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MicroTown
Build and manage your own settlement! A relaxing village construction and management simulator.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-02 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-13.
“Amazing game and really deserves to be played by more people. It is very chilled out, the animation is just nice and cozy. The upgrades and buildings are worth pursuing and you get a solid sense of progression from them. The tutorial does a reasonably good job of getting you…”
— a player, Steam review · 22 hrs played“A Cute Little "Settlers" Game. Manage your Town. Micromanage Tasks. Cute Pixelgraphics. :)”
— a player, Steam review · 7 hrs played“I love this game!! In its beta form, it makes a fantastic interactive background while I work. I get to set things up and see how long it can go efficiently. I've had issues with it detecting the shift key on windows, but it works perfectly on my mac, and the issues might be…”
— a player, Steam review · 600 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. History through 2026-05 via SteamCharts; self-collected from the Steam API since Aug 2026.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-19.
Price tracking
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-08-12. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
EA Update #27 - Pillows
Goats A new addition is the Goat livestock animal: Butcher now accepts both pigs and goats, but produces only the relevant item from each. Previously, leatherworking would allow butcher to also produc
EA Update #26 - Patchtastic 5
In this miscellaneous summary update I've added a bunch of small features and fixed some random bugs. Visuals I worked on various small visual changes to polish up some of the areas of the game that w
EA Update #25 - Patchtastic 4
This smaller-scoped update brings a bunch of smaller additions, changes and fixes. Mostly, I've added or changed various things based on player feedback. The intent for the update was to do tasks that
EA Update #24 - Map Generator 3/3
This the third/last of three update posts about the new level generator. The introduction is at Post #1 and the second partis at Post #2 . At this point we have something resembling a map: It's probab
EA Update #24 - Map Generator 2/3
This the second of three update posts about the new level generator. The introduction is at Post #1 and the third/last part is at Post #3 . I will now go into step-by-step process of the generation pa
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Indie, Strategy, Early Access |
| Player tags | City Builder · Colony Sim · Base-Building · Resource Management · Medieval · Sandbox · Management · Strategy · Economy · Indie · Relaxing · Pixel Graphics (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English |
| Achievements | 7 |
| Official site | http://www.snowyashgames.com/microtown/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS: Windows 10 Processor: SSE2+ support Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: 1280x720+, shader model 4.0+ DirectX: Version 10 Storage: 500 MB available space