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A town sim where you raise generations of residents. Unlock new stores and facilities, help your residents find love, or cash in on the stock market!
Dream Town Island is a simulation, strategy and casual game
developed and published by Kairosoft Co. and Ltd.
Released on November 12th 2023 is available only on Windows
in 13 languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Thai, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian and Hindi.
It has received 330 reviews of which 321 were positive and 9 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.9 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 13.49€ on Steam.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 64bit
- Processor: Intel Atom® x7-Z8750
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
- DirectX: Version 10
- Storage: 250 MB available space
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The absolute peak of the Kairosoft formula and the ultimate city-building time sink. If you’ve played a Kairosoft game before, you know the drill, but Dream Town Island feels like the definitive "Greatest Hits" collection of their entire catalog. It takes the life-sim elements of World Cruise Story, the town management of Venture Towns, and the relationship building of Dream House Days, then cranks them all up to eleven. You aren't just placing buildings; you are sculpting a living, breathing ecosystem where your residents grow up, get jobs, fall in love, and start families. Watching a baby born in your town eventually grow into a world-famous professional while living in a mansion you built is a strangely emotional and deeply rewarding experience that makes this feel much more personal than a standard city builder. The sheer volume of content and customization here is staggering. The "Combo" system—where placing specific buildings near each other unlocks massive bonuses—returns with more depth than ever, forcing you to think like an actual urban planner. The "Trophy" and challenge system provides a constant stream of short-term goals that trigger that dangerous "just one more in-game month" mentality. You’ll sit down to quickly fix a traffic issue, and suddenly three hours have vanished because you got distracted trying to help a local resident win a dance competition or upgrading your boutique to attract a new celebrity guest. It is arguably the most polished and expansive game the studio has ever released. What makes Dream Town Island truly special is how it manages to feel massive without ever becoming overwhelming. Even as your tiny village turns into a sprawling metropolis with skyscrapers and subways, the interface remains clean and the vibes stay impeccably chill. It is the perfect game to have running while you’re watching a show or hanging out, but it has enough "under the hood" complexity with its land prices and resident stats to keep you engaged if you want to min-max your city’s efficiency. It’s charming, it’s hilarious, and it’s a brilliant evolution of a classic formula that will keep you coming back for "one more save" for a very long time. 10/10 — I came for the cute pixel art, but I stayed for the complex socioeconomic management of my digital citizens.
A huge chunk of Kairosoft games can be played on Android with Google Play Pass for you to try out before you commit to buying it. I've played and beat quite a few of them and Dream Town Island remains my favorite! I've sunk dozens of hours into it on my tablet. I bought it again for Steam because of Steam Deck/controller support. (The mobile versions don't have controller support for some reason.) There is so much to optimize in the game and so many checklists. If you enjoy the idea of a cute, casual city builder with active citizens you can watch and 10+ hours worth of progression, then this is the game for you. A top tier city builder with these core features that I find remarkable: - Quirky residents that will drive around in the vehicles they buy, adopt a variety of pets to keep at home, and that you can pair together. They develop hobbies based on the job you give them and can enter stat-check contests for their respective hobbies for rewards. - You can modify the elevation of the map in a pretty cool way that I can only compare to Elin. You can lower your elevation all the way down to 0 to make water tiles and form rivers. - Unlike most other Kairosoft games, you can move buildings around for free! Which is important for all of the following below... - Buildings have Combos when placed near synergistic buildings. For example, putting a Sauna, Spa, and Spa Hotel triggers a bonus in all of these buildings and count as a "Hot Springs" combo. - Buildings have a checklist of (technically optional) bonuses that they want fulfilled, such as being near a certain decoration. - Buildings retain bonuses, including Combo activations, of others of the same building. So if you finish one of the checklist items for one Museum, it will then carry over to all Museum buildings on the map and that you will build in the future. Some tips I figured out that might help someone out: -Many buildings require being near 5 decorations or 5 plants. Because buildings retain bonuses once they are triggered, you can just set up a corner of your map with 5 plants/decorations placed around. Then just place any building you want to trigger that bonus with there, and once you check it off the list, you can move that building to where you actually want it to go. - The above can be useful for houses as well. A houses comfort level matters and higher rank citizens will only move into houses high comfort. You can set up an Empty Lot in a spot with high comfort, have someone move into the house, and then move the house to wherever you want. Place a new Empty Lot in the old spot. Rinse, repeat. I had a lot of trouble getting people to move in until I started doing this. - Use "Air Purifier" items as soon as you get them. They increase the comfort level for ALL homes. (I thought for a long time it only increased base comfort for the house I used it on.) - Buildings level up with use, but hit a ceiling for their rank. F buildings can only get to level 5. Use Rank Up items on buildings that are maxxed out in order to level up those buildings more. - Once you reach Year 15, the game "ends" in these sense you get an official high score but you can keep playing your town. Make sure you use up all your Rank Up items on buildings before this point. You unlock New Game+ mode, which you can start on a different save if you don't want to overwrite your first town. In NG+, you start with some money from your last playthrough and you also get to keep all of your buildings rank/level.
This is my first Kairosoft game and I have to say it is right down my alley. It is what it says on the tin, you raise generations of residents while building up your town. You give each and every one of them a name, watch them as they grow up, go to college, come back to get married and live their life happily ever after. When their time comes, they pack up their stuff and leave your town with a happiness score for a life they had. My first impression as I was getting bombarded with popups was that this game is a bit too much, but as you pick up the pace, that feeling soon fades away. There's a lot of leveling up, unlocks and idler-like mechanics, except there's not a point at which you won't have anything to do. You can get quite creative and strategic with planning out your town. There's combos you can get with placements of your buildings, you can add decorations to boost value, even different roads give different boosts. Some may say that the downside is the clunky UI which is honestly not that bad when you come to understand that it was made for touchscreen and get used to it. The real downside is that you won't be able to put this game down. That's what happened with 20 hours of my past weekend anyway. Shame because I had things I planned to do, yet there I was playing Dream Town Island like a mentalist. And I do feel mental for saying this, but I think that Dream Town Island is genuinely good.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Dream Town Island is currently priced at 13.49€ on Steam.
No, Dream Town Island is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 13.49€ on Steam.
Yes, Dream Town Island received 321 positive votes out of a total of 330 achieving a rating of 8.90.
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Dream Town Island was developed and published by Kairosoft Co. and Ltd.
Yes, Dream Town Island is playable and fully supported on Windows.
No, Dream Town Island is not playable on MacOS.
No, Dream Town Island is not playable on Linux.
Dream Town Island is a single-player game.
No, Dream Town Island does not currently offer any DLC.
No, Dream Town Island does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
No, Dream Town Island does not support Steam Remote Play.
Yes, Dream Town Island is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for Dream Town Island.
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Developer
Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Publisher
Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Release
12 Nov 2023
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