Urbanity

It's now your turn to build a city. Start from zero, grow your city a global financial centre, or a seaside resort, or a manufacturing powerhouse. It's your choice.

Urbanity is a city building game designed around a satisfaction system. Each residential, commercial, office, farm, and industrial building receives satisfaction points from positive interactions with other, usually adjacent, buildings. High satisfaction ratings give bonus income and is required to unlock many late-game buildings. It is your task to figure out how to best plan your city so you can maximize the synergy between buildings and make sure all your citizens and businesses are satisfied.

Urbanity is the plush girls' entry to Autumn Lisp Game Jam 2025. It is written in Fennel for the TIC-80 fantasy computer.

If you find Urbanity enjoyable, consider also giving the plush girls previous city building game, PicoMayor, and their earlier maritime trade simulation game, Mare Mercatus, a try.

Controls

Urbanity requires a mouse or touch screen. Left click to perform an action, and Right click (or click on the X button on the top left corner) to cancel the current action.

Tips

• Remember to save your game! All unsaved progress will be lost once you close or restart the game.
• It is generally a good idea to give each building multiple sources of satisfaction. A residential building, for example, can only gain so much satisfaction from access to shops.
• Businesses receive a revenue bonus when their satisfaction is above 50%. Some businesses that are always satisfied on their own (such as farms) are exempt from this rule.
• Keep your job and population numbers roughly balanced. If you have too many unfilled jobs, you will receive a penalty for labour shortage which reduces your revenue.
• Unemployment does not carry any penalty, but you will have a hard time affording public services if unemployment is too high.
• While there are some buildings with powerful city-wide effects, most buildings only affect the eight tiles adjacent to them.
• It can be helpful to look up the unlock conditions of certain key buildings and deliberately work your way towards them.