GourdsTown

GourdsTown is a third-person adventure-crafting game about four gourds living in a tiny town surrounded by sunless wilderness. After one gourd wanders lost through the strange landscape, exhausted and overwhelmed by its darkness, it wakes in a peculiar town in the middle of nowhere. You help the town’s inhabitants with daily tasks, learn their stories and secrets, and uncover how they came to live there and how they survive.

Story and town

The game’s acts explore the stories of the town-gourds and address questions about how you arrived and why the town exists in the wilderness. Paying close attention to small details can lead you to further discoveries about the dark, fantastical world and its ways. The game features original hand-painted artwork.

Crafting and requests

You collect materials and use them to make cooking recipes. Some recipes come from fellow town-gourds, while others require experimentation with the communal oven and mortar. Even failed recipes have a use in this world. The dishes help fulfill requests from the town-gourds and can sometimes be important to the town’s survival; your other daily tasks include simple forging.

Light and wilderness

You must venture beyond the town to gather materials that grow wild. The farther you go and the longer you stay out, the more your light levels diminish. If you pass out, you can lose some of the materials you collected, so the time you spend outside matters.

As the story progresses, the town’s light gradually falls to low levels. Mystic stabilises it while you search outside for light sources to reignite the light furnace.