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Tile Lands

Tile Lands is a minimalist, City Building strategy game about managing and optimising buildings using a limited deck of tiles.

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November 1, 2023
2 years and 275 days ago
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Positive28 reviews85.7%

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About the Game

Tile Lands is a minimalist, City Building strategy game about managing and optimising buildings using a limited deck of tiles. Enjoy Tile Lands as a peaceful escape to your own minimalist town, enjoying the tranquility of organising neat districts and maintaining optimal building distribution. For those wishing to embrace the challenge, Tile Lands provides a focus on hitting high scores - pay attention to the requirements of your buildings and place tiles strategically to best optimise your town.

GAMEPLAY

In Tile Lands, you play tiles onto a finite grid of spaces from your procedurally generated deck. Tiles can be placed onto the grid either adjacent to a tile already on the grid, or as a replacement for a tile already on the grid. Placing a tile onto another tile of the same type will clear that space. Placing tiles will score points depending on how well you satisfy the conditions of that tile. Once you gather enough points, you'll be given a choice of Tile Packs to add new tiles to your deck - the game is over when you run out of tiles.

FEATURES

What Tile Lands Offers:
  • Relaxing, atmospheric gameplay
  • The feel of classic tile laying board games like Carcassonne
  • A highly replayable, arcade like experience
  • A satisfying balance between strategy and puzzle mechanics

What Tile Lands Doesn't Offer:
  • Intense medieval combat
  • Resource management
  • Pre-written storyline or cinematics
  • Online multiplayer

THE TEAM AND A THANK YOU

Tile Lands was developed by Shiba Dog Studios - a two person indie studio in the UK comprising a Game Designer/Programmer and a Graphic Artist. We worked in collaboration with a second Programmer and a Sound Designer to bring together this peaceful little toy. We'd like to thank you for taking the time to look at our game - please don't hesitate to reach out to us if you have any questions, feedback, issues or even just to say hi! Our inbox is always open :)