Gablewend: Small City Builder

A small city builder: lay roads, zone homes, workshops and markets, keep water, work, goods and happiness in balance and grow your town to 1000 citizens without going bankrupt. Guided start and overlays, eight town goals and five timed scenarios with star ratings. Free, no ads, no tracking; best with a mouse or keyboard.

Gablewend is a small city builder about keeping a young town's needs in balance. Lay roads from the highway, zone homes, workshops and markets, and watch gabled cottages grow into houses and townhouse rows when life there is good.

Citizens need water, work, goods and happiness, and the treasury needs taxes. Reach 1000 citizens to win; let the treasury sit below zero for three months and the town goes bankrupt.

• Zones that grow: homes, workshops and markets develop on their own when their needs are met, and decline when they are not
• Five scenarios against the clock: Shoestring, Craft town, Happy valley, Townhouse row and Boomtown, each with its own goal, time limit and one to three stars
• Town goals: eight milestones, from 50 citizens to a townhouse and a full treasury, each paying into the treasury
• Four needs: wells for water, workshop jobs for work, markets that sell workshop goods, and parks, a school and low noise for happiness
• Land value: parks, schools and markets raise it and workshop noise lowers it; only the best streets become townhouses
• Monthly budget: tax income against upkeep for roads, wells, parks and schools, with a tax rate you set
• Overlays and advice: water, happiness and land value maps, demand bars and an advice line that names the town's biggest problem
• Guided start: seven short steps teach roads, homes, water, work, goods, parks and schools
• Mouse, touch or keyboard: drag to paint roads and zones, or steer a cursor and hold Space

Code and text written with AI assistance; checked by PN Scripts with automated tests. Every shape is drawn and every sound synthesised by code; there are no AI-generated image or audio files.

Controls

• Tap or drag on the map: build with the chosen tool (drag paints roads and zones)
• Arrow keys / WASD: move the cursor · Space: build, hold and move to paint
• 1-8: road, homes, workshop, market, well, school, park, bulldoze
• 9 / 0 / V: water, happiness and land value overlays
• [ and ]: lower or raise the tax rate
• P / Esc: pause, M: sound

Made by PN Scripts.