Towns
Skip · Roguelike · 2012
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 0, under the fair line, at $4.99.
- Length
- 16.2h
- Value
- $0.31/hr
- Reviews
- 27% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, OpenGL 1.3. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The game brings a fresh new take on the city building/management genre by introducing many RPG features. In Towns you manage a settlement on top of an active dungeon. Instead of playing the hero who delves deep into the dungeon, how about playing the town that houses and caters to the hero's needs?
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
October 2019 is where it bottomed out, at $2.24. It has been discounted 79 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 60 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales.
It is cheaper than 78 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 99 percent. On the same math Craft The World ($18.99, scores 77) and Going Medieval ($29.99, scores 67) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
Of the 268 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to July 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 9 percent of the 503 reviews written there were positive, against 27 percent overall, and those are 21 percent of everything written about it.
Players
2 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 09:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
After 13 years of nothing and now the developer comes back to tell everyone the source code is released. No real explanation, no promise to work with whoever want to pick up the stick, just "here ya go, I'm out" For years the developer had the gull to ask 15 bucks for an unfinished product. The only reason so many people came back when the news popped is cause fans kept it alive. This is very much unfinished, and...
Really? You ghosted your customers since 2014, and come and act like you are doing a service to us by finally releasing the source code, and demanding that people pay 5 euro on abandonware. The audacity.
Its been a many years since I played this game. Its an adorable colony-sim thats a little rough on the edges yet impressively detailed compared to similar indie games. The Developer recently released the source code which I want to share my appreciation for. I think thats a great way to revitalize an old game and allow others to contribute and learn from it. For a 5€ game, I dont think the game deserve its negative...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Towns scores 0/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/221020/townsReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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