Go-Go Town! news & patch notes

BUGFIX

• Classy Glasses now have their own icon
• Added missing townie to sandbox spawn pool.
• Fixed issue where player could get stuck dancing at the Arcade forever if they were hit with a vehicle the second they started
• Updated the footprint of the train station to stop placement of objects in front of the exit and entry points.
• Updated Bonita Townie hint dialogue to inlcude the button prompt for how to open the emote wheel.
• Fix being able to hit players when they are vehicle passengers
• Added some safety checks to handle some rare GPU crashes
• Updated the name of the town goal for Build Tourist Desires to be more descriptive.
• Fix error when local coop player leaves the game after looking at the Town Rankings App.
• Fixed an issue where workers would pick up items, and drop them on the floor instead of putting them into a maker to produce backfill items
• Tourists will no longer drop held items if they see Garbage on the floor. Only when they are knocked over (for example: hit by vehicle, evictor, leaf blower etc)
• Fixed issue where the player could terraform under the train station tunnel section.

DESIGN

• Bonita is now super keen for high-fives
• Importing vehicles now has a cap of 4 purchases before restock timeout

BUGFIX

• Fixed an issue in the introduction that stopped the first train from coming.
• Explicitly pre-clear rendertarget resources for cumulative draw passes, helps minority hardware that doesn't do this automatically
• Fixed player being unable to harvest player-specific loot from fishing spots
• fix rare crash on exit to title
• Removed building requirements from certain vehicles appearing in the imports app. Now, as long as the vehicle has been discovered it will appear in the Imports App for purchase.
• Fixed some typos in the tutorial
• Fixed an issue where the player can get stuck in the start of the game by changing the recipe on the first small shop.
• Fixed clamping out of bounds issue for reflection environment
• Fixed grammar mistake in Ian Humam's join hint dialogue.
• Updated Nutmeg's dialogue to refer to the correct name of the Coin 'O Matic.
• Updated town goal todo to not refer to Vending Machines as the player doesn't have access to them at that time.
• Reduced import quantities for Strawberries and Pumpkins from 40 to 1
• Fixed bug where players could get stuck in infinite dialogue loops
• Fixed visual variations not being correctly applied to constructed houses
• Added a forced train spawn for anyone stuck in the opening tutorial
• Fixed an issue where the player could craft items at the Book Nook.
• Fixed grammar mistake in Snappy's join town dialogue.
• When checking to see how much garbage is on the floor to summon Garbirds, ignore garbage that is not on the town level
• Fixed an issue where tourists will only window shop at the candy shop and not buy after browsing.
• Fix red light visual bug on Intel Integrated Graphics hardware
• Fix for Network Clients not having correct lists of Treasures when interacting with Treasure Displays.

DESIGN

• Reduced max simultaneous ambient Garbirds from 4 to 2
• Increased hours between ambient Garbird spawns from 5 to 12
• Reduced frequency of Garbird Spawns during Garbird Weather Event (now 50% chance every 30 in-game minutes)
• Reduced maximum number of Garbird Spawns during Garbird Weather Event from 6 to 4.
• Reduced weighting of Garbird Weather Event

UI

• Hide Left/Right Prompts in Crafting Minigame if there are no other recipes to switch to

BUGFIX

• Fixed achievements not unlocking for multiplayer clients
• Fix rare crash/corruption of saves

It’s finally time—Go-Go Town! 1.0 is now available!

This has been such an exciting journey for us, and whether you’ve played since the start of Early Access, or are just diving in town, we as a team (and TownCo.) are so glad you’re joining us on this journey! 

Let’s dive in! We’ve got a brand new beautiful launch trailer for you:

About Go-Go Town! 

In Go-Go Town!, you’re dumped unceremoniously into a run-down town and given the job of Mayor. Congrats! Now you’re in charge of making all the decisions, with the goal of making a ton of money turning it into a thriving tourist destination.  What, you thought it would be easy? Well that’s where your friendly neighborhood corporation TownCo. comes into play! Well, we mean it’ll be easy for us, because you’re doing all the work!  As mayor, you’ll be in charge of: clearing land, building shops, stocking those shops, cleaning garbage, setting up industry zones, planting crops, fishing, exploring secret zones, finding new vehicles to ride in, building your own house, creating a transit system of subways, fighting off garbirds, convincing clowns that live in the sewers to move in…  …you know, the usual Mayoral duties.  Oh, you wanted to make TownCo. proud and Delegate™️like the best of them? Good. All those tourists visiting your city? Those are just potential workers waiting to be put to work. Convince them to move in, build them homes, and tell them what to do. They’ll run shops, farm, collect resources, act as couriers, help clean your town, and more! 

And of course, there’s more: 

• Local and Online Co-op for up to four players. Build together, throw garbage at each other, or race in Go-Karts, the choice is yours. Want to micromanage a bit? Play solo instead.

• From hiring workers to setting up couriers to deliver to shops, Go-Go Town! is all about making your life easier as Mayor through automation. Workers will collect resources, deliver them, maintenance crews will clean up your town, and more. 

• Rising up the TownCo. ranks is no easy feat. You’ll have a complete Tech Tree to pick and choose which upgrades, shops, and décor you want to unlock, and TownCo has created challenges each step of the way that test your mayoral prowess. Think you’re up for it? 

• Make tourists happy! With nine different tourist personality types and seven… otherworldly ones (did someone say Aliens? Werewolves?) as well, you’ll have to stock restaurants and shops with a range of items based on what they’re looking for and they’ll rate you highly. Don’t let them leave disappointed!

• Explore the map, expand into new areas, unlock fast travel, and find hidden zones that are full of items, vehicles and more to bring back to your town. You might even find fish, artifacts, fossils, and more to collect and show off!

• Make your way around town with a variety of vehicles, from pillbugs to flying broomsticks, or even a bicycle built for four. Store the extras in a parking garage, or import some for friends.

• Not happy with your layout? Build cliffs, tear them down, add water and different terrain types to fully customize the map layout. Use the paint tool to customize buildings, items and everything to match—or clash in just the right way.

• Don’t forget the inside—you’ll have your very own house that you can decorate and expand the inside of with furniture, appliances, lighting, and one (1) chalk outline of a body. Those items can also go outdoors, so cover your town in rugs.

New Major Features

We’ve added a bunch of new things, fully revamped others, and have polished everything to a beautiful shine! Here’s a few things that you’ll find: Our brand-new Creative Mode lets you fully take the reins and build with no limits, no money needed and a new map on which to make that happen.

Bugs, artifacts, fish, gems, relics, and fossils—it's time to start collecting! We've got a new Treasure Hunting system where you can collect (and display!) things you find while exploring your town and environs. Will you set up a fishtank or a beautiful plinth first?

A distant cousin of the noble Bin Chicken, Garbirds will root around in your trash, scare tourists, and won't leave until you get rid of them. Just another thing to keep on top of!

Streaming on Twitch? We’ve got great new Twitch commands that your audience can use! 

Of course, we couldn’t add new features and not have new Steam achievements! There are now 30 new Steam Achievements that you can earn, and a total of 56! Here's a few of our favorites... which ones are you most excited to earn?

QOL Improvements

Of course, there’s always little updates that we can do to make your gameplay a little nicer. Here are a few of those: 

• Rebuy System 🧮 We've made it easier to buy more décor items that you've unlocked, and all it takes is some EGO. Fill the city with trees! Add barriers everywhere! Make a lane of statues! 

• Imports 📥 What does TownCo need more than anything? Cash! And we're happy to import vehicles or, well, any item you may want... for a price. Need an extra tomato? Pill bug? Just order them up!

• Offroad Driving 🛻 Where we're going, we don't need roads... All player vehicles are officially "off road" vehicles! Take your truck into the forest, we don't care.

• Lost and Found 🧹 Made a mess in your town? Lost and Found to the rescue! Your Maintenance Crew will now pick up items dropped on the ground and take them to Lost & Found. But after 12 in-game hours, they'll get rid of them, so keep an eye on it!

• Updated Tutorial 📑 Just in time for new players! We’ve revamped our tutorial so it walks you through all the major steps you need to be successful in Go-Go Town!. Got everything handled and starting a new save? Skip it! Need a refresher? It’s waiting for you in the main menu. 

• Vehicle Garage 🚙 Got too many vehicles? Don't we all! Store them in the new vehicle garage. And if you have too many Go-Karts, there's someone inside who will happily take them off your hands and make them disappear. 

What’s next? 

The Go-Go Good Times don’t stop now! Here’s a look at our post-launch roadmap!

Thank you!

Again, if you’ve been with us since playtests, or just picked up a copy today, we’re so glad to have you and hope you enjoy everything Go-Go Town! has to offer

cheers,

the Prideful Sloth team

GAMEPLAY FEATURES

• Allow browsing of lower resolutions in options menu
• Player now customises their character before they enter the game
• New Tech Tree with ability to rebuy extra items
• Town Rankings now offer rewards at each tier
• Removed time requirement for Town Ranking Challenges.
• Added Treasure Hunting
• Added 'Collections' Phone App
• Improved radiosity lighting
• Added 'Creative' Mode
• Added 'Town Settings' App (available in Creative Mode)
• Maintenance workers will now collect items that are left on the ground outside zones and take them to 'Lost and Found' storage at the Maintenance Office
• Improved physics stability
• Reworked End Game Story, you can finally find out what is behind that door.
• Added Garbird Pests to the game
• Added New Standalone Tutorial
• Added Sprinklers
• Added Parking Garages
• Added New Achievements
• Added new Trinket Shop Fitout.
• Changed fallback quantitites for loot crates to use coins instead of export tickets as export tickets have been removed from the game.
• Safe now has some dialogue if you interact with it before getting the code.
• Adjusted Controller Vibration algorithm, should feel less like it is full of bees
• Added ability for the player to rename Fitouts
• Build mode camera will now cut back to player when returning.
• Build mode camera will now inherit zoom and pan from previous camera
• Added 'Locate Emergency' Emote to help locate Garbirds
• Updated time widget to have an icon showing today's weather forecast.
• Mascots now idle wander near desire props.
• Removed 'hard edge' from map borders
• Added new animations (Mascot Dance, Fitness Tourist idle, Posh Tourist idle)
• Full localization pass
• Many optimisations, improvements and bug fixes!

AUDIO

• Added music to the title screen, customisation sequence, and a set music track the first time you load the game
• Boom gate open and close audio
• Fire ASMR audio for Brazier, Campfire, Pizza Oven, Fire Barrel
• Player emotes now have abstract sounds
• Add Storage Lock/Unlock sound effects
• "Chill 01" removed from Streamer-Safe music collection

BUGFIX

• Fixed player not bringing out phone when in build mode.
• Resolved issue where a player could pick and clone a prop, and then the colour information would persist for unrelated props selected
• Fixed issue where the Storage Skip couldn't be placed in the Deep Forest and Mine levels.
• Fixed issue where workers who were holding drills at the time of save, would no longer work when loading the game.
• Fixed issue that was causing tourists to drop garbage on the floor if they were interrupted while walking to a place to sit down.
• Smoothed out train movement
• Removed tile restrictions on horn scare.
• Fix crash if player is moving a widget and they get a boss phonecall.
• Fixed issue where player could not build terrain at 0,0
• Fixed widgets not being correctly created on new game.
• Fixed bug where tourists would no longer consume items that were left in the output storage after a fitout changed recipe.
• Fixed camera from performing weird movement when starting a game.
• Improved player movement on lower frame rates.
• Adjusted sorting for UI HUD Elements.
• Added Vombat vehicle to imports.
• Added a rumble when a fish is hooked.
• Fixed issue where player was unable to hop off vehicles when on certain terrain types.
• Added appear/disappear effects to various objects.
• Maintenance damaged states are not appearing for client player.
• Fixed maint workers not idling correctly.
• Fixed Visuals pop-in if you save and then reload without moving.
• Moving a broken prop does not also move the attached storage.
• Resolved issue where actors would look for actions while being hit by a vehicle, resulting in some strange behaviour
• Fixed issue where client co-op players could not get on a vehicle immediately after joining a game
• Resolved issue where items desires may be set to 0 causing industries to grind to a halt.
• Fixed issue where player was unable to highlight cells around the edge of the map in build mode.
• Fixed some camera stuttering when moving the camera near the bounds of the build area.
• Updated Townie Goobers dialogue so he doesn't tell lies about Mana Extractors
• Stopped Storage Skip from displaying two icons in Storage Menu
• Opening storage menu with Dpad Down no longer moves the cursor down one entry in the Storage Menu upon opening
• Updated interior collision on the Maintenance building to fix potential NPC pathfinding issues.
• Stopped Beetroots appearing in the colour picker
• Fixed issue where buildings with construction sites were not correctly applying cloned colours
• Fixed controller navigation skipping over the 'invite code' button in the Multiplayer App
• Fix visual pop when customizing player appearance
• Fix players can be hit with vehicles while they are sitting on a chair
• Stop the player 'hopping' when they replant, or plant last crop
• Fix zone border visuals not appearing when creating a new zone
• Online Co-op/Networking has been updated to be be more robust and use less data
• Stopped player from being able to trigger emote wheel in when the customisation or phone menus are active
• Fixed overly shiny indirect reflections of local environment on non-metal surfaces
• Fixed issue where Tourists would appear in the incorrect position when high-fiving as a network client
• Stopped the camera from panning to freshly created zones in build mode
• Fix actors from floating over a cliff at map extents by adding a virtual collider around the map
• Fixed issue where workers would spam pathing errors
• Fixed camera sometimes snapping to the wrong angle when talking to NPCs
• Ensure footprint colour updates if wallet changes without having to move the cursor
• Fix Hooptie vehicle moving position after loading save
• Fixed a bug where harvested items did not spawn at the source object correctly
• Fixed issue where Mascots would not get changed into their suits at night
• Ambient shading no longer shows faint banding artifacts on surfaces at certain camera distances
• Fixed a few minor postprocessing related memory leaks that occur when exiting gameplay
• fix for blur/bloom propogating blocky visual artifacts on some systems
• Tent: support custom coloring
• Conservatory: support custom coloring
• Fix odd flicker on certain zone borders
• Fixed Bags/Balloons etc not appearing for network clients
• Fixed tools teleporting out of personal storage on load and becoming non-interactable
• Fixed issues with the player not being able to sit at various outdoor settings.
• Fix Wobbly Friend becoming tired and failing to wobble after long 8+ hour play sessions.
• Fix vehicle engine jiggles stopping after long 8+ hour play sessions.
• Fixed seating exit positions for a variety of chairs
• Fixed an issue where the in-game clock and timers could slowly lose accuracy in very long-running towns
• Fixed issue where splitscreen players could see alerts from other levels
• Fix for items in backpacks not moving correctly when an actor sits down etc
• Resolved several animated shader effects that could slowly stutter, jitter, or freeze after long play sessions
• Fixed issues if network player was disconnected as they were joining
• Fix maintenance workers getting stuck collecting garbage inside buildings
• Fix vehicle becoming non interactable for co-op clients if you store/withdraw multiple vehicles
• Fixed an issue with the interior collision of the Diner fitout which restricted the player from moving past the tables.
• Fixed an issue with Freshenators interaction point being offset to the visual.
• Fix brazier/campfire/hotrock fire particles producing INF/NaN's on some hardware
• Fix ghosted pending construction resources sometimes sticking around for multiplayer clients
• Fix garbage not correctly entering the Garbage Disposal for multiplayer clients
• Fix for stored items sometimes floating in strange positions
• Fixed multiplayer players hearing Rock/Paper/Scissors musical beat while in other levels or far away
• Fixed the Rock/Paper/Scissors music not playing correctly for multiplayer players who join a game while a match is already in progress
• Fix rare crash that can occur when swapping town profiles multiple times, followed by loading and saving town
• In multiplayer, fix items sometimes falling to the players feet when transitioning into the makers
• Workers will now no longer forage more than they need from forage locations
• Fix rare exception in terrain visibility
• NPCs will now participate in Rock Paper Scissors if no other players are available.

DESIGN

• Baldo townie dialogue and join request has been updated.
• The build menu items and categories have been reordered to make it easier to navigate.
• Ticket pod has been renamed to the Coin O' Matic Pod and now generates coins instead of export tickets.
• Removed 'Export' Feature from the game
• Updated fitouts to have exposed tourist desire values in EGO Tech.
• All customization items now have a name.
• All player vehicles can now be driven off road.
• Added small truck to Imports.
• Updated TownCo. Townie Agent dialogue and quest now that exports has been removed. Townie now asks for treasure collection.
• Updated join requirements for some of the early townies to be easier.
• Removed 'Managed Output' from Manage Module, was never working as intended
• Updated Metal Ingot craft time to be the same as other industry resource craft times.
• Updated Mana Extractors to not need Mana Nodes anymore. Mana Nodes have been removed from the game now.
• Removed farm plots from trader inventory now that we have them in the rebuy tab of EGO tech.
• Fixed spelling mistake on the Biz Mascot Body clothing option.
• Reduced starting fishing zone size to fix issues with early fishing workers taking too long to fish.
• Updated size of some dockables.
• Updated Chum hint text to be more clear about the player having to catch fish and not using workers for their join requirement.
• Added Floor Tentacle and Conspiracy Board to game.
• Removed side collision on wood bridge.
• Removed road tile requirements for car park.
• Updated tourism building to have 4 job slots instead of 1.
• Updated star values on some items in shops.
• Slightly reduced the time it takes to catch lobsters and crabs from pots. Was 2.5 game hours, now is 2 game hours.
• Reduced min/max fishing time from 4 to 8 seconds to 3 to 6 seconds.
• Updated townie strings that were referencing import tickets that don't exist anymore.
• Slightly reduced Agent Toffee's join coin request
• Updated the icon and guide entry to match the updated Maintenance building visuals.
• Slightly increased tourist wallet sizes. They now have a little bit more money to spend while in town.
• Players can now interact with the Wiggly Friend.
• Updated the sort order of props in the transport section of the build menu.
• Look at camera instead of rotating during boss calls.
• Crafting Minigame now uses a single prompt, has a more generous pre and post angle hitbox, and also no longer loses speed when the current recipe runs out.
• Reworked 'Storage' Menu to add a scroll bar if contents go off screen
• Removed 'Recipe' Panels from Storage Menu
• Camera Positioning in Storage Menu now uses current camera rotation
• Improve mini map performance
• Antialiasing performance improvements, differentiates Medium and High quality settings with a better balance of cost to quality
• Allow lights that would otherwise only be on at night-time to also be on when in interior locations
• Improved save file size

UI

• Renamed 'Friends' app to 'Multiplayer'
• Added item storage info on manage menu
• Added 'Produces' info to tooltip in build mode
• Adjusted customisation menu to be horizontal, instead of vertical
• Changed 'inventory' prompt to say 'storage'
• Brand new Town Ranking UI
• Added tabbing in customisation menu
• Added back prompts for join game, options, and overlay panels
• Added DPAD Movement prompt for phone
• Smoothed out transition when exiting game
• Disable chatting if there is only one player.
• Better icons for player names / numbers
• Removed hitching when transitioning from landscape -> portrait mode in the phone
• Added prompts to town info app.
• Added garbirds to map filters
• Fixed selection outline on Items in the build menu
• Added a confirm prompt to customisation.
• Challenge Todo Lists will now hide items as they are completed
• Todo lists will now only show up on the primary player's screen when playing in split screen
• Adjusted EGO Value in Phone App to have White text instead of blue.
• Added an on-screen keyboard for jailbreak for controller only platforms.
• Made the credits page a bit more pretty

Hello Mayors!

Wanted to do a little dive into a new mechanic that we're introducing with 1.0: Treasure Hunting! You'll be able to find bugs, gems, fossils, artifacts, and more all around your town (and hidden in the outer zones as well), and display them around your town.

Here's how it'll work: as you're walking around town, you may see a new kind of fishing spot, an artifact trove, a treasure node, or bugs wandering around, and you'll be able to interact with it (provided you've brought the right tool!)

Then you'll have a beautiful animation where you triumphantly show off your find...

From there, head to the Town Hall. This is a new building that will come with 1.0, and it's also where you'll come to get rewards from challenges. But inside, there's a new troll named Arizona Smythe III and a few displays. You can display your finds in aquariums, bug stands, plinths, and if you want more, head to the vending machine in the back: you'll be able to purchase more with EGO. And what about Arizona? They're there to take extras off your hand—so if you've found one too many Forest Woodies, you can sell them to them and they'll... handle it. Don't ask questions! This interior can be decorated with all the tools and décor that you have for your home, and expanded to boot, so go nuts. And of course—these displays can be placed outdoors as well!

Your phone will track what you've found, as well as the number of things you have left to find. As to where to find them? We'll just have to wait for intrepid players like you to add them to our Wiki when the time is right!

And of course... make sure you look in the external zones as well. Critters and things to dig up are hiding across all the maps, so make good use of that Fast Travel!

Make sure to check out all the zones to find all the critters and treasure you can

This is one of the things we're so excited about with 1.0, and hope you all are as well!

cheers,

Emily & the Prideful Sloth team

Hi all! It's been a while since I last posted - Emily has been doing an amazing job keeping everyone updated for us. With V 1.0 just around the corner, and with questions we have been getting regarding save progress, I wanted to drop in and personally update you on what is happening on this front.

The Short:

EA saves will not be compatible with V 1.0, however, your EA progress will not be lost and you can continue to play/visit your existing towns (see below).

How to Keep Playing Your EA Saves:

We have created a dedicated Game Version called ggt_legacy. You will be able to jump into this version anytime you want, and continue to play your existing game. We have a Discussion topic here that will walk you through how to do this.

The Long:

We really wanted to address as much Early Access feedback as possible for our V 1.0 release. This meant that we reworked some pretty fundamental systems in the game. We worked to preserve saves and bring them forward, however, we found that the time spent doing this meant that V 1.0 would not be as good of a game. After much thought, we agreed that what we wanted from V 1.0 was to give you more features, more ways to play, and more content, and to address as much of your feedback as we could. We do promise that this is a once off. V 1.0 saves are sacred, they are not going anywhere. This is not the ideal outcome that we wanted. However, V1.0 has *so* much packed into it, and you will enjoy it. Over the next few weeks Emily will be highlighting all of the new content coming into V 1.0 Just to highlight a few of the features Emily will be covering:

• Creative Mode

• Treasure Hunting

• Revamped Tech Tree including Rebuy

• Updated Progression and Challenges

• Vehicle Garage and Offroad Driving

• Rework of EGO, and town Economy

• New shops, recipes, and content

• Revamped tutorial

• Town Hall and Collection Displays

Cheers,

Cheryl

Go-Go Town! is coming to 1.0 on JULY 16th!

Check out our brand-new trailer here: 

In Go-Go Town!, you’re dumped unceremoniously into a run-down town and given the job of Mayor. Congrats! Now you’re in charge of making all the decisions, with the goal of making a ton of money turning it into a thriving tourist destination.  You’ll plan neighborhoods, build shops and homes, manage production chains, hire workers, complete quests, welcome visitors—look, the list is long, but if you have that TownCo. “special something” that others call “delegating,” then you’re in the right place. Simply recruit tourists to live and work (mostly work) in your town while you, well,  take credit for that hard work.  Once your town is fully automated, you’re free to neglect your town spend your time doing more important Mayor duties™, like painting the town to the exact colors you want, reshaping the terrain, Go-Karting with friends, or even high-five a cow or two.  It sounds so peaceful… until disaster strikes and you’ll have to spring into action! They don’t call it Go-Go Town! for nothing!

1.0 will be full of great features, including: 

• Local and Online Co-op for up to four players on Steam. Build together, throw garbage at each other, or race in Go-Karts, the choice is yours. Want to micromanage a bit? Play solo instead.

• From hiring workers to setting up couriers to deliver to shops, Go-Go Town! is all about making your life easier as Mayor through automation. Workers will collect resources, deliver them, maintenance crews will clean up your town, and more. 

• Make tourists happy! With nine different tourist personality types and seven… otherworldly ones (did someone say Aliens? Werewolves?) as well, you’ll have to stock restaurants and shops with a range of items based on what they’re looking for and they’ll rate you highly. Don’t let them leave disappointed!

• Rising up the TownCo. ranks is no easy feat. You’ll have a complete Tech Tree to pick and choose which upgrades, shops, and décor you want to unlock, and TownCo has created challenges each step of the way that test your mayoral prowess. Think you’re up for it? 

• Make your way around town with a variety of vehicles, from pillbugs to flying broomsticks, or even a bicycle built for four. Store the extras in a parking garage, or import some for friends.

• Explore the map, expand into new areas, unlock fast travel, and find hidden zones that are full of items, vehicles and more to bring back to your town. You might even find fish, artifacts, fossils, and more to collect and show off!

• Not happy with your layout? Build cliffs, tear them down, add water and different terrain types to fully customize the map layout. Use the paint tool to customize buildings, items and everything to match—or clash in just the right way.

• Don’t forget the inside—you’ll have your very own house that you can decorate and expand the inside of with furniture, appliances, lighting, and one (1) chalk outline of a body. Those items can also go outdoors, so cover your town in rugs.

• Our brand-new Creative Mode lets you fully take the reins and build with no limits, no money needed. We’ll have new maps for you to test the limits of your creativity as well.

It’s going to be an exciting time as we head now into launch! If you’re a creator / streamer or press, and you’re interested in a key, feel free to fill out our Creator Interest Form here. Want to join our community? Head to our Discord, it’s a great spot to chat with fellow players, show off your town, share streams, and more.  cheers,

Emily and the Prideful Sloth team p.s. you may have noticed that our key art and logo got a bit of a new look! We figured this was the perfect time to debut them, and hope you like it! 

Hello Mayors! We're so excited to share that we'll be taking part in Wholesome Direct next month! We love the Wholesome events, because they do a great job of showcasing great games, and so we know we're in great company.

Set your calendars for June 6th at 9am (US-Pacific) / June 7th at 2am (Brisbane), and we can't wait for you to see what we've got in store!

As we're progressing towards our 1.0 release, part of preparing for that next phase means that we'll be increasing the price at the end of the month. The game when it released in EA two years ago is much different from the one it is now, and we've had 6 Major Updates, 7 Minor Updates and there's even more to come with 1.0, so we feel that the new price will be commensurate with the added value you're getting. More details to come, but wanted to let you all know ahead of time. Stay tuned here and on social media as we'll be sharing a lot more updates on what's to come with 1.0!

Cheers,

Emily and the Prideful Sloth team

Hello Mayors!  We’re still hard at work as we head towards our 1.0 release, but wanted to talk about a big feature that we’re pretty excited about: a new Tech Tree! As a head’s up, this isn’t live in the game yet, you’ll have to wait for 1.0, but we wanted to give you a sneak peek. This is something we’ve wanted to get to for some time, the idea of streamlining the Tech Tree so it was more modular and gives you as the player more agency—you can pick and choose how you move through levels. So here, you can see the tiers are broken down into much smaller chunks (and we’ve adjusted the EGO cost for them as well). We’ve also moved a few things out and made them Challenge Rewards (more on that to come)

A few players talked about how frustrating it was to have limits on what you could buy at early (and well, late) levels, and so we’ve fully adjusted that too. There’s now a “Rebuy” tab where you can purchase additional copies of props you’ve already unlocked. You’ll use EGO for this, and we’ve adjusted it so tourists generate EGO as they move around your Town. If you’re anything like me, the Barriers section will be your most-used one:

Calling all content creators & streamers

As we head towards 1.0, we’re on the lookout for people who want to stream Go-Go Town! If this sounds like you, we have a handy-dandy form for you to fill out here. If you don’t stream, please spread the word to streamers you like! We very much appreciate it.

Are you proud of the town you’ve built? 

We’d like to see it! We’re looking for towns that we can use to share in our marketing and on social media (you all make things so much more beautiful than we can), as well as to test how the game runs with complex town mechanics. If you want to send one along, you can submit a feedback form, and just say END-GAME TOWN in the description. That’ll send us a copy of your save! Stay tuned here on Steam in the next few months, we’ll have a lot of exciting news to share. And if you have a friend interested in Go-Go Town!, make sure to have them follow the game so they get updates!

Cheers,

Emily and the Prideful Sloth team

Hello Mayors!

Just in case you missed last month, we shared our 2026 Roadmap, and part of that was sharing that we’ve got a little update for you in honor of Valentine’s Day and Chinese New Year! We’ve got a bunch of goodies, but most importantly is our new horse vehicle!

It comes in quite a few colors, and it will be randomized, but we already have our favorites—do you? And of course, you’ll have to find where it is on the map! But if you get stuck, there’s always our Discord and Wiki to help guide the way.

And of course, that’s not all! We’ve got some new décor to go along with it. You’ll be able to get all these from Papa Wheelie, our seasonal vendor. Here’s the full list:

Wallpapers

• Hearts

• Moon Fan

• Peach Blossom

• Lucky Clouds

Props

• Heart Pillow

• Heart Gift Box 

• Love Potion 

• Horse Plushie 

• Heart Plushie

…and don’t forget, there’s all the props from last year that you can use to decorate your home and town for Chinese New Year! 

Please tag us on social media if you have particularly good setups with the new décor (or even in general!), we can be found as @gogotowngame on most platforms and we love seeing everyone’s towns!

Also while we won’t be on sale for this holiday, we will have a sale coming next month, so stay tuned! 

cheers,

Emily and the Go-Go Town! team

Welcome to 2026, Mayors! We’re excited to have you here, especially because this is the year Go-Go Town! comes to 1.0! Yes, we too cannot wait! 

But first, we’ve got a little content update for you coming up next month. As you’ll see below, we won’t be doing any more Major Updates because we’re focused on the Majorest Update of them all: our 1.0 release for PC and Switch 1. But we can’t can’t help but do a little drop to give you some extra goodies for Lunar New Year and Valentine’s Day!

Speaking of our upcoming release, we have been working closely with our Discord community to test and feedback on potential features and changes we are working on for 1.0. If you are keen to see what we are working on (and have your voice heard) don’t wait and JOIN US in the Discord! You’ll want to opt in to our Preview Branch channels when in there (Head to “Channels & Roles”) and you’ll get access to channels where we’ll make those calls to action!

Cheers,

Emily & the Go-Go Town! team

Hello Mayors! 

It’s here, it’s here, our SIXTH major update, Online Co-op is here! This has been an update we have been hard at work at for some time, so it’s wonderful to see it come to fruition!

Co-op Overview

There’s a lot involved with online co-op and we’ve taken so much of what we learned from local co-op (which is still available!) and supercharged it.

The Basics are here, but we’ve got a very long FAQ on Steam that you can check out for specifics, but tl;dr:

• Play with up to 4 players

• You can mix online and local in the same game

• Invite your Steam Friends with a simple click, or share a code for people to join your game

This update also has a LOT of community-driven features, so we're marking those with 💡 in all our notes!

Co-op Permissions 🎛️ When you invite people to town, there can be a range of what you want them to be able to do. You'll now have 3 tiers (Vice-Mayor, Townie & Tourist) and for each you can set the permissions of what they're allowed to do in your town, from building, importing items, using EGO and more Text Chat & Emotes 💬💢 Chat with your fellow players easily AND we've now got emotes, so you don't even need your words to say you're happy, sad, angry or more. High-fives and rock paper scissors have now moved to the emote picker so it's even easier to start them up

Location Ping & Widget to see other players 📍 It's a big map, so how do you keep track of where your friends are? Add this new widget which will point you in the right direction to find them. And you can always put out a ping to help them find you! 💡 Phones for all players 📱 All players will now get their own phones! Based on permissions, you might not get all the apps that P1 has (and they'll still manage the Town Info) but you can import, export, and play tunes to your heart's content.  What if a player leaves? 🧳 Someone has to leave mid-session? They'll leave all their things in a duffle bag, so you can take back any tools or items they're holding. If you leave the duffle as-is, though you can build them a maze that they have to escape from when they come back. Your call!

But wait, there’s more! 

We’ve used this as a chance to put in a bunch of things we’ve been working on (and have merged our Q4 update into this one) so it’s extra-full. Here’s a look at some of the key features:

💡 Shop rotation The ability to 🔁 rotate shops 🏪 has been our #1 request for some time, so we're so excited that after a lot of work (those pesky NPCs) we've gotten it to work! (and there are alternates on what the backs can look like) And if you can rotate the shops, what else can you rotate? Well, everything. Give it a go!

💡 Move the train station & zone entrances 🚉 Want a Spirited-Away style ocean-side train station? Or to hide it within some woods in the back of the map? What about just rotating it sideways? You’ll be able to adjust it to wherever you like. And why stop there? Move the deep forest, sewer and mine entrances to better locations in your town (so you won't have to build around them)

Fast Travel 💨 Want to travel to far locations more quickly? TownCo has the solution! Once you find and repair stations in the outer areas, you'll be able to build a handy-dandy hub in town, and you can schedule go-kart races much faster! New Tools 🦨🥾 While digging underneath Go-Go Town!, a few... strange items were discovered. Explore to find them and then, well, perhaps a bit of chaos is in order…

💡 Eat food from (selected) shops! 🍟 All those delicious food products that you've wanted to eat? We get it. You can now eat the food from select shops AND once you've eaten it: free garbage for you! Make sure to find a trash can… or…. Eat garbage 🗑️ Does what it says on the tin. There will be consequences!  Throw Items 🤾🏽 Ever wanted to hit your friend with a Horned Ribeye? Or maybe just an egg? Now, if you have something in your backpack, you can put it in your hand, then throw it at another player, into storage, or even in another player's backpack! Try hitting a player with garbage and see what happens New Vehicles 🚘 Your friends are now in town, so how will you carry them around town? We've got brand new rides:

• Hooptie - yes, it has hydraulics

• Hackney Motorbike - perfect for taking a friend on a tour

• Good-E-Bike - why have one person on a bike when you can have four?

• Flying Broom - just for one, but why would you want to share?

• Galaxy Bouncer - just for fun :)

QOL things

Couple things that we’ve added to make your life easier:

💡 Named Save Profiles 🔤 Want to keep your save separate from a loved one? A town for friends and a town for yourself? Want to run weird experiments? You can now have multiple towns that are easy to swap between so you can keep everything neatly organized. (And you don’t have to share—unless you want to) 💡 Import Catalogue Changes 🛃 Big on importing but hate TownCo's cooldowns? Worry no longer! You can import as much as you want, provided you have the tickets for it. Now you can also import more POI should your heart desire—build a coastful of lighthouses! 

More Content!

Look, you want more townies and goodies, we want to give you more townies and goodies.   💡 New Townies 🆕 NINE new townies for you to invite to join the town New Player Clothing 🥽 Three new clothing items for you to collect: Goggles, Pretty Fly Hat and the Rocket Backpack New Items! 🛏️ A bunch of new goodies to get at vendors or find in the world: 

• New beds (including a hammock)

• Dockable security camera

• Camping tent to house a single townie

• Campfire

• New health-themed items, including a Mood Swing, Meditation Pillow, Community Book Stand, and Koi Pond

• A dumpster for storing more trash

• 💡 A storage skip for storing more… storage

• Two new rides for townies (and you)

We’ve been having quite a lot of fun running around with people in online co-op, and we know you all will as well. Please share with us any funny moments, or how you’ve redesigned your town now that you can rotate everything, we really do love to see it. 

Our Discord is also a great place to find people to play with, share designs you’re proud of, and chat about the game.

Cheers,

Emily & the Prideful Sloth team

Rotation!

• Everything (yes everything) should now be rotatable

• Train station and Zone Transitions (entrances to Sewer, Forest and Mines) in the main level can now be moved and rotated.

Town Profiles

• You can now create and Name a Town Profile.

• Your chosen name will be reflected in the In-Game Leaderboards.

• Change, Rename, Delete or Create new profiles from the main menu.

• Saves within a profile are grouped together, letting you create new towns without having to worry about losing your old ones.

Online Multiplayer

• You can now build, manage, and cause chaos together... Go-Go Town! now supports up to 4-player online co-op.

• Host a town and invite friends to join.

• Join games instantly from your friends list.

• Share an invite code to jump straight into the action.

• Supports any mixture of up to 4 online or split-screen players.

• Text chat, emotes, and locational pings let you plan, prank, or plot together however you like.

• Assign roles such as Vice Mayor, Townie, or Tourist.

  • customise permissions to control who can build, buy, or manage.

• Players leaving a session drop a duffle bag with all their gear.

  • re-join later and pick up right where you left off.

  • Move the bag in build mode if it gets in the way.

  • Collect the bag to pilfer any needed resources from absent friends.

• Items, vehicles, and tools persist within each multiplayer world, making every shared town a unique co-creation.

• Build, explore, and wreak havoc together — the whole town is now a multiplayer sandbox.

Townies

• Added 9 new townies to discover and put to work!

Updated NPC Visuals:

• Dinosaurs visuals have been updated.

• Dinosaur townies and trader have been updated with unique coloring.

• Mummy townies have been updated with unique coloring.

New Tools

• 2 new top-secret lost prototype tools to have fun with and cause chaos.

Fast Travel System

• Explore the world to discover a secret network of connected areas...

• Added fast travel points to areas outside the town area to be discovered and constructed.

• Added a buildable fast travel point that can be built in town.

New Items + Trader Inventory Updates

• Added 3 new beds to Lazy Jeffs Inventory, Single Bed, Bunk Bed and Hammock

• Added Large Pot Plant to Beaufort III Inventory

• Added Dockable Security Camera to Agent Bubblegums Inventory

• Added new townie housing option

• Camping Tent that houses a single townie

• Added new health desire dressing objects

  • Mood Swing

  • Meditation Pillow

  • Community Book Stand

  • Koi Pond

• Added new rest desire dressing object

  • Camp Fire

• Added new large garbage storage option

  • Dumpster

• Added new large item storage option

  • Storage Skip

• Added new entertainment desire objects

  • Rocket Ride

  • UFO Ride

Tech Tree Updates

• Added new townie housing options, item storage, garabage storage and select desire objects to various existing packages.

New Player Clothing Options

• Goggles

• Pretty Fly Hat

• Rocket Backpack

Change-O-Tron updates

• Extra Change-O-Trons now appear in the build menu and have had their build costs reduced to zero.

• Change-O-Tron now appears in the TownCo. Imports.

New Vehicles

• The Hooptie (with hydraulics of course). Perfect for cruising around with 4 players!

• Galaxy Bouncer

• Good "E" Bike

• Hackney Motorbike

• Flying Broom

New Player Interactions

• Throwing/Consuming Items.

  • You can now transfer items from your backpack <-> held in hand.

  • You can throw or consume held items.

  • Thrown items can hit other players, townies and tourists...

  • ... or you can throw items into storage bins, shop storage and even other players backpacks (as long as they are facing the right direction!)

• Players can now NOM-NOM on food from shops

  • You can pick up and eat food from any fitout that produces food-on-display

  • Eating food will turn it into garbage. That's the cost of consumerism.

  • Players can eat Garbage. But we don't recommend it as part of a balanced diet.

Import Catalogue Changes

• Removed the restock cooldown on items in the Imports Catalogue.

• As long as you've got tickets you can buy as many as you want.

• Players can now purchase more of the POI Buildings (Lighthouse, Conservatory, Stadium, Hot Springs) from the Import Catalogue.

Misc/Bugfixes

• Added third Arcade Machine variant for the Upright Arcade Machine

• Added audio to a variety of props.

• Added Eat/Drink effects and audio

• Workers now cycle through all available items when crafting.

• Workers at fitouts will now reserve output space for each item they produce, ensuring that there is always space for each item

• Updates to the player crafting mini-game to make it more snazzy!

• Changed the name of Mushrooms to Button Mushrooms to make it less confusing with Field Mushrooms.

• Updated the mushroom visuals to make them easier to distinguish.

• Workers will consider items on the floor before harvesting new ones when backfilling

• Fixed an issue where Metal Mining nodes could block workers

• Industry Workers can now deposit while holding tools

• Industry workers will now consider foraging when collecting ingredients for makers

• Fixed issue where Courier Priority and Recipe panels could display on incorrect buildings

• Removed 1 tile free space requirement for Fluff; should ensure more Fluff spawns

• Fixed issues with Tourists not correctly moving through Queues.

• Fixed Sakura's Join Request only accepting one specific type of Tree

• Adjusted Eva's Join Request to work with multiple types of Trader Area

• Gave Grot tourists some tummy medicine to stop them from throwing up constantly.

• Resolved some issues where the player could get stuck in the tutorial if player 2 completed a ribbon cut while player 1 was busy elsewhere.

Hello Mayors!

Happy Halloween! Don’t forget to fully deck out your town with pumpkins, creepy fences, and put on your fangs, because it’s almost Halloween!

But we’ve got even more to share with you today, so let’s dive in! 

Online Co-op comes to Preview

We had an absolutely wonderful closed Alpha test (and squashed some good bugs) and are happy to share that you can try out online co-op on the Preview branch now! If you haven't accessed this branch before, it's quite easy. You can find how to opt-in here ⤵️

We are aiming to bring co-op to main branch late November, but in the meantime if you do want to help us kick the proverbial Tricornicycle tires, we would greatly appreciate it. If you have friends around the world, even better, but any and all feedback is very, very welcome at this phase. 

And here’s what you’ll be able to look forward to: 

• four player online co-op 

• play with both local and online players simultaneously

• chat and emotes, and the ability to ping your location so people can find you

• set different interactivity levels for visitors to your town—turn on all permissions for trusted people, turn them off for folks just passing through

• all players get their own phones (in both local and online co-op!)

• fast travel to far zones BUT you'll have to figure out how to unlock it first!

• named save profiles! (i.e. easily swap between different towns you’ve created)

• new (weird) tools

Our favorite new things include being able to eat from certain shops! 

Food will then become garbage, which you can throw away like a good citizen OR throw it at other players

(you can also throw anything from your backpack!) 

Rotating shops coming soon! 🔁 🏪 🔁

After terraforming, pretty much our top request has been: when can I rotate shops? And we heard you! We’ve been working very hard to make this possible (lots of NPC pathing issues 😅) BUT we’ve figured it out! It should be coming to Preview in the next few weeks, and main after that. And look how good it looks!

We truly cannot wait to see how this transforms your towns, so please share pictures with us! 

cheers,

Emily & the Prideful Sloth team

New Build is up! It's 0.6.103.21279

New Trader

• Sells new and some old seasonal items

New Clothing Options

• Vamp Backpack

• Jack O' Backpack

• Vamp Fangs

• Mono-Fang

New Decorations

• Marker Stone

• Spooky Barrier

• Pitcher Plant

• Stink Flower

• Flytrap Plant

• Thornvine Plant

Added different colored Hedge Terrain tiles

• Sprouts the trader now sells yellow, orange and black hedge terrain variants

• Pink hedge variant comes from the same place as pink grass...

Fixes

• Coin Shower weather audio has been reworked to be less obtrusive

Hello Mayors! 

Halloween is right around the corner, and we’ve added a few spooky things into the game to get you into the spirit—or build the creepy haunted garden of your dreams (or both).

There are four new creepy plants, a new type of fence, and a marker stone, and we’ve added a new vendor who will sell all these items, as well as other spooky items already in the game (jack o lanterns!). There will also be new hedges that match the different grass types, so you can build the night grass maze of your dreams (please show us)

…and of course, a few more seasonal backpacks for you, as well as new fang types to complete your look!

Autumn Sale

Relatedly (naturally), the Autumn Sale is now live on Steam, so Go-Go Town! is also on sale for 25% off. The perfect time to pick up a copy to get prepared for online co-op!

Co-op Update

We’re still hard at work at co-op, and wanted to give you an update on timing.

We’re kicking off a small alpha test starting this week to start to really put the update through its paces. If you want to sign up, you can fill out the form HERE. We won’t be able to take everyone, but we will keep folks in mind for any playtesting in the future!

In mid/late October, it’ll head to the Preview Build for six weeks or so. We’re consciously having a longer time in Preview than our normal updates because, well, this is our first multiplayer game! We’ve also upgraded to a new version of Unity, so we’re very eager to hear from people with varied setups, wifi connections, friends around the world, and more, and want to give it time to make sure any potential issues can be ironed out. If you’re in our Discord, make sure to opt-in to the Preview Branch channels (this will link to Discord fyi) to share any of your thoughts! 

Once that’s done and we’re comfortable with how it runs, we’ll push it through to the main branch. Current plan is late Nov/early Dec, but we’re holding that date flexible in case we run into anything major.

Phew! We can’t wait until you all get a chance to jump in, and here’s a quick peek at a few feature that will come with this update: FAST TRAVEL to far zones.

Mysterious new buildings have popped up in different far-reaching locations, and if you unlock them, well… you just might find a speedier way to get to the go-kart track, among other things!

More to come, so stay tuned! 

Cheers,

Emily and the Prideful Sloth team

Hey Mayors!

We’ve been keeping this one under wraps for a while, but the time has finally come to shout it from the rooftops:

We’ve had tons of requests for a Switch version since day one, and it’s finally happening. We can’t wait for you to clock in as mayor wherever you are- whether that’s your couch, your commute, or your cozy gaming nook.

In the meantime, we’re still building toward a jam-packed 1.0 launch on PC, so stay tuned for more updates, optimisations, and surprises coming your way soon (hello, online co-op!!)

As always, we are SO appreciative of all your support and cannot wait for more people to get their hands on the game. 

Let’s go-go!

Emily & the Go-Go Town! team

The Tourist Trap Update is here, and with it comes a bustling mix of new visitors, specific requests, unique landmarks, and some good ol’ industrial-grade expansion.

There’s absolutely loads to unpack and major changes to how tourism works as well as lots more complex buildings to do, and we’re SO excited for you to dig in.

Here’s what’s new:

🗺️ Tourists With Opinions (And Desires!)

Tourists now have personalities, preferences, and demands. Each type brings their own set of desires - Entertainment, Rest, Hunger, Health, Exploration, and Shopping -  and how well you meet those needs affects your town rating.

Build with a balance in mind… or don’t. But don’t be surprised when they complain to the boss (that’s you)! 

⭐️ Food & Shopping Ratings

Every recipe now has a star rating! Some tourists have expensive taste, others are happy with a hot dog on a stick. Offer a mix of 1, 2, and 3-star items to satisfy everyone, or risk scaring off your posh punters and your bargain-hunters. 

💬 Tourist Thought Bubbles

You’ll now see exactly what tourists think with new emoji-style thought bubbles - happy, frustrated, or looking for something that doesn’t exist yet, because you forgot to build it. It’s all tracked in your Tourist Tracker hub, which you can turn off if the crushing weight of public judgement becomes too much. 

🧢 Hot New Bombshells Enter the Villa Town 

Our new tourist type, Easy-Goers, are chill and easy to please - so they're going to be with you from the moment you start building a new town, to give you a bit of breathing room while you’re working things out. You’ll know them by their snazzy straw hats.

Plus: We’ve officially added Robots, Dinosaurs, Aliens, Clowns into the tourist pool to join the Ghosts, Mummies, and Werewolves! They’ll all arrive via a new method though…

🏟️ Transit Terminals

Want more aliens? Build the Moon Terminal. More clowns? Build the... well, Clown Tent. These new Tourist Spawners let you control who visits your town. And yes — you can build them and leave them OFF if you want to ban clowns forever.

⛰️ CLIFF. TERRAFORMING. IS. HERE. FINALLY!!!!!

Need space for your mega-stadium? Tear down that cliff. You can now build and destroy cliff tiles across the main map after you unlock \. Go nuts.

🧑‍🏭 New Townies

With new tourists come new townies! One for each exotic tourist type. Recruit them to unlock their transit terminal and attract more of their kind.

🏗️ Major Landmarks + Tier 3 Industry

Want to supercharge your tourism game? Build one of four Massive Landmarks:

• Stadium (Entertainment)

• Hot Springs (Health)

• Conservatory (Rest)

• Lighthouse (Exploration)

But you’ll need serious infrastructure — including the new Factory and Tier 3 materials like Reinforced Brackets, Encabulator Cubes, and more. It’s time to upgrade your industry!

🛢️ YUM GREASE™️+  New Recipes

Yes. YUM GREASE™️ is real. Use it in your factory for that extra slide. Plus, cook up:

•  Lava Lamps

•  Dirty Mags

• Seafood Sticks

A balanced diet, right?

🔧 + QoL Improvements & Preview Branch

There’s a bunch of small improvements and fixes too — from UI tweaks to performance boosts. And for those who like living on the edge, remember you can opt in to the Preview Branch to test upcoming features before they go live (don’t worry — your save is safe).

 …and just one more thing (ok, three)

We’ve got a few things that we’ve saved for launch—not even the Preview Branch has seen these yet! 

WATERFALLS

While you’re tearing down your cliffs, don’t forget to save a few to add waterfalls to. Add water close to the edge of the cliff, and it will make a waterfall. This means you can add water tiles to the cliff level too, so feel free to build out a series of very high lakes to admire.

WATER JETS

Got a body of water (either natural or man-made) that you want to spruce up? Add a fountain jet! You can rotate between three variants (up high, low arc and high arc) to create the fountains of your dreams.

NEW TERRAIN TILES

With our new urbanism, we’ve added four new terrain tiles to collect and augment in your town. They’ll rotate in to Tiny Timba’s shop to purchase! (and we’ve also adjusted the borders on other tiles so they match a bit better!)

💬 Tell us what you think!

We’re always listening, like a true omnipotent force. 

So whether your town is a five-star utopia or a flaming bin alley with a Lighthouse, we want to see it! You can find us here:

Join the Discord

Bluesky

Twitter

TikTok

Thank you SO much for helping us shape Go-Go Town! We’re just getting started, so stay tuned for more exciting updates coming soon! 

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Tourist Updates

• Behaviour, preferences, and desires... tourist AI has had an overhaul!
  • Tourist types now have distinct preferences, desires and traits. Fulfilling these affects their EGO review of your town.
  • Build menu objects are marked as showing how effective they are at meeting desires. These are:
    • Entertainment
    • Rest
    • Hunger
    • Health
    • Exploration
    • Shopping
  • Food and shopping items now have a 3-star preference system. You'll need to offer a wide variety of items to keep your tourists happy!
• Reduced tourist train frequency from 6 trains to 4 trains a day
• Removed "exotic" tourist types from arriving on the train (Exotic townies will still appear on the train)
• Updated the spawn balance of the regular tourist types to have a better mix of each tourist type

New Tourist Type

• Easy-goers: A simple tourist type that as long as their most basic needs are met, they're hard to displease!

Tourist Thought Bubbles

• Tourists will periodically share their thoughts on what they're experiencing, giving you an insight into their behaviour and needs.
• New options in the Gameplay tab, allowing you to choose how vocal they are.

Townpedia Updates

• Added new guide entries for each tourist type which describes what desires they require as well as what traits they have
• Added guide entry for explaining tourist desires

Tier 3 Industry

• Build the Factory to fuse togethor resources from multiple industries
• Produce space-age wonder materials! perfect for advanced large scale projects (as well as more specialized use-cases...)
  • Expandable Rod
  • Encabulator Cube
  • Reinforced Brackets
  • Structural Plating

New Fishing Industry Resource

• Craft Yum Grease from Deep Sea Cutlets
• Added recipes to select fitouts to use Yum Grease
  • Lava Lamp added to the Crafter medium fitout
  • Seafood Sticks added to the Fish N Chip Shop small fitout
  • Dirty Mag added to the Book Nook small fitout
• Yum Grease is also used in the manufacturing of Tier 3 materials!

New Townies

• 7 new exotic townies to invite to live and work in your town!
  • Each townie will offer a new Transit Terminal to build...
  • ...Some of their townie friends will need to be in your town before they appear though!
• 2 new "regular" townies. Yep, totally normal.

Transit Terminals

• You'll now be able to build Transit Terminals to allow your more... exotic tourist types to visit.
  • 7 new Transit Terminals to build
  • Ability to open/close each terminal, allowing you to customize your tourist flow.
  • Please note this changes the spawn behaviour of existing 'exotic' tourists.

Major Landmarks

• Invest your hard earned resources into constructing new Major Landmarks:
  • Lighthouse
  • Conservatory
  • Hot Springs
  • Stadium
• These iconic buildings aren’t just for show; they'll help tourists fulfill their desires.

Terraforming Updates

• At a certain point, you'll unlock the ability to edit and place elevated tile types. This gives you access to:
  • Cliff
    • Clear out extra land or add Cliffs where you'd like them!
  • New Cliff Water terraforming tile
    • Make elevated bodies of water
    • Produces waterfalls when on the edge of cliffs
  • Forest Edge
    • Dense forest foliage
• We've refined the Sand, Slow-Sand, and Dirt tile visuals for a more natural, organic appearance.
• Footpath tile updates and additions
  • Footpath tile types now have colored edging to improve the previous 'gray outline' visual
  • We've made 4 new tile types to decorate your town with, check with trader Tina Timba
    • Olde Towne Pavers
    • Peach Piazza
    • Scalloped Flagstone
    • Arcade Blocks

Customization Options

• Houses/Apartments are no longer random; choose which variation you want with the 'Cycle Visual' feature in build mode
• Added new visual variants for certain directional barriers and lampposts
  • Lamp Post
  • Gothic Lamp Post
  • Metro Lamp post
  • Park Light
  • Firefly Lamp Post
  • Hanging Lanterns
  • Lantern Lamp post
  • Bamboo Barrier
  • Green Bamboo Barrier
  • Wood Fence
  • Highway Barrier
  • Roadworks Barrier
  • Rose Bush Barrier
• Flaming Barrel
• Water Jet; a new water based decoration that can be angled and rotated for water displays
• "Pink Flamingo" has been renamed to "Plastic Flamingo", and now supports custom painting

Courier Delivery Priority

• Manage the courier delivery priority on fitouts, food carts, market stalls and the new factories.
• You can now set the courier delivery priority to High, Standard, Low or None

UI Improvements

• Added new User Icons for tourist types (Aliens, Clown, Dino, Ghost, Mummy, Robot, Wolf)
• Added a tally to show the number of fitouts built in town when inspecting in the manage menu
• Added support for showing item tags on recipe cards
• Show desire panels when hovering and moving props

Audio updates

• Trains now CHOO-CHOO and have arrival/departure whistles
• New voice types for Aliens, Dino's (Grarr), and another neutral tourist variant type

Misc. Changes

• Moved the fireworks launchers to the basic category and the wishing well out of the statues group in the build menu
• Added map filter for new tourist spawners
• Small adjustments to early game pacing to make it easier to generate EGO and unlock early EGO packages
• Increased the input storage size of the Book Nook small fitout so that it can fit new recipes and has more room for ingredients
• Added Tripod Work Light to Trader Griswald's inventory.
• Rich tourists drop coins 50% of the time
• When leaving town, tourists now react with their EGO review BEFORE visually exiting
• Updated Hypnotron visual

Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue where workers would ignore newly placed transition levels (ie mines) until they quit and reloaded the game
• Fix crashes when clown spawners were set to disabled
• Fixed issue where prop colliders could persist after build mode, causing tourists to get stuck
• Resolved issue where tourists would complain about rest if they had filled their idle stat
• Reduced the distance that clown shoes are heard at
• Squared up the garbage bin offsets for rotation alignment
• Fixed issue where you could terraform cliff and water tiles under POI objects
• Coins dropped by rich tourists will now vanish after an hour
• Rich tourist wallets will no longer get bigger each time they drop a coin
• Various performance improvements
• Fixed some rules allowing undesired terraforming beneath players/actors
• Prevent overlapping tourist speech bubbles
• Fixed a bug in which a passenger could store a vehicle sending the vehicle (and the driver) to Limbo.

Hello Mayors! 

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!) 

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!

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!

Tourism

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!

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!

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!

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...

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!

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.

Industry

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!

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!

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!

And one more thing...

Cliff Terraforming is here! ⛰️ Need more room for those major landmarks? TEAR DOWN THE CLIFFS! Once you've \, you'll be able to build and destroy cliffs to your heart's content across the main map!

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! 

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!

Cheers,

Emily and the Go-Go Town! team

G’day mayors! 

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:

And the rest of this year has even more things to come, as you might have already seen in our updated Roadmap:

(but just in case you haven’t...) 

• Major Update 5: Tourist Trap launching on July 15th/16th (depending on where you are in the world)*

  • Huge updates to tourist behavior

  • Control which supernatural and otherworldly tourists visit your town

  • New industry buildings and large-scale landmarks to build

• Online Co-op (Major Update #6 if you’re counting) coming in late Q3 

  • The one you’ve all been waiting for! 

  • Play with friends online and create the most chaotic town yet!

• Major Update 7: Wheels In Motion coming in Q4

  • Stuck with a van in a color you don’t like—not anymore!

  • Lots of new updates to how you store, manage, & customize vehicles

  • Yes, this means you can color the pillbug (you’re welcome)

*and if you want to get a sneak peek at Tourist Trap (which includes ability to destroy and build \!, it’s currently available in the Preview Build right now!

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…

We’ll be coming out of Early Access and launching V1 of Go-Go Town! in the first half of 2026! 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉

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.

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. 

The Go-Go Town! team

TAVERN KEEPER (DEMO)

TINY BOOKSHOP (DEMO)

IS THIS SEAT TAKEN (DEMO)

ISLANDS AND TRAINS (OUT NOW!)

…and much, much more:

• Spring Orange Grass Terrain Tile
• Spring Yellow Grass Terrain Tile
• Spring Wild flower Grass Terrain Tile
• Night Grass Terrain Tile
• Rose Wood Interior Terrain Tile
• Buzzy Plushie Doodad
• Picnic Hamper Doodad
• Acorn Bowl Doodad
• Flower Pillow Doodad
• Rustic Sign Post Decoration
• Small Woven Rug Decoration
• Large Woven Rug Decoration
• Runner Rug Decoration
• Picnic Blanket Decoration
• Straw Hat Clothing Item

• Stinky Grots will now wait a while before stinking up the joint, should mean no more rainbow sickness right at the entrance to your towns.
• Added a fourth worker slot for all industries
• Players now have a dim light around them in dark environments such as caves
• Added Food Cart - Tac-Oh! and supporting Taco Recipe to the Expanded Fitouts package in tier 4 of EGO Tech
• Players can now build in the ||Alien spawn|| area
• Added scooter vehicle, it can be purchased through imports once the Courier building is unlocked
• Small House and Apartments can now be rotated
• Small House and Apartments now have a visual indication for vacancy
• Weather Randomisation: Weather will now follow a more predictable pattern. Cherry Blossoms for all!
• Managed Stalls: Players can now set up to 5 items on Market Stalls and Vending Machines for couriers to auto-deliver!
• Players who have completed all the challenges are able to remove the todo widget from the HUD.
• Player can now open their phone while holding a tool or driving a vehicle
• Build mode prompts will now say 'Store' for items that will be returned to your inventory / discovered, and 'delete' for items that will be destroyed

• Seeds for crops are now infinite and can be planted as many times as you want
• Removed random seed drops from crops and the world
• Crops will now reset after harvest instead of having to be replanted
• Removed random feed drops from crops
• Added new farm machine, Automated Feed Maker, which generates feed over time
• Added non dairy cheese and butter alt recipes to EGO Tech and Dairy Maker
• Changed challenge 04 requirement to build a dairy maker instead of cow stall

• Added a new fishing machine, Lobster Pot which harvests lobsters
• Changed the Crab Pot to only harvest crabs
• Increased the time it takes to harvest crabs and lobsters
• Added water effects when crab/lobster pots are dropped into the water
• Added water disturbance effect when crab/lobster is ready to retrieve

• Slothtunes now supports multiple playlists, with 3 curated "Stations":
  • Mega Mingle: All available music. Party on!
  • Lo-fi and Chill: For a softer cozy experience. Vibe away.
  • Funk 'n' Bop: For higher energy toe-tapping.
• PLUS you can also customize your playlist by...
  • favouriting tracks: This will add the track to a 4th completely custom station.
  • muting tracks: This will skip the track, allowing you to prune any songs you're not a fan of.
• Added 24 minutes of new music
• Made the drone propeller sounds a bit quieter and less annoying!

• Players can now store a tool and a vehicle in their patented TownCo Dimensional Pockets
• This allows quick and easy access at a moments notice!
• Includes a new UI Widget to help track your currently stored items.

• Added 4 TV channel visual variants
• Added visual variants to car parks and bike racks
• Added dockable surfaces to Rustic Picnic Table and Outdoor Setting
• Worklight tripod can now be painted
• Park assets (swing, slide, light, bench) can now be painted
• All bridges can now be painted
• Garbage bins can now be painted

• Increased the default amount you can rotate the camera horizontally
• Camera will pan slightly to the side when using the phone app to better frame the character.
• Added experimental 360 degree camera mode. You can find this in the options menu!

• Shows a breakdown of information from your fitouts, industries, workers, houses
• Highlights items in alert state ( ie, Townie can't path to destination, or Mana Extractors need moving)
• Should help you get a better understanding of your town as a whole, and what items you should be producing!

• Trader spawn randomisation has been adjusted to provide a better distribution of Traders and Products
• You will now get a new notification showing what each trader is bringing, with a special highlight for previously unseen items
• New Trader UI!
• Players can now purchase as many items as they like from the available stock
• Players can now purchase any items they have previously seen from a Trader's back catalogue
• Players are able to see the entire stock for a Trader to know if there are items they have yet to collect.

• You can now cycle through the colours in a swatch

• Added a host of new bindable controls! Including keyboard binds for player movement and camera control

• Fixed Gem visual mismatch (Gem items, Gem Nodes, and Gem Dust are now visually unified)
• Fixed collision on Subway Map Sign
• Fixed vehicle wheel rotation speed with the POWER OF MATH!
• Fixed missing ducky dockable drop from Octowurst fishing spot
• Fixed Swift-Rolla animation loss when going off-screen
• Fixed Bug in build mode where after cycling through targets paint would not be applied to the chosen target
• Workers will no longer water empty plots or dead plants

360° camera rotation (!!)

Couriers stocking market stalls

Rotating houses and apartments

New Trader UI

Automated Feed Makers

• Good Fortune Bag
• Maneki-neko (aka Lucky Cat)
• Snek Plushie
• Decorative Fan
• Sycee

• Decorative Fans
• Lucky Knotwork
• Dynasty Wallpaper
• Dynasty Barrier

• Getting online co-op into your hands | After player housing, this is the #1 thing you all want, and we want to make sure it’s great. This means giving the local co-op a polish pass, too :)
• More Sim/Automation/Town Building gameplay | We’ve added a lot on the creative expression end of things, so next year we want to focus on expanding the sim/management/automation side.
• MORE CONTENT INCOMING! | We've heard your requests for new items/objects to discover (and interact with), so we’ve got plans for even more, both indoors and outdoors, to expand and decorate your town.
• New features and polish | We’re dedicated to making this game truly one-of-a-kind, with features and mechanics you won’t find elsewhere. 2025 will bring more innovations along with a focus on refining the overall experience to make it shine.

• Best In Show - Screen Queensland Awards
• Best Social Game - TIGA Games Industry Awards
• Coziest Co-op - Cozy Quest Awards