The friendly city builder Townscaper is coming to Oculus Quest 2 later this year in a new VR port.
Townscaper received a warm reception when it was released on PC in 2021 and we believe it to be one of the best Android games available today. But the indie gem is about to get a whole lot more immersive, coming to the Oculus Quest 2 and Pico headsets on October 6.
The port will directly translate Townscaper to virtual reality systems. No more mouse clicks or screen taps, you'll stretch toy-like buildings, lay roads and paint cities with your hands.
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Townscaper is not so much a game as a creative sandbox, it allows you to build picturesque dioramas of cities. Each building you place will automatically merge and adapt to those around it, as stairs, courtyards, and roads emerge organically in reaction to architectural developments in your city.
Everything is very quiet. With no goals to meet, citizen demands to satisfy, or traffic to manage, Townscaper is a city builder in the most literal sense. It's pretty intuitive too. You can create a tiny floating village in seconds or spend hours propped up in a flying metropolis, carefully crafting every steeple and alley yourself to look like this.
Developer Oskar Stålberg teased the port in March of this year, sharing a clip of an early VR release on Twitter. In the attached thread, Stålberg described some of the challenges he faced in bringing the strategy game to VR systems while making it tactile and instinctive.
Looking at the basic design of virtual reality. The current idea is to use a point on a stick for interaction (instead of a raycast) so you can build in the air. These dots also serve as grab points for writing navigation. It feels tactile. pic.twitter.com/QvqoJzkn9yMarch 3, 2022
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Townscaper will change the other best virtual reality games currently available. But if you're considering making the switch to VR, you may want to wait. There has never been a worse time to buy an Oculus Quest 2.
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