Hello Mayors!
With the Steam Summer Sale kicking off (and Go-Go Town! at our deepest discount yet!: 25% off!) we wanted to talk a bit about our upcoming Major Update, Tourist Trap. It’s coming out July 15th / 16th (depending on where you are in the world!)
But first! We’re so excited that we’ve got a great bundle with our friends at OddSparks and Little Big Workshop! You can nab all three games in a bundle, or fill out your building & automation portfolio if you’ve already got a copy of Go-Go Town!
We've got two main pillars of Tourist Trap, a huge overhaul to how tourists operate, and new industry features (more things to build, more complicated recipes), so let's dive in!
Tourist Updates 🎟️🏋🏼🛀🏾🔭 Tourists have always been opinionated, but now they're even moreso! Each type of tourists has their own preferences, desires, and traits, which influences how they rate your town. There are six desires: Entertainment, Rest, Hunger, Health, Exploration, and Shopping, and items will show you which category they are. Make sure to include a range of interests as you build up your town!
Food & Shopping Star Ratings ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Recipes for food and shopping now have star ratings, and your tourists will seek out things to eat and buy at different levels. Got too many 1 star food options? Your posh tourists will turn down their noses. But if you only have 3 star options, you'll annoy tourists with 1 and 2 star tastes—adjust accordingly!
Tourist Thought Bubbles 💬 You'll see little dialogue options pop up when they're pleased, angry, or looking for something your town doesn't have. This is all tracked in the Tourist Tracker, and don't worry—you can turn it off if it's too much!
New Tourist Types 🧑🏽🌾 Worried about how all the picky tourists will influence your early gameplay? Don't worry! We've added a new type, Easy-Goers, that are pretty easy to please, and they'll show up when you build a new town. You'll be able to recognize them from their snazzy straw hats! PLUS we'll now officially have tourists like Dinosaurs, Robots, and Clowns to the tourist pool—but they've got a special way to arrive...
Transit Terminals 🌋🌕🎪 Want those exotic tourist types in your town? (That is: Mummies, Werewolves, Aliens, Robots, Dinosaurs, Ghosts and Clowns) Each of these will now come to your town from a specific spawner. Build it, and you'll have your town flooding with that tourist. Don't ever want Clowns? You can always build their spawner and just never turn it on!
New Townies 🐺👽🦖 And of course, we always need new Townies to put to work be valued members of our community. There will be 7 new townies, one each for the exotic tourist types, and they'll help you invite more of their kind into your town with that recipe for their specific Transit Terminal.
Major Landmarks 🏟️♨️ We've added four new BIG buildings you can build to support tourism in your town. Build the Lighthouse, Conservatory, Hot Springs, and Stadium to boost your tourists' desire for exploration, rest, health, and entertainment. These take up a lot of room and even more complicated materials, so start carving out space!
Tier 3 Industry 🏭 If you want to build those Major Landmarks, you're going to have to build a Factory first. This will help you create new Tier 3 items: the expandable Rod, Encabulator Cube, Reinforced Brackets, and Structural Plating, all of which will be used in large-scale building. To make them, you'll need a lot of Tier 2 materials, so it'll put your supply chain to the test!
Yum Grease! 🛢️ Want to get things moving in your factory? Maybe a way to... grease the wheels? Put your Deep Sea Cutlets in the Fish thing, and you'll make YUM GREASE™️. We've also added three new recipes to shops, so you'll be able to make Lava Lamps, Dirty Mags, and Seafood Sticks. Yum!
Cliff Terraforming is here! ⛰️ Need more room for those major landmarks? TEAR DOWN THE CLIFFS! Once you've [ REDACTED ], you'll be able to build and destroy cliffs to your heart's content across the main map!
There's also a ton of QOL updates, and even some sneaky things we haven't even released to our Preview Branch yet! If you want to check it out now, you can opt in to our Preview Branch via the instructions below, which is where we test things out before they go live. Your save file will be safe, don’t worry!
Stay tuned on our social media for more deep dives about things in Tourist Trap, and we can’t wait to hear what you think of it!
Cheers,
Emily and the Go-Go Town! team