About the Game
Build a medieval village within a completely interactively simulated world!
Townsmen VR leverages the exciting possibilities of virtual reality to enhance the classic city-building game further, offering entirely new gameplay experiences and interactive mechanics. The game combines elements of a God-game simulation and a classic building game with the interactive possibilities of VR controls. Whether viewed from a bird's-eye view or zoomed in close, you will always experience the action from the proper perspective.
Start with a small settlement and expand your might over a world of 13 different islands and archipelagos. Filled to the brim with exciting features, gizmos, and things to lay your virtual hands on. Build and upgrade more than 20 unique buildings. Immerse yourself in a thrilling story with many exciting quests, or play completely free in the sandbox mode with goals set by you. Hours of fun are guaranteed!
You are God!
As the population of your empire grows, so does the demand for food and goods. Production chains help you meet this need. When you build farms, you can grind the grain harvest there at the mill and bake delicious bread for your Townies from the flour. Your windmill won’t operate when the winds are calm? No worries, give those wings a push. Slap that lazy dude with a fish or help your citizens collect about 20 different raw materials. Do you want to see the world you helped create from the perspective of a townsman? Use your godly powers and scale yourself to experience your town at eye level with your townies.
A not-so-peaceful land
Farm animals, such as cows, sheep, and chickens, provide essential resources for food production. Your hunters will find rabbits and deer to stalk and hunt. You must be cautious of wild animals, such as wolves or bears, that you encounter. Seagulls are eager to steal your catch, while above the battlefields the crows caw, and high up in the sky, eagles fly free.
In time, you should begin to hire soldiers to defend your realm against intruders and enemy forces! Besides different types of soldiers, you can also make use of heavy artillery: A catapult can punch sensitive gaps in the enemy’s ranks! And should you run out of boulders, remember: everything you can lay your hands on can be used as ammo! However, the enemy kingdom is not the only problem your soldiers will face. Some islands are infested with sinister pirates who are after your precious resources!
Explore islands in new ways
Intuitive control of the environment allows you to move about – you can literally crawl over the island or adjust your viewpoint as you would position images on your smartphone. You’ll get accustomed to ruling your empire very fast.
Most of the islands you visit during the campaign can be unlocked for unrestricted play in the sandbox mode. You'll be able to choose whether you want to play completely without constraints, or give yourself a bit of excitement and accept the challenges you choose. Determine the number of townies you start the game with, defeat all opponents or fight against thieving pirates – the various settings offer you enough freedom for your personal gaming experience!
Story: A fully-voiced campaign and story arching over 13 islands.
Simulation: Assign jobs and tasks to your villagers to build your supply chains and economy.
Town-planning: Unlock more than 20 unique buildings and place them freely within your village to optimize transport routes. Apply upgrades to make them better!
Upgrades: Conduct research for further upgrades of your buildings.
Trading: Build a harbor to have a trader's ship and begin treasuring up riches.
Experience: Brush over trees, form clouds into dangerous thunderstorms, go fishing with your bare hands, and talk to your townies.
Interaction: Simply carry workers or resources directly to their destination to speed up the construction of buildings and production.
Fight: Recruit brave soldiers, build catapults, bows, and crossbows to protect your island from the Black Knight's raiding henchmen.
Tutorial: Your personal advisor, Sir Clunk-a-lot, will accompany you on your virtual tour of the medieval age with useful tips.
Sandbox Mode: Get creative and try out the game conditions you set in free play. Decide for yourself which tasks you want to complete and enjoy full freedom!
Sound: Medieval music, adorable sound effects, and a classy English voiceover ensure a fitting atmosphere.
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Version Information
Steam Patch Notes
Official update history
- Fixed player position not always saving and loading correctly in Sandbox mode.
- Fixed enemy attacks in Sandbox mode not always working correctly.
Changes
- Fixed invisible Russian font.
- Fixed an issue where the "fat chicken" wasn't ever spawned from the henhouse.
we pushed a small update to help with a specific issue some players reported.
The game usually pauses when you take off the headset, displaying a "headset not mounted" message. But if for some reason that detection doesn't work correctly, the game can appear as always paused, preventing you from playing the game.
If you are experiencing this issue, you can now start the game with the launch option "-nopause" to deactivate the headset detection.
To add this launch option, right-click Townsmen VR in your library and click on "Properties...".
Under GENERAL add "-nopause" (without quotation marks) in the field labelled LAUNCH OPTIONS.
Hope that helps and thank you for playing! :)
Happy holidays!
General Changes:
- Added more text translations. The game now supports: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese
- The language can now be chosen in the Steam properties for the game.
- The game now pauses when you don't wear the VR headset.
- Completely reworked the save/load menu layout to closer resemble the level selection.
- Player position is now saved.
- Townies, monks, and nuns now complain if you poke them with a burning torch.
- Removed previous missions from mission popup.
- Reduced work target priority to eat/drink from cauldron, so it should be the same as other food sources.
- Removed some tradable resources (swords, cake, armor) from Moon Island, so you have to produce them instead of just buy them.
- Updated combat behavior to change target if the current target is occluded (and the new one is almost same on priority).
- Townies don't complain constantly anymore if at low health.
- All buildings and construction sites have been updated to reduce situations where buildings fully block paths or their own workplaces/storages.
- Thieves can now spawn on Fort Haven.
- The level end popup now stays open 10 seconds longer.
- Achievements you earned before the achievement system was introduced will now be granted at the start of the game.
Visual Changes:
- Reworked almost all particle effects (some are even island specific to fit the color setting).
- Implemented beards for soldiers.
- Added shadow quality level 4.
- Added an animated crow to the start scene.
- The highlight effect when you tear down a building is now green instead of red.
- Updated the layout for the stars describing the level of a building and fixed them not being shown in the research menu.
- Fixed the tavern campfire texture looking like the fire was extinguished after the building has been highlighted once.
- Enemy buildings don't bounce anymore if being attacked.
- Smooth spectator camera isn't smooth underwater anymore to fix missing underwater visual effect.
- Polished material for ghost hands.
- Fixed floating ropes on ship construction.
- Fixed a broken merchant animation on Solitary Island.
- Eagle now has an animation for takeoff.
- All ship sails should now react to player blowing into the microphone (just visually, no gameplay effect).
Audio Changes:
- Added an alarm sound when one of your units or buildings gets attacked.
- Added lowpass filter on all sound effects while underwater.
- Added sounds for assigning units to rally flags, unit spawn, unit death, slaughterhouse, catapult (loading, shooting, impact).
- Fixed flickering ambience sounds on Volcano Island and Solitary Island.
General fixes:
- Fixed game not loading when system language is Turkish.
- Fixed most save/load issues with ships and trading.
- Fixed an issue where you could build more than one ship per harbor.
- Fixed farmers trying to milk/shear cows/sheep when they were on the way to a slaughterhouse.
- Fixed an issue that prevented birds from looking for an action to do (land, steal...).
- Fixed townies not resetting properly the work target system references when managing needs.
- Updated ragdoll logic to make them stand up if too long in that state.
- Fixed stack of books being one more than needed if save/load while monk/nun dropped an old book into the library.
- Fixed an issue with hitting some buildings with lightning.
- Fixed an interaction that would prevent a townie carrying a resource from changing the job when dragged onto a workplace.
- Updated henhouse to prioritize chicken production on manual townie assignment.
- Fixed tear down behavior of harbor construction site.
- Fixed townies getting put on top of ranged barracks if assigned to work there.
- Fixed subtitles always disappearing after 5 seconds (noticeable on longer sentences).
- Fixed some strange behavior when slapping a character on their last sentence.
- Fixed the bridge on Smuggler's Cove not being properly connected to the land, blocking pathfinding.
- Updated Newport quest system to avoid unintended disappearing of pirates on save/load.
Known major issues:
- Goods stored in harbors are not loaded correctly from save files and might even disappear completely if you save/load a second time.
- Goods that are currently on a crane while saving are not saved at all.
- If you save and load after finishing the mission to "feed the people and grow the town." on Smuggler's Cove, you won't be able to complete the level anymore without restarting the level.
- Some UI layouts are a bit off and have to be fixed (should still be readable in the current state though).
- If you load an old save file from the previous version where a merchant ship is at your harbor, the ship won't go away anymore.
- Characters in the last dialog on Fort Haven try to position themselves behind you instead of in front of you.
- Sometimes ship paths break and they sail through islands.
We introduced achievement functionality, so you can now start to collect them while you are out there exploring the islands of TownsmenVR. Currently they do not work retroactively so if you passed some achievements already, they will not trigger yet.
With the introduction of our new patch that we are currently working on, you should get those too.
Thank you for your patience and have fun playing TownsmenVR!
- Added option to talk to your townsmen (they react to greetings like "Hi!" or "Hello!" and get offended if you insult them.
- Added option to deactivate voice input in general.
- People can now stand on soldier buildings with a flat roof (archer barracks, crossbowmen barracks and knight castle).
General fixes:
- Removed broken translations for Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Portuguese, Russian, Thai, Turkish, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese.
- Fixed controller bindings for Mixed Reality and Oculus controllers to detect index finger movement.
- Enabled finger movement in loading scenes.
- Fixed problem grabbing resources from the "trading" storages from harbors.
- Fixed spawn animations playing when they shouldn't.
- Fixed more jobs and resources being shown in the island info than actually available on this island.
- Deactivated global illumination in loading and splash scenes.
- Fixed unlock effects (buildings, research etc.) being shown after loading if they already have been shown before.
- Fixed showing overlapping construction steps after loading.
- Deleted a stone on the ground of enemy gate destruction steps that would float in some maps.
- Fixed missing reference of trading point from both TradingController and TradingSlot on load.
- Fixed an issue where a ship could be sent back to the spawn position after save/load.
- Brew resource collider is now a cube, so it doesn't roll when dropped.
- Fixed chests hidden on islands already showing their info button before they have been found.
- Blocked some places where buildings could be constructed although there was not enough space vertically (overhanging cliffs).
Level specific fixes:
- Made some decoration removable on Fog Island, Treasure Island, Capital Island, Solitary Island, New Port.
- Fixed Fog Island quest system: unlock of residence moved to later point in quest line to prevent skipping ahead when playing very fast.
- Deactivated normal fish spawning in Capital Island ocean.
- Fixed fish on Twin Island swimming through a small island in the lake.
- Adjusted Twin Island ship route to avoid possible collisions with other routes.
- Fixed Solitary Island cut off voice line of Enswick.
- Fixed Prison Island game over message not triggering when catapult is destroyed.
- Fixed New Port mine being counted as under water.
- Fixed quest on New Port finishing before the required trade ship is built.
- Fixed some enemy towers on Volcano Island not allowing people to stand on top of them.
- Removed back-face culling of volcano shader (should now also be visible from within the island).
Known major issues:
- Trading and ships still can have some issues not being loaded correctly after saving. We are still working on a fix.
- The game won't load if your system language is Turkish. This will be fixed in the next update.
- Fixed story characters freezing in mid air when you solve a mission while they are currently fading in.
- Fixed the well not refilling water if loaded from a save file where it was empty.
- Fixed an issue with the gold smelter and market place that could cause a "pick up/drop gold bar" infinite loop.
- Fixed tombstones rolling around when dropped.
- Fixed controller detection to show correct hints and control options.
- Fixed population display in building info not always showing all digits.
- Moved up building info UI to not clip into buildings.
- Eagle can't land on your hands anymore if you deactivate hand collisions.
- Added reaction voice lines for complaining and cheering.
- Polished water related assets (splash particles on coasts, underwater skyboxes).
Some people reported random crashes while playing the game. We weren’t able to reproduce these crashes on our testing machines, but thanks to your bug reports we could see that they were all connected to Unity’s multithreaded rendering.
Since then we have uploaded a beta branch with a build that doesn’t support multithreaded rendering. This version didn’t crash for anyone but of course the performance is worse.
In version 0.14 we now have officially updated to a newer version of Unity that should contain a fix for the multithreaded rendering issue. Please let us know if this fixes the crashes for you.
Other fixes in this version:
• Fixed a broken game state that appeared if you tried to hit Baron Melvin with lightning strikes.
• Fixed projectiles not working correctly anymore after you chose the “RESTART” option from the menu.
• Fixed an issue that appeared if you restarted the game while an enemy ship was at the island.
We are currently also working on the save system and random attacks, so we hope that we can have another update ready soon.
For feedback please visit the Steam forums!
• Added command line parameter –noaudioinput that allows you to deactivate microphone and voice recognition completely
• Fixed exception in SteamApi initialization
• Added graphics option to activate soft particles (default is now off)
• You can now feed the cat dead fish (although cats still won’t search for fish on their own)
• Fixed an issue where you got stuck in the tutorial if you burned down the woodcutter’s hut before being told how to construct new buildings
If you experience or have experienced crashes before:
• Don’t activate soft particles
• If it still crashes, switch to the beta channel
To subscribe to the beta channel, right click on the game in your steam library, select Properties->BETAS and choose the beta branch from the dropdown menu. This version needs more GPU power, but should be more stable.
As always please keep us updated in the forums of how the versions are working for you!
Thank you!
• Fixed some crashes
• Fixed an issue where building previews disappeared from the build menu (if you grabbed them while they were invisible)
• Fixed overlapping dialogs between Sir Clunkalot and Baron Melvin if you quickly hit the baron several times
• Fixed collider on landing stage
• Reduced the townsmen’s reaction to player speech
• Fixed Sir Clunkalot speeding up the windmill wings when talking
Please keep us updated in the forums if this patch fixes your problems or you stumble over new ones!
Thank you!
Update: Actually the patch didn't fix the crashes as we have hoped it would. We uploaded a badly optimized debug build in the beta channel that seems to fix the crashes. So everybody experiencing crashes please try that beta build as we are working to optimize it to bring it to the public.
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