All posts tagged in City Builder
May 11, 2026
Communite is the wholesome multiplayer city builder you’ve been looking for! This cozy game is built on kindness and teamwork. You and other players will work to restore life to the world by growing it through unlocking tiles and collecting cute critters. Decorate the world with your favorite plants. Create sandy deserts, vast oceans, or hidden volcanic islands. Even grow crops like carrots. The world is yours to build, and only your imagination is the limit. So, team up with friends and other cozy gamers in this free-to-play game and see what you can create!
Release Date
Communite is listed on Steam, but is not available yet. It also doesn’t have a release date listed. However, the Steam page states the game is in Alpha, so it’s early days still. Add the game to your Wishlist to keep track of it!
- Feb 18, 2026
In Scaling Up, you are a small dragon who is building a unique kind of ranch. Your goal is to raise all kinds of interesting snake varieties! Build facilities and homes to support your snakes. Take care of them to keep them happy and healthy. Collect their scales to build, craft, and more.
Discover and collect a variety of fun types of snakes in Scaling Up. Some can even be assigned tasks to help take the load off of you. Organize expeditions to gather rare materials. Upgrade tools. Decorate your ranch to make it super cozy, too. Even perform research to advance the ranch, and do so much more!
Release Date
You can find Scaling Up on Steam now! There’s also a demo to try before you buy.
- Dec 6, 2025
Go-Go Town has reached its 6th major update, and it’s an excellent one. If you’re unfamiliar with this brightly colored game, it’s a fun city builder where you’ve finally landed your dream job of mayor. Of course, you were promised a city surrounded by rolling hills and home to friendly locals. What they failed to mention is the whole place is failing and pretty empty. Your job is to revitalize this poor town!
Your role as mayor is easy on paper. In reality, there’s a lot more running around and physical labor to do. You’ll build the town from the ground up. Literally. Plot out homes, shops, and facilities. Collect the resources necessary to build these places, and then build them. At first, it’s only you, but as you invite more residents to live in new homes, you can assign them to run shops and facilities. Automating things will make life much easier on you, but your job is never done!
Co-op Update
The recent update adds even more cozy fun to Go-Go Town, too. You can finally play co-op with a total of 4 players. You can also mix online and local players in the same game. There are 3 tiers to assign players to (Vice Mayor, Townie, and Tourist) that enables certain permissions with building, importing, etc. Text chat, location ping, and a new location widget will help you find your friends anywhere on the map (and them find you). Emotes add in a little bit of communication fun, too. And if someone needs to leave mid-game session, all of their stuff drops in a duffle bag so you can grab anything they had.
Of course, there’s so much more to this update than just the long-awaited co-op. You can now rotate shops and buildings. The train station and zone entrances can be moved and rotated for more creative design freedom. Plus, there’s fast travel, new tools to discover, food to eat, garbage to dine on (maybe don’t do this), and items to throw! There are 6 new vehicles to own, too. The Hooptie, Hackney Motorbike, Good-e Bike, Flying Broom, and Galaxy Bouncer will add extra fun to moving around town. There’s also 9 new townies, new player clothing, and new decorative items. So, grab some friends and go see what you can create!
Where to Find Go-Go Town
You can grab this entertaining city builder over on Steam now!
- Jun 18, 2025
Cardboard Town by Stratera Games is a vibrant roguelite city-building card game. In front of you is a board where your new town will pop-up as you play. To build the town, you’ll use your money in order to deploy build cards. Play action cards to take care of events that randomly show up. And quest cards are for making your population happy.
Make sure you appropriately manage your utilities like electricity, water, environment, and safety, too. Better management in Cardboard Town leads to a better city with a higher population, and your population determines your income! Without money, you can’t play cards. So carefully balance building, upgrades, and events to achieve the best city you can. If you can’t handle disasters or fail to manage things, you’ll receive a Red Alert. Get three of those, and it’s game over. However, each run will unlock new cards and better stats so you have more chances to beat your high score!
Release Date
You can find Cardboard Town on Steam now!
- Mar 13, 2025
Go-Go Town is an excellent city builder game where you play as the newly minted mayor of a run-down town. This town was once a bustling hub of tourist activity, but now it’s a ghost town. Your job is to restore it by building food stalls, shops, attractions, and even homes. Revive the local resource industry to gather the materials needed to build the town into an exciting place to visit. Even explore some hidden areas to discover fun secrets and new vehicles you can travel with!
Spring Cleaning Update
The devs behind Go-Go Town have been incredible at listening to community feedback, and have given players some really great new content. There have been some really cute decorative items added for Lunar New Year. You can also decorate a player house to make the perfect cozy environment to relax in. Plus the Dinkum collab, a bigger map to explore and build on, zone customization, fast travel, more decor items, and so much more.
Now we have the Spring Cleaning update! This is the fourth major update for the game and adds even more great content. You’ll be able to rotate the camera 360° so you can see your gorgeous little town from every angle. To go along with the camera rotation, houses and apartments can now be rotated and placed in any direction! Get even more creative with your designs now.
Go-Go Town Couriers will deliver up to 5 different items to market stalls to keep them stocked and operating. Of course, you can still add items yourself, but this will help you better run the stalls. The trader UI has been improved, and lets you buy as many items as you want from available stock, purchase from the back catalog, and you can view items you have yet to collect. Automated feeders will be available for purchase, too, making your farm animals happy!
But Wait, There’s More!
Store your tools and personal vehicle in a fancy new dimensional pocket. Explore your town’s information like what fitouts you have, where your workers are, and more all through the new Town Info App. There’s so much more fun music to love, too, and you can now make playlists to suit your tastes. You’ll find a new food truck to set up in your town. Caves and sewers aren’t as dark as they once were. Plus, you can access your phone while in a vehicle, too! Don’t forget to check out all the fun new decor, either.
Available Now
Of course, there’s much more to Go-Go Town‘s Spring Cleaning update than just all of this. You can find the full update log on Steam now!
- Sep 19, 2024
The incredibly addictive and adorably cute Go-Go Town recently released an exciting new update that expands what you can do in the game. In this cozy city builder, you’ve been placed as mayor to a once-bustling tourist town. However, it’s now a little rundown and needs some rejuvenation. That’s where you come in! Establish industry zones to provide jobs for townies. Build shops and parks and other attractions to attract visitors. Go exploring, decorate and design the town to create a beautiful wonderland, and so much more!
This new update, titled Build and Bustle, adds some great new community-led content. It also brings new customizations for you to enjoy while decorating your dream town. You can look forward to more space, zone customization, fast travel, and more.
Expanded Town Map
Pay a visit to Stanley S. Trollson, your local real estate agent, to expand your town map with 5 new areas. That’s right, you’re no longer confined to such a small space! Now, you can build the different Go-Go Town districts you dreamed of. Design sleepy, residential streets away from the hustle and bustle of industrial blocks. Decorate and create the perfect tourist areas or even a large green space to relax in. Let your creativity free with this new, larger map, and see what you can dream up.
Zone Customization
Every single zone on the map can now be customized to suit your tastes. Yes, EVERY zone. So, now you can really get creative and make your town as unique and awesome as you want! Tweak the size of each zone, the layout can be edited, and the location of each space can be changed. That means you can turn the farm zone into a series of micro farms instead of one big one. Or, you can shrink the fishing zone and make the forestry zone bigger to change production. There’s even mine shafts now, so you won’t be running out of resources any time soon.
Fast Travel and Summoning Vehicles
With a bigger town map comes more walking, running, and putting around which can all be a chore. Except the Go-Go Town Build and Bustle update now lets you fast travel. Use the brand new subway system to get around quickly. Even your townies and tourists can make use of it to reach their destinations faster. Or if you’re out exploring with your trusty bike and get distracted by something fun, forgetting where you’ve left the bike, you can now summon it! Place vehicle racks and car parks around your town so you can easily summon your lost vehicle to you instead of searching high and low for it. You could even use the racks to tidy up the streets and have a place to keep all your vehicles, too.
But Wait, There’s More!
Even with these other great features, you’re getting spoiled with even more excellent content with Go-Go Town Build and Bustle. There are now 6 new townies to collect, along with new cosmetics for yourself like hairstyles, dresses, glasses, hats, a backpack, and new legs. Plus, over 70 new thingamajigs. From Roman-style columns, road bridges, giant chess pieces, flowers, and so much more to decorate with and have fun. Or explore the new Hedge Maze for a fun solo exploration, but make it even more fun with friends. And don’t forget the loot!
Release Date
The Go-Go Town Build and Bustle update is available now on Steam! And what better time to jump back into this amazing game than now. Or if you haven’t played yet, there’s no time like the present to pick it up and get started on a brand new city-building journey!
- Sep 4, 2024
If you love cats and casual city builder games, then look no further than Katsl! Developed by Kofka.games, this adorable little sandbox game takes place in the island town of Katsl, a curious place inhabited only by cats. There, you can unleash your creativity by building up that town and creating the purrfect haven for your furry friends. Each cat even has their own story to discover!
Katsl doesn’t require you to plan, organize, gather, or schedule your builds. Simply just click to build block by block. Create sweeping castles and humble abodes. Get to know your residents, too. Each one has their own hopes, dreams, and personalities. You can even help them achieve their dreams as your work to become their friends. So, build a beautiful town and care for your new furry friends!
Release Date
Katsl is planned to release on Steam at some point. There is no release date listed, though.
Check out Tiny Glade for more cozy building.
- Jun 14, 2024
Thank you to Prideful Sloth and CULT Games for this early access copy!
Go-Go Town is an adorable city builder and management game where you’re the mayor. Your job is to plan, build, and prosper! Rise through the ranks as you surpass other towns as a prime tourist spot. Turn the rundown town from not to hot by cleaning it up and building things people want to see. Food stalls, knick knack shops, and beautiful parks all make for a fun experience for visitors. There’s a little more to it than just building things people want to see, though. Being mayor isn’t easy!
What’s New
The first time I was given the chance to play Go-Go Town, it was a simple and limited playtest that barely scratched the surface of the game. This time, there’s so many new features and cool additions to the game that it’s like playing a whole new thing! There are new areas to explore, upgrades and progression that didn’t exist, plus fun cosmetics.
You now start the game with a humorous and easy tutorial that walks you through how to play while setting up a simple story behind why you’re suddenly a mayor. You can access the information via your in-game phone at any time, too. Then, you’re set off on your own to explore town and do almost anything you want. You are limited in what you can build until you unlock more things. However, you can build something and move it any number of times you want with ease. So it’s easy to redesign if you change your mind!
As the mayor in Go-Go Town, your prime objective is to restore the town. To do that, you’ll build interesting attractions to lure in visitors. To do that, you’ll need construction materials! Go mine some stone to turn into bricks, and cut down trees to turn into planks. Eventually, you can automate those jobs by hiring some of your new inhabitants. As you progress further through the game, you’ll be able to automate just about everything from farming and fishing, to courier services and trash pick up. In order to progress, you earn EGO points you can use to unlock more options. You’ll get the chance to have town decorations, upgrades to farming, fishing, mining, and forestry, as well as new home types, shops, and more! Progression is easy, but still satisfying.
What Else Is New
Your handy in-game phone now has several apps to help you manage your town, too. The tourist tracker lets you know if any of the visitors are unhappy so you can fix the problem. The calendar shows you what time trains arrive, but also lets you schedule your leaderboard challenges. These challenges can be scheduled once you’ve bought every EGOTech currently available, and completing a challenge increases your town rank, unlocking more EGOTech to buy. Challenges are pretty easy to complete, and can be rescheduled with no negative outcomes should you fail. My first challenge needed me to earn 100 coins (which will happen through your shops), build some shops, and build a few lamp posts. The leaderboard app shows you how your town ranks amongst other towns. Keeping an eye on your apps will help you learn how to progress, but also lets you see how far you’ve come!
The potential new residents that show up in Go-Go Town now require you to meet some demands before they’ll accept an invite to move in. That means you’ll need to pay a fee, build something specific, or even just give them a high five! You can then assign them to a specific home and give them a job. Hiring residents will help you automate the town and take some tasks off your plate. If you’re getting overwhelmed, though, you can close the train station to visitors. This lets you restock shops, redesign and redecorate, build, clean up the trash and spills left behind, or even explore the new areas and biomes in peace! Of course, you won’t earn any money, but that’s an easy trade-off for momentary peace.
While you’re designing the town, don’t forget to give yourself a redesign! Visit the little kiosk next to the train station to change your hair, facial features, and clothes. As you find loot throughout the world, they’ll be sent to this kiosk. So, you can change clothes and add fun accessories like heart-shaped glasses. There are even a variety of hats to choose from, plus different baskets to carry your stuff in.
Overall
Go-Go Town is such a great game. It’s exactly as chill as you need it to be since you can close the train station, but even then, it’s not an overly demanding or hectic game. The art is lovely. The music is perfect and not overwhelming. Being able to decorate and manage a town makes for a cool concept, but with the addition of the progression tiers, it’s a super engaging game. There are an almost endless list of possibilities for your little town, too!
There is a new demo available for the current Steam Next Fest, too. Even more exciting is Early Access drops on Steam June 18th! That’s just next week. So, if you haven’t already, add the game to your Steam Wishlist to be notified when it’s live.
