Hey! In case you have any questions about our game Townseek, we’ve set up this thread with some of the most commonly asked questions about the game!

We'll be adding more questions as they arise and as development continues! If you haven’t seen it yet, we also recommend checking out the Welcome to Townseek! thread!

Townseek is a relaxing exploration-trading game where you take to the skies and explore the fictional world of Explora, discovering exotic landmarks and trading with towns. You’re tasked with reassembling the journal bestowed to you by Capt. Jawline and discovering the lost legacy of Sir Reginald Sharkingston by finding his lost journal pages across all over the world!

Each town you discover has its own charismatic host and unique culture! Trade your inventory for new items, upgrades, airship cosmetics, and more. As you continue your travels across Explora, you can also catch unique fish, mine one-of-a-kind artefacts, dig for treasure, farm exotic fruits, and more! The whole world is your sea now, so be sure to see all that it has to offer!

While we were originally aiming to release the game earlier this year, over the last months, we've realised that some aspects of the game could use a bit more time to nail down and build upon. We've almost doubled story-wise just as continents are much more detailed, and that has lead us to dedicate and require some more time to getting it done!

While we don't have a new concrete release date in mind just yet, we're not expecting it to take much longer now! We'll announce the final date as soon as we're confident on a new target! Depending on how the game is received, we plan for the game to have updates after its full release.

We're not launching the game in Early Access, though we’ll sometimes release demos for feedback!

Pricing is still subject to change, but we’re targeting $19.99 with a launch discount and regional pricing according to Steam’s recommendations.

Alongside Steam, we'll also be releasing the game on Itch.io as we have with all of our previous games! We’ll be looking into more options for storefronts as development continues and after release.

Yes! In addition to Windows, the game also runs natively on Linux and the game was designed with full support for the Steam Deck in mind. We believe it's the perfect game to suspend and pick-up at any time, and the Steam Deck is perfect for that!

Since we don’t have the setup to properly quality assure it at this time, we're unable to confirm a macOS version.

We’ve announced that the game will also be coming to consoles! We still haven’t announced which consoles yet, so please look forward to any future announcements on that. 😉

We don’t plan to bring the game to mobile.

Yes! We’re making the game fully compatible with multiple brands of controllers and gamepads.

Aside from English, the game will be localised in French, German, Spanish (Spain and Latin America), Japanese, Portuguese (Portugal and Brazil) and Chinese (Simplified and Traditional) with the possibility of additional languages in the future.

At this time we’re not looking for community translations to other languages, but if you’re interested in reaching out to us in a professional capacity, please let us know.

Townseek was first created for Global Game Jam 2021, and expanded with a few updates thereafter. After a very heart-warming reception, we’ve put our focus into making a feature-complete full version of the game!

The full version introduces a much larger map with a completely refreshed art style, featuring dozens of towns to discover, expanded trading, and quests with expressive hosts. It also features a new main quest featuring the journal of Sir Reginald Sharkingston, as well as new side activities, more in-depth ship customisation, and much more!

Townseek is being developed by our team at Whales And Games, a three-person indie studio based in Portugal. We create positive, polished games and art brimming with whalistic personality!

The game is being published by Super Rare Games as part of their Super Rare Originals label who are helping us out with various aspects of the game's production and helping us research new ways to bring the game even further!

You can join us at our Discord Server[discord.gg]! We’ve got a pretty close-knit community, and we’ll be sharing more of the game and casually talking as developers there as development continues!

For our social media links, check our Welcome to Townseek! Thread!

Let us know about it! We love to receive suggestions for anything including new features, activities, cosmetics, to the smallest details like critters and items!

We’d also love to know, in case you’re a person that requires certain accessibility settings in games, which settings you believe we should include in the game.

Please understand that giving suggestions doesn’t confirm we’ll implement them. If you’d like, you can also suggest them to us through the #townseek-lobby channel in our Discord Server[discord.gg]!

Feel free to ask in the replies below, by emailing us directly at contact@whalesandgames.com or through our Discord Server[discord.gg]!🦈