Pocket Gamer: As one well-meaning but confused speller points out on the Google Play comments for Townsmen: HandyGames is a developer that's "gone rouge".
No, the team behind Guns 'n' Glory hasn't used too much blusher. Instead, it's invested heavily into the "rogue" practice of freemium-only gaming.
An updated and expanded version of the original, Townsmen - A Kingdom Rebuilt is a simple city builder with a decent scenario and tutorial to ease players in. Those familiar with older various city construction games like SimCity or Age of Empires will feel at home with the process of slowly expanding a city. Using basic ideas like growing food, or providing water to the city, you must take on various small quests to eventually complete the maps.
KeenGamer: "Build your medieval city! Manage your workers, research, and resource production to keep your city thriving. The realistic economy, seasonal systems, and occasional disaster make this a good free game for your mobile device. Wait...this one is for the Switch? And it's $20? Oh...yikes. That's a different story."
TSA writes: "At first glance, Townsmen appears to be a port of a mobile game. The aesthetic certainly feels unmistakably familiar from any number of mobile village building games you find on various app stores. It’s a top down village building game for Switch with pixel art visuals, so perhaps the comparison is easy to invoke, but it thankfully turns out to be a comparison that’s skin deep."
