Go-Go Town! News

[p]Hello Mayors! 
[/p][p]With the Steam Summer Sale kicking off (and Go-Go Town! at our deepest discount yet!: 25% off!) we wanted to talk a bit about our upcoming Major Update, Tourist Trap. It’s coming out July 15th / 16th (depending on where you are in the world!) [/p][p]
But first! We’re so excited that we’ve got a great bundle with our friends at OddSparks and Little Big Workshop! You can nab all three games in a bundle, or fill out your building & automation portfolio if you’ve already got a copy of Go-Go Town![/p][p]
[dynamiclink][/dynamiclink][/p][p]We've got two main pillars of Tourist Trap, a huge overhaul to how tourists operate, and new industry features (more things to build, more complicated recipes), so let's dive in! [/p][p][/p][p]Tourist Updates 🎟️🏋🏼🛀🏾🔭 Tourists have always been opinionated, but now they're even moreso! Each type of tourists has their own preferences, desires, and traits, which influences how they rate your town. There are six desires: Entertainment, Rest, Hunger, Health, Exploration, and Shopping, and items will show you which category they are. Make sure to include a range of interests as you build up your town![/p][p]Food & Shopping Star Ratings ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Recipes for food and shopping now have star ratings, and your tourists will seek out things to eat and buy at different levels. Got too many 1 star food options? Your posh tourists will turn down their noses. But if you only have 3 star options, you'll annoy tourists with 1 and 2 star tastes—adjust accordingly! [/p][p]
[/p][p]Tourist Thought Bubbles 💬 You'll see little dialogue options pop up when they're pleased, angry, or looking for something your town doesn't have. This is all tracked in the Tourist Tracker, and don't worry—you can turn it off if it's too much!
[/p][p][/p][p]New Tourist Types 🧑🏽‍🌾 Worried about how all the picky tourists will influence your early gameplay? Don't worry! We've added a new type, Easy-Goers, that are pretty easy to please, and they'll show up when you build a new town. You'll be able to recognize them from their snazzy straw hats! PLUS we'll now officially have tourists like Dinosaurs, Robots, and Clowns to the tourist pool—but they've got a special way to arrive...[/p][p]Transit Terminals 🌋🌕🎪 Want those exotic tourist types in your town? (That is: Mummies, Werewolves, Aliens, Robots, Dinosaurs, Ghosts and Clowns) Each of these will now come to your town from a specific spawner. Build it, and you'll have your town flooding with that tourist. Don't ever want Clowns? You can always build their spawner and just never turn it on!
[/p][p][/p][p]New Townies 🐺👽🦖 And of course, we always need new Townies to put to work be valued members of our community. There will be 7 new townies, one each for the exotic tourist types, and they'll help you invite more of their kind into your town with that recipe for their specific Transit Terminal.[/p][p][/p][p]Major Landmarks 🏟️♨️ We've added four new BIG buildings you can build to support tourism in your town. Build the Lighthouse, Conservatory, Hot Springs, and Stadium to boost your tourists' desire for exploration, rest, health, and entertainment. These take up a lot of room and even more complicated materials, so start carving out space!
[/p][p][/p][p]Tier 3 Industry 🏭 If you want to build those Major Landmarks, you're going to have to build a Factory first. This will help you create new Tier 3 items: the expandable Rod, Encabulator Cube, Reinforced Brackets, and Structural Plating, all of which will be used in large-scale building. To make them, you'll need a lot of Tier 2 materials, so it'll put your supply chain to the test!
[/p][p][/p][p]Yum Grease! 🛢️ Want to get things moving in your factory? Maybe a way to... grease the wheels? Put your Deep Sea Cutlets in the Fish thing, and you'll make YUM GREASE™️. We've also added three new recipes to shops, so you'll be able to make Lava Lamps, Dirty Mags, and Seafood Sticks. Yum![/p][p][/p][p]Cliff Terraforming is here! ⛰️ Need more room for those major landmarks? TEAR DOWN THE CLIFFS! Once you've \[ REDACTED ], you'll be able to build and destroy cliffs to your heart's content across the main map![/p][p][/p][p]There's also a ton of QOL updates, and even some sneaky things we haven't even released to our Preview Branch yet! If you want to check it out now, you can opt in to our Preview Branch via the instructions below, which is where we test things out before they go live. Your save file will be safe, don’t worry! [/p][p][dynamiclink][/dynamiclink]Stay tuned on our social media for more deep dives about things in Tourist Trap, and we can’t wait to hear what you think of it![/p][p]Cheers,[/p][p]Emily and the Go-Go Town! team[/p]

[p]G’day mayors! [/p][p]Since we launched into Early Access one year ago, we’ve been totally blown away by the support and love the community has shown Go-Go Town! The last year has been absolutely chocka with activity:[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]And the rest of this year has even more things to come, as you might have already seen in our updated Roadmap: [/p][p][dynamiclink][/dynamiclink](but just in case you haven’t...) [/p]

• [p]Major Update 5: Tourist Trap launching on July 15th/16th (depending on where you are in the world)*[/p]
  • [p]Huge updates to tourist behavior[/p]
  • [p]Control which supernatural and otherworldly tourists visit your town[/p]
  • [p]New industry buildings and large-scale landmarks to build[/p]
• [p]Online Co-op (Major Update #6 if you’re counting) coming in late Q3 [/p]
  • [p]The one you’ve all been waiting for! [/p]
  • [p]Play with friends online and create the most chaotic town yet![/p]
• [p]Major Update 7: Wheels In Motion coming in Q4[/p]
  • [p]Stuck with a van in a color you don’t like—not anymore![/p]
  • [p]Lots of new updates to how you store, manage, & customize vehicles[/p]
  • [p]Yes, this means you can color the pillbug (you’re welcome)
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[p]*and if you want to get a sneak peek at Tourist Trap (which includes ability to destroy and build \[REDACTED]!, it’s currently available in the Preview Build right now![/p][p]So what’s after that, you might ask? Great question! Between all the incredible feedback we’ve received (and implemented!), new content added, and ramping up development for online co-op, we finally took a breath and locked in a release window for V1 (EXCITING!!). So mark your calendars because…[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]We’re reading your feedback, hearing your requests, and we have a lot of exciting things planned for V1 - some we can talk about, some we might not be able to share for some time! 😉But we’re so excited as to what V1 will bring.[/p][p]So from the bottom of our hearts, thank you SO much for sticking with us so far, and we cannot wait to see around town in 2026 for the full game launch. [/p][p]The Go-Go Town! team[/p]

Hello Mayors!

This year, as always is moving quickly, and we wanted to pop in to give you an overview of our plans for the upcoming year! We’ve been deep in the throes of online co-op, and finding new things to optimize every day. But we’ve also been cooking up some new things for you before co-op!

Tourists: you love them, you wish they would stop littering everywhere—what if you could read their minds? What if they also had specific wants for food, shopping, and entertainment? Great news! We’ll be doing a complete overhaul of how tourists work for our next Major Update called (appropriately) Tourist Trap, which will add new strategy for both early and late-game players. Stay tuned, as this is almost ready to go into Preview Build, and if you’re wiling to dive in, we’d love to have feedback about it!

And here’s our beautiful looking roadmap for 2025, with a look at what we’ve done early in the year as well as what’s coming up:



Also, this week is the beginning of the Cozy & Family-Friendly Games Celebration on Steam, and Go-Go Town! is 20% off as a result. There are also some great games and demos available, so we wanted to showcase a few demos and games we’ve been enjoying

[h3]TAVERN KEEPER (DEMO)[/h3]
Our friends at Greenheart Games have released their demo of a tavern management sim, and it’s just a delight (and of course we’re fans of management games!). Hire workers, figure out layouts, temperature, filth level, unlock new drinks and meals and be the best Tavern Keeper you can be.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2833530/Tavern_Keeper__Demo/
[h3]TINY BOOKSHOP (DEMO)[/h3]
We’ve been excited for this one for a while—and they just announced a release date for this August! Manage your own mobile bookshop, travel around, meet customers, stock books they need. A beautiful game, and the devs are very nice (we were both at the Indie Arena Booth at Gamescom)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2133760/Tiny_Bookshop/
[h3]IS THIS SEAT TAKEN (DEMO)[/h3]
From Wholesome Games’s publishing arm, this is a cute puzzler where you have to figure out how to place people in a scene where they’re all satisfied. Trickier than it looks, but really satisfying controls and cute to boot.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3035120/Is_This_Seat_Taken/
[h3]ISLANDS AND TRAINS (OUT NOW!) [/h3]
A beautiful diorama creator focused on—you guessed it—islands and trains. It’s very meditative and calming, a great little way to give your brain a break if you’ve been deep in other games (ask us how we know)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1957760/Islands__Trains/

Now go get playing!

Cheers,

Emily and the Go-Go Town! team

Hello Mayors!

Happy April! We wanted to focus this update on what’s next on our plate and talk through what that process has been like. That’s right, it’s time to talk ONLINE CO-OP!

We know this has been a very, very, very requested feature, and even we ourselves are excited for it. BUT it does involve a lot of work (but it’s worth it). When we start accounting for things like lag, we have all sorts of new variables like “if your friend’s internet lags, and they spend all your money, what happens if you try and spend your money?” Some very fun thought experiments!

But the great thing is we’re making progress:

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…despite some bug squashing that we still need to do, as you can see! 😅

But we’re very excited for you to get to take a turn soon. And yes, this does mean that there will be no split screen for online co-op!

We’ll share more information as we get it, so stay tuned here and on social and in Discord. It will probably spend quite a bit of time in the Preview Branch, so we’ll appreciate all the stress testing that we can when we push it there (and we’ll let you know, don’t worry!)

Thank you for your patience as we’ve been heads down in this since Spring Cleaning came out, and we’ll definitely be sharing more updates as we get closer to launch.

Cheers,

Emily and the Go-Go Town! team

Hello Mayors! 

We’re so excited that our fourth Major Update: Spring Cleaning, is now available! We hunkered down and focused on quality of life improvements, and they include some pretty major ones that we know you all have been looking for! ✨ And with the Spring Sale kicking off, the game is now 20% off! ✨

You can check out the full patch notes here, but we’ve listed out some key ones below as well: 

Personal Vehicle & Tools 🪚🚙 You can now store a tool and a vehicle in a patented TownCo Dimensional Pockets, allowing quick an easy access at a moments notice! Includes a new UI Widget to help track your currently stored items.

Town Info App ℹ️ Everything you want to know about your town - now in the palm of your hand! What fitouts you have, where your workers are, what shops need what food, housing, and more. It'll alert you when there's a problem (Mana Extractor is full, NPC is stuck trying to get where they want to go) too!

360° Camera Rotation 🔁🎥 You've asked for it, we've... put it as an experimental setting for you to rotate the camera 360°! Head to options and you'll be able to turn this on, and you can rotate to your heart's content. You can also increase the orbit a bit more horizontally for non-experimental play!

Rotate NPC housing 🔁🏘️ Build the apartment and housing blocks of your dreams. You can now rotate small houses and apartments in any direction you'd like! They also now have a visual indication if there's an empty spot to add a townie in

Animal Feed Refinement 🐄 Tired of those feed drops cluttering up your farm? No longer! We've added a new machine, the Automated Feed Maker, which generates feed over time, so you can have a farm for your animals with none of those pesky crops.

Trader Improvements 🛍️ We've got a few updates for the Traders, but first up: a new UI! You can purchase as many items as you want from available stock, can buy from their back catalog AND can see that there are items you have yet to collect!

Managed Stalls 🛒 You can now set up to 5 items on Market Stalls and Vending Machines for couriers to auto-deliver!

Music Updates 🎶 We've added new music AND now have multiple playlists you can choose from based on your vibe. Will you choose "Mega Mingle" "Lo-fi and Chill" or "Funk n Bop"? And if you're not vibing with a song, remove it entirely, or if you really like it, create a playlist of your favorites.

Light in Dark Spaces 💡 Fear caves and sewers no more - you'll have a light around you in dark environments to help show the way.

Text And Drive 🤳🏼 Wait no! Well, you can now access your phone while riding a vehicle or using a tool. Please use SlothOS responsibly

New food cart 🌮 Hungry? The new Tac-Oh! truck with its taco recipe is sure to give your tourists what they need.

Crab & Lobster Pots 🦀🦞 There's a new pot, the Lobster Pot, which only harvests lobsters. This means the normal Crab Pot will now only catch crabs (and has a snazzy new look). They'll take a bit more time now to harvest - but worth the wait!

[h3]…and much, much more:[/h3]

Scooter 🛵 You saw it in the demo, it got removed and we didn't realize it (whoops!), but it's BACK - a scooter of your very own to import.

Infinite Seeds 🌱 Now your farmers are pulling their weight! Seeds are now infinite, and can be planted as many times as you want. Crops will now automatically reset after harvest too!

Weather Randomization 🌸☔️ Ironically, this means weather will now follow a more predictable pattern. Cherry Blossoms for all!

Fourth Worker Slot for Industries 👥👥 Put even MORE townies to work with a fourth slot now available for the Mining, Forestry and Fishing Zones

Customization & Color Palette Improvements 🎨 Even more things to be painted: bridges, garbage bins, and things in the park (swings, slide, lights, bench). We've also made the color palette tool even better, and you can cycle through colors in a swatch!

Key rebinding ⌨️
Alternative Milk 🫛 There are now non-dairy cheese and butter recipes for the Dairy Maker. Start planting your soy beans! We've also updated Challenge 04 to ask you to build a dairy maker instead of a cow stall, in case you don't want to build an animal farm at all.

New Exterior Visuals 🆕 A fresh coat of paint and adjustments on things. Rustic Picnic Table and Outdoor Settings are now dockable, car parks and bike racks have variants. You can now build in the Alien spawning zone. Four new channels to set the TV to. And more!

…and of course, we couldn’t help ourselves and added a few new decor items too! 



Cheers,

Emily and the Prideful Sloth team