Isle love the look of this
In these turbulent times, we could all do with a little more lo-fi in our lives. Delivering said remedy to the tickling of gentle piano and soft sunset palette hues isTranquil Isle, a lovely-looking combination of city-builder and resource-management roguelite drifting in on the waves later this year. (Or you can just make pretty islands, if you prefer.)
Tranquil Isle tasks you with filling a procedurally-generated island full of delightful little houses, lighthouses and more, with what looks to be a fairly generous building-placement mechanic similar to viral building toyboxTownscaperand its ilk. Each island will have a different theme - grasslands, desert, wintery and so on - and climate, with a day-night cycle dressing your burgeoning settlement in sundrenched pinks or moonlit blues appropriately as you arrange a variety of buildings and other landmarks around the isle.
The roguelite mode is one of two ways to play, requiring players up for a morepuzzle-likechallenge (thinkIslandersorDorfromantik) to tightly manage their resources and upgrades to ensure they can keep growing their town’s population. The other mode on offer, as you might expect, is a sandbox variant with no need to worry about running out of resources as you dot buildings around your island without restraints.
First-time indie developer Tom Daly is behind Tranquil Isle’s warm bath of a premise, joining up withGourdletsandSummerhousepublisher Future Friends Games to bring the cozy city-builder toSteamlater this year. Gosh, it looks lovely, doesn’t it?
