Gourdlets is a city-building sandbox game without objectives or points where you can grow and decorate a town to your heart’s content.
Since you don’t have any specific goals in the game, you are free to grow your town, creating beautiful beaches or vast villages or flower gardens that your cute little villagers then enjoy. These different worlds don’t feel like they need a goal, and the way that everything slots together feels fun to build and enjoy. Also, seeing the silly villagers moving around was what initially caught my interest. They will interact with your various buildings, sing, play in the rain, and check out gardens. None of them need you to interrupt them to do something. They’ll just enjoy whatever you put in their world.
It’s a relaxing game, where you can just build things and watch the way these creatures make your world their home. I really love the general vibe of the visuals in the game and found that the day and night cycle, as well as the movement in the world, really brings your creation to life. There is something lovely and relaxing about building this world for these grateful little creatures that don’t even want anything from you. Instead, they just enjoy their time in your world and with whatever you happen to think looks cool enough to place down.
I got the chance to play some of Gourdlets at the Spring Mix Showcase where I got to build onto a world someone else had started. Taking on this little environment and making it my own instead of starting from scratch was a wonderful experience in itself, especially as I dipped back later that night to see what had happened to our world.
Gourdlets is currently in development, but in the meantime, you can add it to your Steam Wishlist.
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