About the Game

Choo choo! The train is pulling into the station, bringing the very first batch of gourdlet citizens to their new island home. Your job is to build them a perfect town.
But don’t worry – Gourdlets are super laid back, and they’ll be happy no matter what you build. The only real challenge is pleasing yourself!
From cafes to lighthouses, planters to fountains, there’s a huge catalogue of decorations to play with. You can even go inside buildings and arrange the furniture how you like.
The gourdlets will make themselves at home in your town, fishing, reading, camping, snoozing, and generally having a grand old time. Craft the perfect veggie town in Gourdlets!
You can choose to play in full screen, or in “idle window mode” to let your gourdlets hang out at the bottom of your screen while you get on with other things on your PC.
Features:
- Build a perfect town and watch the adorable gourdlets inhabit your world!
- A super chill game with no objectives or fail states!
- Gourdlets hang out at the bottom of your screen in idle window mode!
- Customize your Gourdlet citizens with cute accessories!
- Day-night cycles and customizable weather!
- A huge catalogue of buildings and decorations!
- Choose from a variety of starter maps for an extra creative challenge!
- Zero currency! (Capitalism makes the gourdlets tired)

Screenshots
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Version Information
Steam Patch Notes
Official update history
Just addressing more edge cases reported by gourdlets players in discord
In that patch, I solved an issue that arose when a gourdlet who was on a building’s guest list was deleted, but anyone who ran into that issue prior to my fix would have ended up with a corrupted savefile.
In this patch, I wrote an update that fixes those corrupted savefiles. With this patch, no action is needed by the user, and the previously corrupted savefile should just work!
Ghost gourdlet named "Null"
In my previous patch, I added the ability to delete gourdlets. I did not realize that an issue would arise when you try to delete a gourdlet that is already included in a building's guest list. This patch fixes the issue.
If anyone ran into this issue and got to a corrupt savefile, please feel free to reach out to me directly on discord and I will try to salvage your savefile!
Ability to delete gourdlets!!
Paintings change size when being moved
Be able to move rug even if there is furniture on top of it
Wall hangings flip on cam rotate
Visual glitch on backs of paintings / wall hangings
Deleting gourdlets has been requested since release, because if you invite too many guys over, the game starts to stutter. I wanted to spend a bunch of time testing this to make sure it doesn't corrupt existing savefiles, and I'm pretty happy with this solution!
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I wonder where they get sent when they're deleted? Thanks to everyone who has reported bugs or given me feedback, and please reach out in the discord if you run into problems! Thanks for being patient with the cadence of my updates, it takes a while as this game is being developed by just 1 person! I plan to keep updating this game through development and release of Gourdlets Together, the multiplayer game that I just announced! <3 -Preethi
2. Did a lot of coding changes that are not going to be visible to players, but makes it much easier for me to fix other bugs in future patches.
Thanks again to everyone who has taken the time to report bugs!
glitch if pressing (esc) during season change
moving a house erases the name
Building names keep resetting every time I close and open the game
Smoke from Chimney unaligned at certain angle
Note: if you want to report a bug, I try to read steam comments, but I am much more responsive in the gourdlets discord. I wish I could check steam comments regularly, but I am just 1 person and I am always trying to find the right balance between responsiveness and actually programming bugfixes!
Fixes for broken savefiles, gray screen, vanished gourdlets, and "Null" errors
Half of town disappeared (gourdlets are now swimming)
Interiors reset and population goes back down to 0
Missing Gourdlets, Gray screen when entering houses. Cannot Save/Exit Game.
LED desks
some tables have a dark blue line in every color variant
One style of desk had blue lines running through it, which was a mistake, but some users liked the idea of those cool RGB desks with LED's running through them:
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SO, I fixed the original tables (left) to remove the blue line, and added in a new LED desk item (right):
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Fixes for non-game breaking issues, visual bugs, and some QOL updates
Unable to move Windows with Clutter on Tables
fence icons are cut in half in the menu
missing wallpaper swatch
Extra floor spawned and won't disappear after rotating and deleting a wall item
duplicate cake
typo: "evergreen" is misspelled "evergeen"
Change "play" in the start menu to "new"
nametags are all the same when you pick up a gourdlet
some animations persist when they shouldn't
Plants not always changing with seasons
gourdlets clipping in indoor fences
some furniture disappears when rotating camera
<3
Preethi
This will now work going forward- it may or may not reload wall decor that was saved prior to this patch, but will will properly save and load going forward!
https://trello.com/c/lHM7m7jH/75-wall-decorations-disappear-after-reloading-the-save
What a crazy few weeks since launch! I’ve been very focused on squashing bugs and doing small updates to improve the experience - thank you to everyone for all your feedback and suggestions! They have been super helpful 💖
Now onto this new update! 🎃
Well, it is the season of gourds after all…
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With this new update, you can embrace the fall season with new items and accessories for your gourds! These items are a permanent addition so you can celebrate the spooky season all year round if you wish 😁
What’s new:
- 1 new building
- 5 new costumes (horns, halo, pumpkin, cheese head, ghost)
- 5 new indoor items (bed, dresser, fireplace, table, cauldron)
- 3 new outdoor items (scarecrow, jack-o-lantern, pumpkin)
- 3 new indoor floors
- Twitch integration: when you reload a savefile in twitch, chat members' gourdlets persist (bug tracker link)
- Fixes a bug where if you place a building, move it, then place another building on that spot, the new building gets the old interior. (bug tracker link - note this link contains a bunch of bug, only some of which are fixed by this change)
Thank you all for your support! As always you can join our Discord server here to share your autmnal islands with me 🍂 Hope you love the update and enjoy halloween as much as Cinny and Poppy do :)
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- Preethi Vaidyanathan
Current Release
18888137
Uploaded Feb 16, 2026
System Requirements
How to Install
windows.exe to play
Troubleshooting tips
• Run Redist/_CommonRedist installers if game won't start
• Add folder to Windows Defender exclusions
• Run as administrator
Download
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