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Poly Towns is a town-building game set on floating islands where you construct settlements and manage resources across a fantasy archipelago. The core loop involves planning layouts, gathering materials, and expanding your towns through resource management and strategic building placement. While the concept shows promise, technical issues at launch—including graphical glitches, input problems, and visibility concerns—detract from what could be an engaging casual builder for fans of relaxed city-planning games.

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What players are saying

▼ Not recommended 0 hrs

I like the premise, but for 1.0 release, this is quite disappointing mostly because of these three things:

- Graphical / Sound settings are not properly saved
- Game gets (graphically) stuck at dawn every once in a while and requires you to reload
- Night is too long and too dark to properly see what you are doing

This is something I would be able to understand for an Early Access title, but for a full release with 1.0, these things are a clear oversight. Please fix these bugs and until they are fixed, I wouldn't recommend buying this right now.

94 found helpful Steam ↗

▼ Not recommended 3 hrs

It's an interesting little game but there are some quite serious flaws here.

- Sometimes you just can't click on things. Sometimes you click on something and nothing happens. You have to exit back to the menu and then go back in.

- The tutorial is quite limited and gives you all the information before you can try making any of it actually work. I restarted after a bit of confused faffing about.

- The buttons and controls are quite clunky. The buttons seem to divide up the functions in ways that aren't very helpful and you can spend quite a lot of time clicking things (with the wrong button pressed) without realising why nothing is happening.

- Sometimes phantom green ghost structures appear on your map or on locks sections of it for no reason. Sometimes you can't set workers to do any work. Sometimes things are just a bit broken.

I'm going to keep playing, but so far there doesn't seem to be much challenge in the gameplay to balance out the challenge in getting the controls working. It doesn't seem to make any difference whether your people are happy or not, and I don't find myself really caring whether or not they are. There's no real satisfaction in building and growing your town.

37 found helpful Steam ↗

▲ Recommended 2 hrs

I enjoyed my ~2 hours with this game, and the main reason I am recommending it is because the developer responded to a Steam-related bug within hours - truly remarkable. The developer seems to have moved on to another project but there is so much potential that this game just doesn't quite hit, so here's a quick list of some major things I would like to (but probably never will) see implemented:

Money shows income and expense, food only shows usage - one has no idea if production is net positive except by watching supply over a few "cycles"
Food production and usage does not line up with stated "cycles"
There is no way to know the function of a building without trying to build it (no "query")
Homes can catch fire (and they will, often) - it costs 500 to repair but there is no downside (besides the visual) to just letting them burn - forever

System Info & Performance Report

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[td]Operating System[/td]
[td]Ubuntu Linux 16.04 x64[/td]
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[td]CPU[/td]
[td]Ryzen 5 1500x[/td]
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[td]GPU[/td]
[td]GTX 1050, nvidia-396[/td]
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[td]Game Saves[/td]
[td]Automatically on exit, 1 slot only[/td]
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[td]Notes[/td]
[td]Responsive developers are worth supporting[/td]
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[td]Technical Notes[/td]
[td]A few graphical glitches but nothing game-breaking; several minor interface bugs[/td]
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22 found helpful Steam ↗

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Latest updates

Spiritual Successor

1558 days ago

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/24326131/b8a918e9b4f9f17799a4011c2ca595a54ce55bc1.png This summer I will be releasing Poly Skies, the spiritual successor to Poly Towns. Poly Skies is a casual village builder and colony sim designed to help you relax. Take care of your villagers who are seeking refuge from dangers below the clouds. Add Poly Skies to your wishlist and follow me on Discord for updates, offer suggestions or have a chat! Thank you for everything, see you there! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/24326131/c481a401680aa6b7befb60700dba1a79622b1c22.png

UPDATE 3.0

2990 days ago

Hi all! I'm happy to announce Poly Towns has now been updated to version 3.0. You can find the changes below, as well as a special bundle that Poly Towns is currently participating in. INDIEGALA BUNDLE: If you would like to buy this game in a bundle, it is currently on sale in the IndieGala Galactic Strike Bundle, which will run for 21 days, ending on Tuesday the 12th of June. https://www.indiegala.com/indiegala-galactic-strike-steam-bundle ADDED - Support for Mac OS X - Support for Linux - Support for DX12 - Support for 64-bit architecture - Game settings are now accessible in the main menu - Selecting a skybox color is now shown in the main menu - Resolution options - New villager model/animations - Added a couple of goals which can act as a win scenario - Added animated water and waterfalls - Added VSync toggle UPDATED: - Updated engine to Unity 2018.2.0b2 - Changed Color Space to Linear - Improved Fog - Updated Steamworks integration - Improved user interface visuals - Added tooltips to main game buttons - Improved camera controls - Game files size has been lowered - Updated color palette for models - Updated details on some building models - Removed aurora particle effect - Removed snow weather - Removed monument, served no purpose - Updated tutorial - Updated fire particles - Updated lightning effects - Stopping building fires now requires 500 coins - Building fires now less frequent - Adding more starting coins - Market building now gives you a share of coin PERFORMANCE: - Improved villager AI performance - Code related to weather has been optimised - Optimised user interface - Scripting backend is now IL2CPP for Windows FIXED: - Fixed villagers with jobs skipping the journey to their assigned job - Camera smooth speed no longer effected by game speed - Shadows no longer disabled by default - Shadow strength now correct on new day - Main menu music volume now matches saved volume level - Lights at night now turn off at sunrise - Fixed market not showing it's ...

UPDATE 3.0 - Coming May 23rd

3005 days ago

Hello! Update 3.0 will be arriving on the 23rd of May this month, at around 12:00pm GMT+1. Full patch notes will be posted at the time. Best regards, Matthew Red Phoenix Studios

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