Gourdlets
Island town-building sandbox for decorating and watching tiny residents
AuntyGames · Published by Future Friends Games, AuntyGames · Released Aug 15, 2024
- Reviews
- Very Positive
- 92% of 2,202
- Recent reviews
- Very Positive
- 80% of 15 in 30 days
- Playing now
- 6
- right now
- Steam Deck
- Playable
- Last update
- 1 year ago
- Jun 16, 2025
What is Gourdlets?
Gourdlets is a town-building sandbox set on an island where small residents arrive by train. You place buildings and decorations, furnish interiors, customize residents, and watch them use the town. There are no required objectives, currency, or fail states; an idle window mode displays the town at the bottom of your screen.
For you if...
- +you like relaxed decorating without managing a city budget
- +you enjoy watching small characters go about their day
Not for you if...
- −you need clear goals or strategic city management
- −you want extensive options for furnishing and decorating
What players say
92% of 2,202 reviews are positive · 80% of 15 in the last 30 days
Players praise the cute art, relaxed pace, and the way residents interact with placed objects. Their most common complaint is that the limited selection of decorations and furniture makes building feel repetitive.
Screenshots and trailer
Gourdlets system requirements
As published by the developer.
Minimum
- OS
- Windows Vista or greater
- Processor
- 2 Ghz
- Graphics
- 256 mb video memory, shader model 3.0+
- Memory
- 2 GB RAM
- Storage
- 500 MB available space
- DirectX
- Version 10
PC version details
DRM, required accounts, controller support and Steam features.
- DRM
- None declared on Steam
- Controller
- Keyboard and mouse
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux
- Achievements
- 10
- Steam features
- Family Sharing
Steam Deck: Playable
- Sometimes shows mouse, keyboard or non-Deck controller icons
- Some text entry requires manually opening the on-screen keyboard
- Some in-game text is small and may be hard to read
- All functionality is accessible with the default controller configuration
- Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck
Multiplayer and co-op
Languages
Text only: English, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America.
Tags
- Sandbox
- City Builder
- Relaxing
- Simulation
- Building
- Cute
- Colorful
- Cozy
- Pixel Graphics
- Open World
- Incremental
- Atmospheric
- Singleplayer
- Procedural Generation
- Casual
- Isometric
Recent updates
- Jun 16, 2025 · [1.0.2g] follow-up to corrupt savefile fix
- Jun 15, 2025 · [1.0.2f] Certain types of corrupt savefiles will now load
- Jun 15, 2025 · [1.0.2e] Ability to delete gourdlets: fixed an edge case bug
- Jun 9, 2025 · [1.0.2d] You can now delete little guys on your island! + visual bugfixes
- Feb 4, 2025 · [1.0.2c]: Fixes to Japanese + Chinese fonts
1 DLC available.
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