Town to City

Town to City

Released May 2026

Build an idyllic 19th century Mediterranean town and help it flourish into a prosperous city. Freely place and customise each element to create the perfect home for your growing population in this cozy city builder from the creators of Station to Station.

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Evaluation

Town to City entered Early Access in September 2025 and graduated to its full 1.0 release on May 26, 2026. During Early Access, Galaxy Grove delivered a strong and consistent stream of major updates: the Animals Update (November 25, 2025) added pets, livestock, new buildings, and a new sandbox map; the Terraforming Update (March 17, 2026) introduced terrain shaping, water tools, bridges, and extensive quality-of-life improvements; and the Cherry Blossom Update (May 5, 2026) added seasonal decorations and significant CPU performance improvements. The 1.0 launch itself brought a new campaign map (Rocemarée), tourist routes, hotels, the Art Atelier, and City Hall departments. Critically, at 1.0 launch the developer stated explicitly: "Don't worry, this isn't the end! We'll be making more updates past 1.0, taking your feedback into account" — and included a post-launch roadmap image. True to that promise, the Construction Update shipped on July 20, 2026 (version 1.0.4), adding a new construction-themed decoration pack and bug fixes. This is the most recent major update as of the assessment date of August 18, 2026, just under four weeks ago. The pattern across the full development timeline shows major updates arriving roughly every 6–10 weeks. Given that history, the most recent update on July 20, 2026 places the game well within the expected window for the next update. The two available DLC items (soundtrack and digital artbook) are companion content, not gameplay expansions.
Evidence
Construction Update (v1.0.4) shipped post-1.0, adding a new construction-themed decoration pack and bug fixes, confirming the developer is actively delivering on its post-launch update promise.
news post · Jul 20, 2026 source content shipped
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At the 1.0 launch, the developer explicitly stated 'Don't worry, this isn't the end! We'll be making more updates past 1.0' and shared a post-launch roadmap image.
news post · May 26, 2026 source content planned
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Content

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Details

Developer
Publisher
Kwalee
Achievements
38
Platform
Windows
Controller
—
Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player

About this game

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 prioritise 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. Freely shape the land beneath your feet with terraforming tools for elevation, water, and terrain.

Unleash Your Creativity

Beautify your settlement to your heart's content with a plethora of customisation 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 and plenty of tools for fine-tuning, it's easy to create something beautiful that you'll want to capture with the in-game photo mode or stroll through in first-person view.

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 with pets and livestock by their side.

Grow Your Economy

Assign workers to jobs, research new buildings and decorations, and boost your sleepy settlement into a bustling centre 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

  • Truly grid-less city building

  • Full campaign and sandbox modes

  • Land and water terraforming

  • Rich customisation, with hundreds of decorations and detailed placement tools

  • Photo and first-person modes

  • Multiple towns with agriculture and tourism links

  • Town and citizen management views

  • Research trees for buildings, technology, and decorations

  • Pets and livestock

  • Beautiful voxel art style

  • Relaxing soundtrack by Paul Aubry

Last evaluated Aug 18, 2026
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