[PC] Towns review.

 
  Towns is an Indie game created by SMP. As quoted on their website, Townsgame.com, "Towns brings a fresh new take on the citybuilding/management genre by introducing many RPG features. Drawing inspiration from games such as Diablo, Dungeon Keeper and Dwarf Fortress, the game has you managing a settlement on top of an active dungeon. Instead of playing the hero who delves deep into the dungeon, how about playing the town that houses and caters to the hero's needs?" If you are familiar with Rougelike games, such as Dwarf Fortress, then you will find many similiarities to Town.
  
     There are eight tutorials to play with to let you get acquainted within the game. You pretty much control a small population of citizens and you make your own city based on the resources around you. You have to start small, such as cut trees for wood and farm/harvast food around you. There are enemies in which you can kill if you ever progress with a military.
  
     When you first start, you should cut down some trees and set up a Carpentry zone and then build a Carpenter's Bench This will allow you to make a ladder. When that is done, go find some stone and have your citizens dig down. Place a ladder down and you are now in the underground. You can mine it out and collect stone or mud or even some rarer minerals. Eventually, you will get some settlers who will join your citizens and your city!
  

     There are many things to make like a tavern, animal farms, a hospital, arena's and even forges for your weapons and armour! There is a high skill level to this game and like Dwarf Fortress. requires a lot of trial and error, but remember, have FUN! (I hope I don't get sued for that, Dwarf Fortress reference) Speaking of Dwarf Fortress references, I believe there is one. There is a monster called Froggy. The Dwarf Fortress programmer is known as Toady.
  
       If you go into the programs file you can see that there are configuration settings which can allow you to mod the way the game looks by changing the graphics of the game.

Final scores:

Graphics: 6/10 It reminds me of a classic game you'd find on Puzzle Pirates or something. Outdated, but it's better than Dwarf Fortress'  ASCII art. It's a 6 because you can also mod the way they look.

Music: 1/10. It's the same midi stuck on repeat. Kind of gets annoying after a while.

Gameplay: 6/10 Gameplay can be deep if you can get into it, not as many features as in Dwarf Fortress, but this game is still in Alpha.

Overall: 5/10

    Even though there are better games like Dwarf Fortress, I like what these guys are doing. And that is to make this genre feel bigger and making their own program and to spread word that these type of games exist, it's like minecraft, but with more people and more possibilities.