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Pick colors from the palette, plop down colored blocks of house on the irregular grid, and watch Townscaper's underlying algorithm automatically turn those blocks into cute little houses, arches, stairways, bridges and lush backyards, depending on their configuration.","76563\u002Ftownscaper_webp","76563\u002Ftownscaper_header_webp","https:\u002F\u002Fyoutu.be\u002F4SjAuF81c0c","2020-06-30",78,135789,"townscaper",1291340,[19,24],{"company":20,"developed":22,"published":23},{"name":21},"Raw Fury",false,true,{"company":25,"developed":23,"published":22},{"name":26},"Oskar Stålberg",[28,29],"Simulator","Indie",[31,32,33,34],"PC (Microsoft Windows)","Xbox One","Nintendo Switch","Xbox Series X|S",[36,52,67,82,97,111],{"id":37,"author":38,"outlet":41,"summary":47,"review_url":48,"review_date":49,"original_score":50,"normalized_score":51},474,{"id":39,"name":40},41,"Robert Grosso",{"id":42,"logo":43,"name":44,"website_url":45,"score_format":46},1,"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.criticdb.com\u002Fstorage\u002Fv1\u002Fobject\u002Fpublic\u002Favatars\u002FOutlets\u002FTechRaptor%20Logo.png","TechRaptor","https:\u002F\u002Ftechraptor.net","10","Townscaper is less of a game, more of a tool to simply play around with. 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