but rather exist to give people a space to create and enjoy, perhaps in a game-like manner by experimenting and ...

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 ...

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, ...

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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 ...