Indie publisher Alawar and developer Yustas have announced Technotopia, a city-building card game, coming to Steam PC on October 23.
Technotopia is a city builder that put all the building, maintaining, and expanding of the city of tomorrow into an all-powerful AI — that’s you.
By using a unique deck of cards, players will zone residential areas, construct skyskcrapers, and expand transportation routes.
The real challenge comes from balancing the needs and demands of four powerful, and often opposing, factions: capitalists, aristocrats, politicians, and the common folk. And like most city builders, players must also respond to natural disasters, crime, and other urban issues that plague a burgeoning metropolis.
I’m not entirely sure how the card-based gameplay works with the city building, and the trailer doesn’t make it very clear. Are we building our deck as we expand the city? Do we reshuffle when cards are spent, or adapt to new strategies? Is it turn-based or real-time? I have questions!
I’m digging the visual style, through, very art deco and abstract, and the grid-based city looks very board game-y, in a good way.
Technotopia will launch on October 23, and is refreshingly skipping Steam Early Access (from what I can tell).
