TownCraft app for iPhone and iPad
TownCraft is a surreal crafting and city-building game with no in-app purchases ever!
You are alone in the wilderness back in medieval times, and must start a new town to be the celebration of all the kingdoms!
To the West lies King Oligarchy, a narcissist primarily absorbed by his own reflection. To the East: Queen Omnibus, busy taming neighbouring kingdoms with the tip of her blade.
In between is you.
You begin by crafting the most basic of tools, tying a sharpened stone to a small piece of wood as a hatchet, but before long your town will be teeming and with travellers from all across the land. Theyll buy your wares at the local shops, come to check out the sights, have some food and drink at your tavern, theyll come looking to trade with you, or work for you. Fish, farm, forage, hire, fire, and explore the bizarre and unique world of TownCraft.
Stuff youll do in TownCraft:
* Play a new world every time – no two worlds will ever be the same thanks to procedurally generated maps!
* Test your skill at crafting, with hundreds of different objects to create.
* Build bridges, jetties, workshops and windmills as you create a fully functioning and self-sufficient town.
* Order around your muck-ridden peasants as they manage your gold mines, stone quarries, crop fields, lakes, shops and taverns.
* Play in a world with a real-time day and night cycle – watch as your workers wake up, go to work, hit the tavern to meet some passing travellers later at night and then get some shut-eye again.
* Explore each new world and unearth countless resources, from cotton to canary eggs, gold to grapes, wheat to wax and stone to silver.
* Follow an off-beat story as kingdoms vie for control.
* NO IN-GAME PURCHASES EVER! TownCraft is a full game with heaps to discover. You wont be bothered by prompts to share anything, buy anything, watch any ads or anything of the sort. Were not going to nickel and dime you. It annoys us to bits, so why would we do it to our fans?
TownCraft is the first game from Flat Earth Games, created by two brothers from Sydney, Australia and their team of intrepid developers.
You can find Flat Earth Games and its team hiding over at http://flatearthgames.com.au,
https://www.facebook.com/flatearthgames or
https://twitter.com/fegames
Pros and cons of TownCraft app for iPhone and iPad
TownCraft app good for
I have bought it yesterday and spent hours playing this game!!!!
I have to say I really like developers and the app. I saw a random overview of TownCraft the week of release and was already sold on it, I bought it right away. It is like this really cool hybrid between FarmVille, MineCraft, and Dont starve. without the pesky IAPs getting in the way.
Where TownCraft excels is by having this single player economy; you must maintain your employees while making sure you always have finished products to sell, the discovery system makes it more of a challenge.
This is by far one of the best crafting sim apps in the App Store. It has so much potential even in the week of release. They have already issued a bunch of updates. It is well worth the price and I look forward to what more these guys have in store for the future. Cheers to Flat Earth Games!
Work perfectly! Very nice game! Best crafting / gestion game!
I love this game, but I really want a multiplayer add because I want to build a town with my friends
Some bad moments
Does not save properly. Possibly due to memory constraints (5s) but you wont know until youve lost your work. Please do not buy this.
This was an awesome game. I enjoyed figuring out the different crafting recipes and the different scenarios were fun to play. While the game is a bit glitchy, pausing and going to the main menu fixes most issues. Its definitely a great alternative to the free to play model. Unlike other crafting games like Dont Starve, there is nothing hunt you down, so if you need that kind of drama, youll be disappointed. However, if you want a more sedate game, this one is great.
Ill be honest - I havent played enough for a solid review yet, but I was sad to see it still hasnt gotten a review, so I thought I would talk about what Ive seen so far.
The game seems like it took dont starve and mixed it with a similar idea to stone hearth (which isnt out yet.) The graphics are good - I especially love the tree swaying, it added to the scenery - the gameplay is smooth, and overall feels solid.
They have a tutorial, which is good but the swiping to close menus is a little odd at first. After some time, you get used to it. The only downside is the tutorial gives you the recipes for the starting equipment, but when you play the first map, your recipe guide is empty again and you have to remember everything you just learned from the tutorial. I kinda wish the tutorial lessons were always available in the recipe guide. A minor thing, but I thought Id mention it.
Im still on the first couple of maps, but I love the fact that there are quests! Its open ended, yet there is an ultimate goal. I love minecraft and junk jack, but I often get lost in how open ended it is - some direction is nice.
As for actual gameplay, the description is pretty good. You start a town, you build your own buildings and put things in them. You can hire people off the street to work for you, and merchants come to town and will buy goods from you, so you can pay the daily wages for the workers you just hired.
There a save system, so you can have multiple games going if you wanted, and so far it works just fine.
I dont have any complaints yet really (except the one I mentioned already), but I would be excited to see new recipes or even more animals added. So far Ive just seen birds and fish, but Im hopeful to be able to have a ranch at some point.
Overall, if you enjoy games like minecraft or dont starve, I recommend giving this one a try. Its solid, looks like good updates to come, and no stupid IAPs!
Im playing this on an iPad 4 with iOS 6.1.3 and I havent seen any bugs or technical issues yet. Happy gaming, and good job devs!
Absolutely wonderful game! I could not stop playing it. I have tried many games similar to this but this beats them all hands down. Mine lately has been crashing a lot, but that still does not overshadow how amazing this game is.
I do have to agree with lordsmapy. I am enjoying this game and hope to see it expand.
I like this game so far, but I feel stuck now. As of now I feel like I wasted $5.
More tutorials would be good.
Hints along the way would be nice too. Its too hard having to figure out how to make everything on your own. Like-How do you build a tavern? or boiled eggs? Or lanterns? Not as easy as you think.
Theres also some glitches. Sometimes people walk in place. And theres a worker who wont go sleep in a bed at night. All the other ones have their own little houses and theres one for him but he just stands there all night.
Id like to see some improvements for me to continue playing this game.
