One of the best city builders of last year is coming to Oculus Quest 2

Hands-on construction

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Gentle city builder Townscaper is coming toOculusQuest 2 later this year in a fresh VR port.

Townscaper received a warm reception when it was released on PC in 2021, and we reckon it’s one of thebest Android gamescurrently around. But the indie gem is about to get a whole lot more immersive, it’s coming toOculus Quest 2and Pico headsets on October 6.

The port will directly translate Townscaper to the VR systems. No more mouse clicking or screen tapping, you’ll be stretching out toy-like buildings, extending roads, and painting cities using your hands.

Watch the announcement trailer below.

Toyscaper

Not so much a game as it is a creative sandbox, Townscaper lets you construct quaint city dioramas. Every building you place will automatically merge and adapt with those around it, as stairs, courtyards, and roads organically spring up in reaction to the architectural developments of your city.

It’s all very placid. With no objectives to complete, citizen requests to fulfill, or traffic to manage, Townscaper is a city builder in the most literal sense. It’s fairly intuitive, too. You can whip up a small floating hamlet in a matter of seconds or spend hours poring over a flying metropolis, carefully tinkering every steeple and alleyway to make it just so.

Developer Oskar Stålberg teased the port back in March this year, sharing a clip of an early VR build onTwitter. In the accompanying thread, Stålberg outlined some of the difficulties he was facing in bringing the strategy game to VR systems while making it feel tactile and instinctive.

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Looking at basic VR design. Current idea is to use a point on a stick for interaction (rather than a raycast) so that you can build in the air. Those points also serve as grabbig points for grab-navigation. Feels tactile. pic.twitter.com/QvqoJzkn9yMarch 3, 2022

Townscaper will make a change from the otherbest VR gamescurrently out there. But if you’re thinking of moving into VR, you might want to wait. There’s never been a worsetime to buy an Oculus Quest 2.

Callum is TechRadar Gaming’s News Writer. You’ll find him whipping up stories about all the latest happenings in the gaming world, as well as penning the odd feature and review. Before coming to TechRadar, he wrote freelance for various sites, including Clash, The Telegraph, and Gamesindustry.biz, and worked as a Staff Writer at Wargamer. Strategy games and RPGs are his bread and butter, but he’ll eat anything that spins a captivating narrative. He also loves tabletop games, and will happily chew your ear off about TTRPGs and board games.

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