Publisher Kwalee and Station to Station developer Galaxy Grove have announced Town to City, a cozy city builder where you can build a 19th century Mediterranean town and help it flourish into a prosperous city. It will launch for PC via Steam in 2025.
“We’re thrilled to partner with Kwalee as our publisher!” said Galaxy Grove founder Joost van Dongen in a press release. “From the very beginning, they shared our passion for reimagining the city builder genre with a fresh twist. Their belief in our vision and their unparalleled in-house publishing expertise have been instrumental in bringing this project to life. Today, we’re excited to share our announcement trailer and can’t wait to continue this journey together as we bring our game to completion!”
Kwalee vice president of PC and console games Ben Forrester added, “Town to City is a fantastic addition to our portfolio of games. With Station To Station, the team at Galaxy Grove has shown their ability to create experiences loved by the community. We were excited by their vision for Town To City, and we’re thrilled to partner with them at Kwalee to bring that vision to life.”
Here is an overview of the game, via its Steam page:
About
Break free of the grid in Town to City: a cozy city builder that invites you to create a beautiful and bustling community.
Freely place houses, shops, and amenities and natural elements to delight your residents and encourage new families to move in. As your population grows, so can your ambitions: create multiple towns that can grow alone or thrive together, helping the whole region develop and prosper.
In story or sandbox mode, you’re free to build at your own pace, placing each flower bed with pixel precision, or prioritize growing your economy and developing your town into a thriving city.
Shape Your City
Truly grid-less building sets you free to lay out your town however you like. Plan out carefully ordered rows of houses and city districts, or grow outwards organically with residences, amenities, parks, and plazas connected by winding streets and alleys.
Unleash Your Creativity
Beautify your settlement to your heart’s content with a plethora of customization options. Set up lighting, plant flowers, and wooded parks, and decorate houses and buildings to complement or contrast. With gorgeous voxel graphics as a base, it’s easy to create something beautiful that you’ll want to capture with the in-game photo mode.
Nurture Your Community
As your town flourishes, you’ll need to meet the needs of your growing population. Provide amenities that will cater for everyone—from workers to artisans and the bourgeoisie—alongside specific requests by individual residents. Get to know each person as they arrive in town and watch them settle down to form new families in the homes you built for them.
Grow Your Economy
Assign workers to jobs, research new buildings and decorations, and boost your sleepy settlement into a bustling center of commerce. As you expand beyond the bounds of your first town, you’ll pursue new developments in farming and tourism by building new towns, all connected by trade and travel routes.
Key Features
- Full campaign and sandbox modes.
- Truly grid-less city building tools.
- Town and citizen management.
- Rich customization.
- Research trees.
- Photo mode.
- Beautiful voxel art style.
- Relaxing soundtrack.
Watch the announcement trailer below. View the first screenshots at the gallery.