TheoTown

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Released: Jun 5, 2019
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Last updated: 14 Sep 2026, 08:29 GMT

Updates & announcements

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16 Jul 2026Developer post
Update 1.12.80
🌟 Add native airplanes as decoration buildings 🔧 Show why buildings cannot be placed 🔧 Track why buildings become abandoned 🔧 Separate dirt roads and dirt tracks 🔧 Refresh the notification bar and improve ad availability 🐞 Fix terrain holes near slopes 🐞 Fix plugin image,
31 Mar 2026Developer post
Update 1.12.65
🔧 Add tool marker legends 🔧 Add multi-level elevated railways 🔧 Show source plugin in selection dialog 🔧 Improve city loading and long-distance travel 🔧 Optimize memory usage 🔧 Update translations 🐞 Fix flickering when zoomed out 🐞 Fix moving buildings breaking influences
11 Jan 2026Developer post
An update on server stability
Hello everyone, The recent surge of players from Indonesia has been incredible to see, but it has pushed our current infrastructure to its absolute limit. To be transparent with you all: our server architecture wasn't built to handle 100 times the usual load. We’ve reached a tech
Hello everyone,
The recent surge of players from Indonesia has been incredible to see, but it has pushed our current infrastructure to its absolute limit.
To be transparent with you all: our server architecture wasn't built to handle 100 times the usual load. We’ve reached a technical ceiling where we can't just add more servers to solve the problem. The current system has hit its limit, and we’ve had to make some tough calls to keep the core services from collapsing entirely.
Our main priority right now is keeping the Plugin Store accessible, as we know how vital it is for your cities. However, to keep it running at all under this pressure, we have had to temporarily disable:
Online Mode
Plugin Store Search (including comment search)
Other non-essential Plugin Store features
We are monitoring the situation closely, but please understand that these features may remain offline or intermittent until the traffic stabilizes. We’re doing what we can within our technical constraints to keep the lights on.
Thank you for your patience and for being part of this wild ride!
Your TheoTown team
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23 Oct 2025Developer post
Transportation Update
Back in 2019, we asked our Discord community what you wanted most. The clear second-place vote after online mode was a transportation overhaul. We’ve been working on it since 2021, and after some time in beta, it’s finally ready for everyone. What's inside: A complete rework of t
Back in 2019, we asked our Discord community what you wanted most. The clear second-place vote after online mode was a transportation overhaul. We’ve been working on it since 2021, and after some time in beta, it’s finally ready for everyone.
What's inside:
A complete rework of the transportation system for buses and trains, plus a brand-new monorail
Refreshed icons
Support for non-square buildings
New music tracks and a soundtrack manager to choose your favorite background music
We wish you lots of fun exploring everything this update has to offer. We could tell you all about it—but it’s much more fun to discover it for yourself along the way!
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05 Apr 2025Developer post
Steam Cloud
Game data will be automatically uploaded to the cloud, allowing you to continue your cities or regions on any device running the Steam version of the game. Please let us know if you experience any issues with it. You can disable Steam Cloud in Steam's properties for TheoTown. Tha
24 Oct 2023Developer post
Biome Update
Hello, TheoTown Community! We're delighted to share that the Biome Update is about to go out of beta into public! Get ready to enrich your city-building experience as you place your cities against a backdrop of diverse environments, from lush forests to arid deserts. And here's t
01 Apr 2023Developer post
TheoTown x anime
Hello everyone, We are very excited to announce a major update to the game that we believe will take it to the next level, literally. After careful consideration and feedback from our players, we have decided to incorporate anime graphics into TheoTown. Starting today, you will s
13 Jul 2022Developer post
TheoTown meets Urbek City Builder
Hello everyone, you are into city building games on PC? TheoTown combines with Urbek City Builder in a bundle that allows you to play these two great games with a 10% discount. Trailers: Urbek City Builder TheoTown Get the bundle here: Urbek City Builder | TheoTown Urbek City Bui
Hello everyone,
you are into city building games on PC? TheoTown combines with Urbek City Builder in a bundle that allows you to play these two great games with a 10% discount.
Trailers:

Urbek City Builder
TheoTown
Get the bundle here: Urbek City Builder | TheoTown
Urbek City Builder is a city building game where you can build your own neighbourhoods: from nightlife district to industrial district. Don't exhaust your natural resources before you have an educated population to build more efficient structures.
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21 Jun 2022Developer post
Release 1.10.57
For Linux and MacOS users: The source of the storage location path was changed from system wide to $HOME environment variable to support embedded environments like e.g. running Steam via snap. If your game data is missing you may have to migrate it to the new location manually. T
08 Feb 2022Developer post
Public release 1.10.44
🌟New smooth zoom option 🌟Adjust how trees are drawn in build tools 🌟Add more frames to various buildings 🌟Option to reset cities in newly generated regions (can be turned off to save storage) 🌟Improve construction sites 🌟Update various translations 🌟Fix tunnel entry drawin
23 Apr 2021Developer post
Release 1.9.93
🌟Fix potential bridge frames related crash 🌟Fix potential crash when executing road decoration actions 📜You can find the full changelog here:
22 Apr 2021Developer post
Release 1.9.91
🌟Hassan II mosque by AdmiralCarl 🌟Fix action place marker drawing 🌟Fix Android Files app access on game files was limited Plugin related: 🌟Add support for car tails that feature 8 frames per variant 🌟Add "exit speed" attribute to road and road decorations 🌟Add fun condition
01 Apr 2021Developer post
Release 1.9.83
📜You can find the full changelog here: Added tile based water animation Added building attribute "draw water ground" to signal game to draw water under the building Added support for custom water (see here) Added "draw water ground" attribute for specifying what type of water to
📜You can find the full changelog here: https://bit.ly/2WAIirB

Added tile based water animation
Added building attribute "draw water ground" to signal game to draw water under the building
Added support for custom water (see here)
Added "draw water ground" attribute for specifying what type of water to draw beneath a building
Added water height smoothing after placing water or land
Added tile based water sparkle
Added Tile.setGroundHeight, Builder.getZonePrice Lua functions
Added draft script load/unload event functions
Added script:exit event function
Added support for custom water border frames using the attribute "water border frames"
Added drafts picked by eye dropper to toolbar history
Added Tile.isCoast function
Added "add prices" support for road decorations
Added support for animations on fences, helicopters and planes
Added non-privileged plugin support for waste and body disposal buildings
Added lights for various buildings made by DESOLAN and Kulche
Added heightmap import functionality
Added more light definitions by DESOLAN
Added support to remove 2nd level ground by placing normal ground
Added font for tagalog language
Fixed diagonal one-way roads had to provide custom dirs array
Fixed an interesting script execution concurrency issue which could cause some strange crashing
Fixed coasts always drew default water under them
Fixed draw water ground attribute lead to slightly blue colored buildings
Fixed out of money preview in tools when using a mouse
Fixed inherited, native drafts were hidden in regions which didn't allow plugins
Fixed not enough money dialog did not show amount on premium versions while using German language
Fixed stage background sometimes did not show the current city
Fixed visual result of "draw water borders":false did not include coast
Fixed optional parameter of City.save() was ignored
Fixed background of removal price dialog showed performed removal
Fixed graphical glitches in list boxes with zebra pattern item backgrounds
Fixed draw building water ground did not work correctly for rotated cities
Fixed dialog animation was shown when switching between influences in tile info dialog
Fixed auto build plugin buildings were still built in cities with not allowed plugins
Fixed pollution color could color bleed into neighboring buildings
Fixed start screen background would change upon rebuilding the window
Fixed water near map edge drawing
Fixed some translation issues
Fixed missing railing issue for roads on slopes
Fixed some grass ground used old, rough coast graphics
Fixed aligned building tool did not build zones
Fixed experimental mode was required to build water on hills
Fixed doubled income didn't show length in feature selector
Fixed gifts and comments sidebar buttons were not hidden in hide ui mode
Fixed hidden upgrades would still add up to total building upgrades
Fixed click sound did not abort when leaving tile dialog via influence view
Fixed "disable plugin" action on plugin error stage did not work on PC
Fixed upgrade drafts could cause Lua crashes when a type was specified
Fixed automatic disasters still occurred in uber mode
Fixed legacy settings file was hidden by default
Fixed remove tool was broken when asking about removal price
Fixed buildings that did not support terrain were drawn with coast and water border at the same time beneath
Changed some Lua function permissions
Updated libraries
Adjusted terrain shading
Water related adjustments
Changed default behavior of water drawing for backwards compatibility with older plugins which rely on drawing water below them
Adjusted ogl2.1 missing error to make clear that there are GPUs that are not capable to run the game
Adjusted Lua Builder library to build zones automatically
Attempt to fix cyclic worker executor is null issue
Attempt to fix a silent game exit by throwing an exception when trying to save city from outside of main thread
Disabled script:event functions when neighboring city connections are applied (caused some issues since City libraries are missing at that point)
Adjust road decoration light switching
Attempt to fix strange lines near gradient frames
Merge sandbox and free mode into one, as they are functionally the same
Adjust max building size limit for all buildings to 16x16
Adjust button behaviour to let buttons loose selection on tap when said tap moves outside of the button
Move City.load and City.execute into TheoTown module
Ensure that car paths are validated in regard to road flags before re-using them
Updated translations
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31 Mar 2021Developer post
Release 1.9.83
🌟Open heightmap function in create city/region screen 🌟Add more lights by DESOLAN 🌟Add new folder option in file manager 🌟Add support to import multiple files at once in file manager 🌟Apply Android flag to show option to retain data upon uninstall 🌟Rename .settings.json int
31 Mar 2021Developer post
Release 1.9.83
🌟Open heightmap function in create city/region screen 🌟Add more lights by DESOLAN 🌟Add new folder option in file manager 🌟Add support to import multiple files at once in file manager 🌟Apply Android flag to show option to retain data upon uninstall 🌟Rename .settings.json int
29 Mar 2021Developer post
Release 1.9.82
🌟Automatic file migration to Scoped Storage on Android 10 (Q) and newer 🌟Add more light definitions by Kulche and DESOLAN 🌟Allow to build water on hills by default 🌟Fix coast graphics 🌟Fix sound issue in tile dialog Plugin related 🌟Add support for animations on fences and f
29 Mar 2021Developer post
Release 1.9.82
🌟Add more light definitions by Kulche and DESOLAN 🌟Allow to build water on hills by default 🌟Fix coast graphics 🌟Fix sound issue in tile dialog Plugin related 🌟Add support for animations on fences and flying objects 🌟Add TheoTown.loadCity() and TheoTown.execute() Lua functi
15 Mar 2021Developer post
Release 1.9.81
Basically another update for bug fixing🦗 🛠Fix auto build of plugin buildings when unloaded 🛠Fix building coloring issue 🛠Fix road and road decoration light switching times 🛠Fix water near map edge drawing 📜You can find the full changelog here:
15 Mar 2021Developer post
Release 1.9.81
Basically another update for bug fixing🦗 🛠Fix auto build of plugin buildings when unloaded 🛠Fix building coloring issue 🛠Fix road and road decoration light switching times 🛠Fix water near map edge drawing 📜You can find the full changelog here:
12 Mar 2021Developer post
Release 1.9.80
💠Add support for custom water border frames 📘Add load/unload/exit script event functions 📘Add Tile.isCoast function 🛠Fix remove tool behavior 🛠Fix drawing of buildings near coast 📜You can find the full changelog here: