River Towns

River Towns

Frogsong Studios · March 24, 2025 · Puzzle, City Builder, Board Game, Strategy, Logic

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River Towns price by region

River Towns costs $5.51 in Georgia (USD), £8.31 in the United Kingdom, €9.61 in Europe (EUR), $9.74 in the United States, CA$12.66 in Canada, A$14.26 in Australia, NZ$14.29 in New Zealand, R$30.54 in Brazil and zł44.19 in Poland right now.

Cheapest River Towns offer in each region, in local currency
RegionBest priceOfficial storeKey shopStores
Georgia (USD) $5.51 −35% $5.51 — 1
United Kingdom £8.31 −35% £8.31 — 1
Europe (EUR) €9.61 −35% €9.61 — 1
United Statesyour region $9.74 −35% $9.74 — 1
Canada CA$12.66 −35% CA$12.66 — 1
Australia A$14.26 −35% A$14.26 — 1
New Zealand NZ$14.29 −35% NZ$14.29 — 1
Brazil R$30.54 −35% R$30.54 — 1
Poland zł44.19 zł44.19 — 1

Each row is a real price from that region's own stores, not a currency conversion, so the figures are not directly comparable. Switch regions in the header to shop the one you buy in.

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About River Towns

✦ AI summary

River Towns is a puzzle game where you strategically place differently shaped buildings into limited spaces to construct vibrant river towns and restore a broken world. Each level features unique district layouts, varied objectives like collecting gold and regrowing trees, and competitive scoring that unlocks new worlds and rewards your best placements.

In River Towns, you place differently shaped buildings and make them fit into a limited area. Combine unique districts into a vibrant living city and help restore our River Towns. 

Puzzle a River Town

Each of the three districts has its own set of shapes which are shuffled randomly. This makes every game you play a new and unique puzzle to solve. The different district's unique and vibrant architecture combines into beautiful little towns along the river. As the town grows, more townspeople move in and bring life back into this old and broken world.

Earn Points

Buildings also belong to differently colored districts which score bonus points when connected into large clusters. Getting a good score on each level awards stars, which restores the world and also unlocks more levels.

Each Level is Different

The beginning of each town starts with you restoring this part of the dried up river and surrounding it with buildings. Throughout the game you encounter other objectives, such as gold to collect, trees to regrow and old monuments to rebuild. This turns the difficulty and possibility of collecting points completely upside down.

Progression

With every city you piece together, the world becomes a little more verdant. When you complete a level, you will receive a gold, silver or bronze marker, depending on your score. Once you have enough points, you can move on to the next world.

Level Editor with Steam Workshop integration

Create and customize your own levels with the Level Editor! Design and build your own unique levels, experiment with different district layouts, and challenge yourself or others to solve your creations. Upload your own creations to the Steam Workshop and play your friends' levels

Leaderboard

Think you're the ultimate town planner? Compete for the top spot on the Leaderboard! Every level is a chance to earn points and climb the ranks. Optimize your placements, build the largest clusters, and challenge yourself to achieve the highest scores!

Features

  • Piece together beautiful towns along the river
  • Earn points in various ways
  • Enjoy many unique levels with ever-changing mechanics
  • Restore nature and rebuild the monuments of the old, broken world
  • Share your towns with photo mode
  • Compare your score with your friends

River Towns — game info

Platforms
Windows
Steam Deck
Playable
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Recommended Jul 25, 2026
I love this game but I've come up to a point that I can't pass. I'm Colorblind and some of the colors are blending together. can you try to add a colorblind mode please? still a great game though.
8 found this helpful
Recommended Jun 14, 2026
River Towns offers a relaxed respite from the things in life that rile us up and leaves us ripe for some rational reassurance. As someone who is not great at puzzles or city-builders, this game is a lovely way to enjoy the feelings of both. It offers freedom to creating solutions while also having the graphical fidelity and lighting to make watching your little villagers a joy. I am thankful that this game let me enjoy two genres I otherwise feel unqualified to try and wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone looking for something different yet welcoming.
2 found this helpful
Not recommended Jul 3, 2026
so-so puzzle game with simple mechanics. 10 hours decent entertainment. -half the levels autowin-easy -poor achievements. no highscore incentive
1 found this helpful
Recommended Jun 1, 2026
I was looking for a puzzle game with very specific criteria: no time limits, relaxing but challenging gameplay, and short, repeatable levels. Usually I can find 2 of the 3, but all 3 are in River Towns. There's just the right balance between unpredictability and needing to plan, starting over to redo a level for a better score feels easy rather than irritating, and it scratches that Tetris-loving part of my brain that likes to see blocks fit perfectly together. Things I would like to see in future updates: an undo button to correct frustrating misclicks, and maybe an endless mode that continues to expand, just for the enjoyment of trying to build around the rivers. Things that aren't as great: the sound effect that plays when a box is placed feels more like an "error" noise to me, and can get irritating after a long time; the map sometimes slides around after a placement and I can't figure out why. All in all - I love my eel cult~
1 found this helpful
Recommended Apr 22, 2026
This game is so well done. There is a lot of small detalis in it, you can see care that developers put in it. Game play is more comlex tetris, there is some logic puzzles added to half of the maps. even with all this factor of randomnes is not a cruch, I thing i only had restart map once(for better first tile). This game gave my joy :)
1 found this helpful
Recommended Sep 6, 2026
fun

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