Town to City Brings A Cozy City Builder To The Market in 2025

Written by Brandon Hofer on January 30, 2025

News: A new city builder that promises to be cozy and have a lot of freedom for creativity will arrive in 2025.

UK-based games publisher Kwalee and independent developer Galaxy Grove have announced that their new game, Town to City, will be released on PC via Steam in 2025. Town to City is a charming city-building game where players can build an idyllic 19th century Mediterranean town and help it flourish into a prosperous society. They can freely place and customize each element to create the perfect home for their growing population in this cozy city builder from the creators of Station to Station.

"We’re thrilled to partner with Kwalee as our publisher! From the very beginning, they shared our passion for reimagining the city-builder genre with a fresh twist. Their belief in our vision and their unparalleled in-house publishing expertise have been instrumental in bringing this project to life. Today, we’re excited to share our announcement trailer and can’t wait to continue this journey together as we bring our game to completion!", said Joost van Dongen, Founder of Galaxy Grove

"Town To City is a fantastic addition to our portfolio of games. With Station To Station, the team at Galaxy Grove has shown their ability to create experiences loved by the community. We were excited by their vision for Town To City, and we’re thrilled to partner with them at Kwalee to bring that vision to life", said Ben Forrester, VP of PC & Console at Kwalee.

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 the campaign or sandbox mode, you're free to build at your own pace, placing each flower bed with pixel precision or prioritising 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.

Unleash Your Creativity

Beautify your settlement to your heart's content with a plethora of customization 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, it's easy to create something beautiful you'll want to capture with the in-game photo mode.

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 farmers and 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.

Grow Your Economy

Assign workers to jobs, research new buildings and decorations, and boost your sleepy settlement into a bustling center of commerce. As you expand, you'll pursue new developments in farming and tourism taking your economy to greater heights.

Some of the key features that will be included in Town to City include:

Full Campaign and Sandbox Modes

Truly grid-less city building tools

Town and citizen management

Rich customization

Research Trees

Photo Mode

Beautiful Voxel art style

Relaxing Soundtrack

Take a look at the trailer below and then tell us what you think about Town to City. Will you play this cozy city builder when it arrives?