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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.

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, ...

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 ...

Townscaper is everything I need right now. It's a relaxing, adorable escape from the real world. It's an outlet for creativity, and at the same time, evokes a longing for a place that doesn't really ...

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 ...

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 ...