Go-Go Town!

I dont ever leave reviews. I loved many games in this lifetime and never leave reviews because I feel that its too subjective to put into words. But this game is one of the very few I will be leaving a review for. My daughters are 6 and 7 years old. 5 and 6 when they first started this. It is to date their favourite game. If you want a massive story and AAA stuff you have other options (CP77 looking at ya) but if you want a very entertaining coop experience with friends or kids, this is the one. It isnt as intense as overcooked. It is relaxing and cute and it makes you want to improve your town. There is much freedom to build and the split screen gives everyone freedom to do whatever they prefer to focus on. during our play, I will say I NEED PAPER SO I NEED WOOD one daughter will leave the fishery to go chop wood and another will leave her restocking of stones to bring the wood to the paper maker thingy. I am in charge of most major planning like where to place things. they will bring the resources required to build. There is literally a role for everyone but highly recommend a adult around to strategise the placements and do the more complex stuff. Had a blast. Will come back to this during school holidays again. I have alot of kids games involving ducks and goose etc but this is the best.

Great game for parent-kid gaming! Kids do the mining, fishing, foraging, decorating, and manning of shops. Adults can focus on town planning, automation, and long-term goals. This is an absolute delight to play.

I enjoyed this game a lot. But if you have too much waste, without warning, birds spawn. They are ruining everything and are annoying to get rid of. You can't focus on fixing the litter problem really either because they spawn every few seconds. It so random, in an otherwise lovely game. I hated it so much, I sadly don't want to play anymore.

My town is disgusting and a cluttered mess, but I'm having a great time. This game is a little Two Point, a little Cult of the Lamb, and a little Animal Crossing. It's cozy and cute and has just enough grind to lock in and easily lose track of a few hours. The game also includes exploration and manual resource gathering, which is a nice change from other management games I've played. Oh, and so many vehicle options! My front yard is cluttered with them and I'm not ashamed. Anyway, I've been playing exclusively with my Steam Controller (witness me!) and I haven't had any issues, even though the game says it only has partial controller support. Since EA saves won't be playable after 1.0 comes out later this month, I think I'll stop where I am right now so I can build an actual nice town once the game is officially released. FUPAVILLE WILL FLOURISH.

i love go go town it makes me want to go go live my life and not go go kill myself!

In theory this is exactly the type of games I love. But after a few hours I see quite a few issues. 1) automation comes late and is not clear Firstly as far as I can see you only get shop automation initially. At town level 1 you get forester and miner automation. it may be due to me not understanding the locking tutorial, but I am unsure how to tell my forester that no i don't need fluff, I need field mushroom. But basically the automation at that point is neither easy, nor is there much of it. 2) waaaaay too much garbage If you were getting cleanup automation i would not care that much but there isn't a cleaning automation early. So I am spending half my time running garbage. In a few days I went 6 to 8 times doing garbage run. That's more than 100 garbage items. and I had to manually clean everything. 3) item moving and storage is not fun. You barely have 16 items you can carry and chosing which you have to move lacks QOL. Worst: some item you can only transport 1 or 2 (e.g. field mushroom) so without transport and gathering autoamtion you keep running back and forth to fill your tricket shop. IMO 3 things needs to be reworked- at minimum: * QOL on transporting stuff. Don't arbitrarily limit item transport size. e.g. field mushroom * early cleaning automation should be allowed, even at town level 1

Note: Overall, I do think this is a good game for the price, and the developers seem very active and open to feedback. A lot of my criticism may be fixed over time or even in just a week. * The music and art style are very charming. The controls feel good, moving around is smooth, and the game never really feels janky. I did accidentally build a shop on top of myself once, but it was easy to delete, so that was mostly my own fault but that was my only big issue that happen once and a single NPC that started to "moon dance". * The logistics are simple, but they work well enough for this kind of laid-back town builder. The automation does its job without becoming a burden, and the town usually runs without any obvious supply-chain problems. I want to give the game real praise for this, because a lot of games that are not specifically focused on logistics still manage to make them frustrating. In this game, I did not run into any major supply-chain issues or obvious pain points, so if you not "into that", it is very easy and automated. I say this as someone who enjoy both deeper logistic games like factory games to simple "just get it done automation". * The shops look great too. You can actually see the goods on display, and it is easy to tell whether something is in stock. * There are also a lot of useful quality-of-life features. Both you and the NPCs can use the transit system to move around the map. Couriers drive around town, and getting goods from one place to another works better than I expected, especially considering you will usually only have one or two couriers. * Exploration is fun at first. You find different vehicles, and some of them can do tricks, although I wish they were a bit more unique. * There are collectibles, lots of clothing options for both you and the NPCs, and you can design your own horrible "mascot abomination" that looks very goofy at town level 5, which is probably one of the surprising features in the game. Sadly, this is also where the game starts to fall off. I am writing this review while standing around in-game, waiting for milestones to fill up and for the town to upgrade. That is pretty much the main problem. * "Ego system" is the resource you use to unlock buildings, and it comes from tourists. The system feels very feast or famine. Sometimes you have so much Ego that you do not need to think about it, but once you start building, it disappears quickly. Then you just have to stop and wait for more. A big issue for me is that it have this inbuilt "punishment" for building the same building over and over for some reason that makes sense on preventing spam of the same "best vanity" items so your town is not 2000 poted plants, but building apartments get expensive to the point I can only build 2 every few min and than I have to wait. A big issue here is the gold /ego system cap and scaling of cost. I think the idea is that you are supposed to explore while waiting, but the exploration is very short. You can clear most of the map in around an hour, apart from the locked door and some clues that do not feel very useful, I had done all exploration before town level 4. Town ranks 1 to 5 feels much better, because you keep unlocking new things. Ranks 6-10 feel more like padding. You are not really introduced to anything new. You mostly place more shops and wait for bigger numbers to fill up. Unless you really enjoy collecting things, there is not much left to do. The collectables are also not interesting or rewarding enough for me to care about them. I am waiting for shops to sell enough items, for tourists to leave happy, for Ego, for the next milestone, and for the next town upgrade. And there is nothing I can really do to impact it, except shoot bubbles at people. The town mostly runs itself, which is normally a good thing, but it also means there is not much left for me to actively do. I still think "Go-Go Town!" is a good game. It is charming, polished, and fun for the first several hours. For the price, I think it offers a good experience, and the developers seem active enough that some of these problems may improve. I play games pretty fast due to years of experience in the genre, so a more casual player probably gets a weekend or a week's worth of experience.

I played for 5 hours. When I opened the game again, all my save files were gone.

Несмотря на то что массово люди писали разработчикам, они так и не добавили русскую локализацию.

I heavily recommend this game. I played roughly a 100+ hours in Early Access, and felt like the Developers were super communicative of save files in Early Access not being compatible with 1.0's release because of all the new features they were adding. And they did - they added a TON of new features and made the game so much better. It was definitely worth starting over because of this. I just wanted to address this early on because I've noticed a surge of 1 star reviews addressing the Save File issue, and even with the Developer posting a resolution, it absolutely tanked their scores when unfortunately that's the risk of playing an Early Access game. With that out of the way, I want to actually provide a review on the actual game. This game isn't Animal Crossing, HOWEVER, if Animal Crossing: New Horizons left you feeling a certain type of way due to the lack of depth and content, this will scratch your itch. As a long time cozy gamer, I definitely have felt overwhelmed with the Cozy Slop rush of devs wanting to make a quick buck on the genre. That being said, this game is not one of those. It's fun, it's and seeing the amount of content the Devs have added to this game makes me so excited to play it. You're basically running a town, and while they have added more ways to be apart of the town, like adding in a home or letting you work the stalls and businesses, it's definitely not that type of simulator game. It's more of a building-type game with goals and objectives. You have to work to unlock different things to build your town up, which adds to the addictiveness/pacing of the game. When Devs add features in, I rarely run into bugs. It overall feels more refined. Anyways, here's to a hundred more hours!