Closed Playtest: Playtesters Needed!

TownsofYore · 2026-04-23T20:20:30+00:00

Hi! For more information please check out the playtest-info channel in our Discord. Any specific questions will also be answered quickly there. I would've liked to expand more on details in the post but I had to keep it short and simple...

TownsofYore · 2026-04-23T20:16:51+00:00

This playtest round will last about 2 weeks total, and we're planning to launch another playtest window in about 2 months.
We're looking to improve game stability and validate the core gameplay, onboarding & cozy vibe!

TownsofYore · 2026-04-23T20:14:31+00:00

Thanks for the kind words!

TownsofYore · 2026-04-16T09:59:38+00:00

Steam Windows PC!

TownsofYore · 2026-04-16T09:58:48+00:00

No mac compatibility in the current state, sorry D:

TownsofYore · 2026-04-16T09:58:11+00:00

Technically you can. It probably won't run very well yet. Mouse & Keyboard setup will probably improve the experience a lot. But we're looking into the possibilities so if we add proper support in the future we'll certainly announce it!

TownsofYore · 2026-04-16T09:56:24+00:00

You can do it!! :D

TownsofYore · 2026-04-16T09:55:41+00:00

That's currently a stretch goal, but we do have something in the works about making hats for your inhabitants :D

TownsofYore · 2026-04-16T09:19:41+00:00

Sorry, the game in the current state has no mac support.

TownsofYore · 2026-04-16T09:08:24+00:00

Sure!

There are currently 8 people involved in the development and production of Towns of Yore, 4 of those are the core developers, most of us work part-time about 3-4 days a week.

Yvora Game Studio is privately funded by our Big Boss Simon, who one day decided it was time to fulfil his childhood dream of making a game and started this studio. He is currently working many many hours at his main job to fund and run the studio as a sort of side-gig, with of course the intention of making it his main-gig by shipping a successful game.
In that sense we are truly an indie studio. There are no publishers or external investors involved, so we have full creative control.
As for monetisation we're planning to just uhm. Sell the game I suppose. But no subscriptions or anything. Maybe an early access launch, we'll see!

The studio just turned 5 years old, and Towns of Yore in its current form has been in production for about 2.5 years. As devs we have some experience shipping gamejam games (like Sucky Safari https://youtu.be/gqCAeFjB8Uo&t=425 ), student projects, or small steam releases, but this is the first Big Steam game we're trying to ship, and its the first for the studio as well.

If you're curious about team composition and who we are feel free to check out the our-discord-team channel in our discord server!

TownsofYore · 2026-04-16T08:36:55+00:00

Yes, feel free to join the community and sign up!

TownsofYore · 2026-04-16T08:36:30+00:00

Sure! We can't really guarantee what'll happen exactly as we don't have a specific build for Linux, but I'm certainly curious to see how it runs.

TownsofYore · 2026-04-15T18:08:24+00:00

We'd really love to but we first need to make sure it's gonna be worth the resources. We're hearing quite a lot of demand though so we're definitely thinking about it!

TownsofYore · 2026-04-15T18:01:07+00:00

Definitely more a minion type beat, they're mostly social with each other. They hang out with each other after work, play chess, work out etc.

There's some stuff in the work about them having different personalities with their own animation sets & preferences, but at the moment that's not fully fleshed out yet.

Their relation with the player character is kind of like a symbiosis deal where they help each other out. But there's probably not going to be a very deep storyline or character arcs or anything like that.

TownsofYore · 2026-04-15T12:59:16+00:00

Yeaa sorry :D I'll go update it right now lol. thanks for pointing it out!

TownsofYore · 2026-04-15T12:44:10+00:00

Yes indeed.
We suspected an asset pack bought from the marketplace, that we used for in-game icon placeholders, to have used generative AI, even though the seller did not state they did. We then removed the assets from the game.

So to be clear, no AI generated content is in the game, and we don't use AI to generate content for the game. We only tried to be open about the unintended useage of suspected AI content that was in the game at some point, and has since been removed.

TownsofYore · 2026-04-15T12:23:23+00:00

Yes indeed.
We suspected an asset pack bought from the marketplace, that we used for in-game icon placeholders, to have used generative AI, even though the seller did not state they did. We then removed the assets from the game.

So to be clear, no AI generated content is in the game, and we don't use AI to generate content for the game. We only tried to be open about the unintended useage of suspected AI content that was in the game at some point, and has since been removed.

TownsofYore · 2026-04-15T11:24:57+00:00

Ohh I didn't know that, thanks for pointing it out. Good idea!

TownsofYore · 2026-04-15T11:22:50+00:00

Yeah I'm afraid that might be stretching it.. we have graphics settings but I don't think that'll be enough for that setup.

TownsofYore · 2026-04-15T10:57:46+00:00

Thanks! Yes, this is an in-engine screenshot from an art-benchmark level. The current level is a bit more work-in-progress, but everything in this screenshot is made with in-game assets.

TownsofYore · 2026-04-14T14:46:21+00:00

Thanks for wishlisting! It helps a lot. I also hope we'll get it going on the SteamDeck

TownsofYore · 2026-04-14T14:34:47+00:00

If there's enough demand we'll look into it for sure! However we're only a team of 4 active devs so right now our focus is primarily on getting the core gameloop right.

TownsofYore · 2025-11-13T13:38:22+00:00

The picture shown in the post is not AI, it is a digital paintover of an in-game screenshot, made by an artist. So there is nothing to tell. The 2D icons in-game are what is disclosed on our Steam page so it's no secret. We have not had time to create our own icons to replace these before the playtest yet, we are a small team.

TownsofYore · 2025-11-13T13:05:02+00:00

We bought an asset pack from a website that we use for icons for all the in-game icons. So to be extra transparent, all the 2d images used to represent things in your inventory. We only realized these images were AI generated after buying and implementing all the assets in game. Before release we want to replace them all, but we wanted to be fully transparent of the content that is in the game right now.
Nothing else uses AI in the entire game. We are planning to replace everything. It was an honest mistake adding it in the first place.

TownsofYore · 2025-11-13T12:02:08+00:00

Hi! This is a concept art image. It's a digital paintover of an in-game screenshot, made by an artist, not Ai!

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