Can you bring the homeowner's dream of suburban paradise?
Suburbs emerged from expansions in road networks, enabling family sized housing, and living away from urban centres. The suburbs expand by colonising previous living space, transformed from older communities in a process called gentrification.
Subtopia, is a tile placement game, where you play as competitive town developers that dream of creating a suburban paradise by connecting road networks designed in aperiodic patterns.
Players flip, rotate and move double sided hand-drawn tiles, one with rural living space, and the other side with cookie-cutter homogenous suburbia. The flipping of a tile gentrifies the land from old living space to new suburban living space. Add new tiles onto the board by connecting the divided tiles together through their shared road networks, and create open lanes for exploration.
Your goal is to score the highest at the end. Win by spending your coins, buying out tiles, so you can connect groups of tiles together into suburban Zones, which grants you permission to build your commercial facilities. Turn the suburbs you own into hilariously giant carparks and shopping malls.
Road networks are vital for building communities and spreading the suburbs, but in Subtopia, a competitive land of individual success, players have to find their own advantages with suburbs made of tile pieces. Building a homogenous suburban paradise is impossible, just as you will realise the difficulty fitting the tiles together perfectly during gameplay. In this interconnected world, what really makes the dream work?
Simulate realistic suburban reproduction and expansion.
