
10 Year City
Welcome to 10 Year City!
10 Year City is an isometric, tile-based roguelite city-building puzzle game where every placement matters. Plan carefully, chain adjacency bonuses, and grow your city across 10 challenging years.
Demo features:
Shop
Draft buildings each year from the shop selection. Need a better fit? Reroll the shop for a fee and adapt your strategy.
Building
Place your buildings strategically to trigger adjacency bonuses and maximize each stat gain.
There are six building types: Residential, Recreational, Educational, Civic, Industrial and Commercial, each with corresponding stats to attract new citizens
Turn-Based Gameplay
In 10 Year City, each turn represents a year of growth. Meet target thresholds to attract new citizens, but be sure you have enough housing to accommodate the rising population!
Inventory
Save building blueprints to your inventory and deploy them in later years when the timing is right.
Merge
Build specific buildings adjacent to each other to merge into unique buildings that give your city additional special bonuses.
Upgrades
Choose a building to upgrade at the end of each level, adding new abilities or bonuses for your current run.
Legacies
Unlock legacies to permanently gain new features for all future runs.
Maps
5 Procedurally generated maps with always new layouts and challenges, each offering unique opportunities and constraints.
Full game features:
- Procedurally generated maps with unique goals and increasing difficulty
- Puzzle-style, tile-based city-building gameplay
- Retro-inspired pixel art with over 40 charming isometric buildings
- Over 10 Unique buildings that change gameplay
- 6 Building types
- Procedurally generated maps for endless custom challenges
- 36 Legacies to unlock different permanent features for future runs
How to Play:
- Each turn, you can buy new Blueprints from the Shop.
- Use your Blueprints Inventory to place buildings on the map.
- Buildings must be connected to each other.
- You can destroy buildings by selecting the "Destroy" button to get the blueprint back. Building placed on the current turn can be destroyed for free.
- Reach different stat thresholds to increase population.
- Make sure you have enough housing for incoming population.
- Click the "Next Turn" button to advance to the next turn and refresh the shop.
- Some buildings can merge into unique buildings at the end of the turn if the required buildings are within their areas.
- Choose upgrades for random building at the end of each level
Controls:
- Mouse-Left Click - Select/Place
- Mouse-Right Click - Cancel build
- R/MouseMiddle-click - Rotate building
Music:
"Abstraction" https://tallbeard.itch.io/music-loop-bundl
Please feel free to leave any kind of feedback, suggestions, and ideas on the itch.io board.
If you like this game and want to help with development or just chat with fellow players, join the 10 Year City Discord Server!
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| Updated | 18 days ago |
| Status | In development |
| Platforms | HTML5 |
| Rating | Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars (4 total ratings) |
| Author | MadTricks |
| Genre | Puzzle, Strategy |
| Made with | Aseprite, Godot |
| Tags | Casual, City Builder, Cozy, drafting, Isometric, Pixel Art, Roguelike, Turn-based |
| Average session | About a half-hour |
Download
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Development log
- Devlog 12 - Tutorial reworked18 days ago
- Devlog 11 - Demo release: Hotfixes37 days ago
- Devlog 10 - Demo release: Looking for playtesters!42 days ago
- Devlog 9 - LEGACIES66 days ago
- Devlog 8 - New GAMEMODE97 days ago
- Devlog 6 - 10 Year City on Steam page announcementSep 04, 2025
- Devlog 6 - New UI and visual updatesAug 28, 2025
- Devlog 5 - Building mechanic & UI updatesMay 23, 2025




