- A First Look at our Animated Trailer and Announcing New Platforms! 🎥 - 19 February 2026
Gather around, explorers! While our voyage this year has been mostly calm so far, we're ready to announce some exciting news! As we continue steadily throughout Townseek's development, it's about time we unveil a few things we've been preparing in secret for a while! 👀Let's dive right into it! Announced during the Convergence Games Showcase, here is a first look at our Townseek animated trailer! 🎥 In this first look, you get to meet some of the characters who helped shape Sir Reginald Sharkingston's journey. You can also spot some new locations and activities that we've never shown before. It's great to finally see our characters come to life, but we're saving the full animated trailer for a later date, once we're finally ready to set sail! ⛵Well then! Sit back, get ready to meet some new faces, and enjoy our trailer! 👇 (Link in case the embed doesn't appear!)Alongside this trailer,…
- 《Townseek》 will be exhibiting at WePlay Expo 2025！ - 20 November 2025
Dear Players,We want to thank you for your continued interest and support. We are thrilled to confirm that:《Townseek》 will be exhibiting at WePlay Expo 2025.We will be showcasing the game with an on-site demo, allowing players to experience the newest gameplay features and content firsthand. We invite everyone to visit our booth and share your feedback with us.📍 Exhibition InfoEvent: WePlay Expo 2025Date: November 22 – November 23, 2025 (CST)Venue: Shanghai World Expo Exhibition and Convention Center, Hall H3, A01Thank you for your ongoing encouragement.We look forward to meeting you all at WePlay!
- Cozy exploration-trading game Townseek arrives Spring 2026 with a fresh demo - 18 November 2025
Discover exotic landmarks, meet whimsical townsfolk, fish in tranquil waters, collect rare artifacts, and uncover secrets in a wondrous hand-drawn world. Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/cozy-exploration-trading-game-townseek-arrives-spring-2026-with-a-fresh-demo/
- Take to the skies of Explora as Townseek is coming to Steam in Spring 2026! 🎉 - 17 November 2025
Announced just now in Cozy Quest, we're excited to share that Townseek is coming to Steam in Spring 2026! 🌺 We've been working non-stop to make the game the best it can be, so that when it launches you can enjoy the game with it's best foot forward. 😊Here's our updated trailer release window trailer, with some new shots of the game! 👇In addition to the release window, we're proud to announce we've updated our Townseek Demo with ten new languages! You can now play through the demo in English, French, German, Spanish (Spain), Spanish (LATAM), Portuguese (Portugal), Portuguese (Brazil), Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese! 🗺️With so many different languages, it's likely there are some mistakes that have fallen through the cracks. If you see anything we've missed, pop into our Localisation Feedback thread on Steam Discussions and let us know! You can also let us…
- Raise your fins for ten fun days during Steam's Animal Fest and Cozy Quest! 🦈 - 11 November 2025
Hey there! Carrying on from our Tour of Explora, we're thrilled to share that we're taking part in two amazing Steam events back-to-back this November! 🎉First up, from the 10th to the 17th of November, we're being featured on Steam's Animal Fest! 🦁 The sale celebrates all sorts of different animals and critters across games. And since our world includes sharks, cats, birds and more to befriend and trade with, we wanted to share our world with all the other fauna lovers! 🦈And of course, now is also the perfect time to play our demo! You can meet adorable critters, trade with wild, wacky and wholesome characters, and find out what makes our world come alive with personality and charm! Your demo save will carry over to the full game so you can pick up right where you left from.Just as Animal Fest wraps up, we're heading straight into Cozy Quest from the 17th to the 20th of November! 🕯️…
- Brewing surprises for Whaloween! 🪄 - 31 October 2025
It’s the witching hour, and something wicked is brewing! 🌙 Sorcerer Moe and his sidekick are cooking something mysterious, and it requires the nastiest ingredients. Whiskey, giving a hand, is mixing the dreadful candy corn into the magical pot so that- wait, what? Blubbie?! That’s not a jacuzzi! Ah, well, anything goes in Whaloween night! 🎃It’s Halloween season, and we’re tricking and treating with brand new artwork to celebrate! ✨ Over the past few years, we've featured Townseek locations in our Whaloween artworks. This time around we wanted to show a bit more of characters, featuring a fan favourite trio of tricksters! And scarecrow Whalechan is also there for good measure! We couldn't let our mascot character be missing from one of our artworks, could we?Fetch your best ingredients, since it’s time to brew some good times! 🪄Last year, our artwork hinted towards a mysterious, dark…
- Hopping around with the bunnies at Burrowburg! 🐰 - 14 October 2025
You’re going to need a big bowl for this salad! 🥗 Nature has a way of giving us some big surprises every now and then, and few things are bigger than the carrots that you can see in the horizon. In these forests, these vegetables grow very large. And if you stick around for dessert, there’s a lot of chocolate to be had as well! 🥕It’s time for our Tour of Explora to take a healthy stroll in the woods! If the bandits of Lawride Town were too rowdy for your liking, then you might want to meet some cuddly friends instead. And none are cuddlier, fluffier and full of life than the bunnies from Burrowburg! Built alongside huge forests and farmlands, Burrowburg is a town where the residents' hearts are as big as their giant carrots! During the season, their crops grow to enormous heights, which allow the bunnies to carve them for materials, to make homes out of them and, of course, eat them!…
- Have your art as an easter egg in Townseek! 🖌️ - 10 October 2025
Artists, grab your drawing tools! 🖌️ North of Lawride Town, the latest town that we've featured on our Tour of Explora for Townseek, there's a Happy Tree landmark that pays homage to a well-known, beloved painter. Those who've travelled far on our demo might have noticed already that the tree's paintings and art change over time as you explore around. You might have spotted a friendly yellow labrador, our mascot, and even the cover art of the game itself. What's going on there?Turns out the paintings do change! Our team has drawn a handful of different paintings which change as you pass by every few minutes. We designed it as a fun easter egg, with canvas with different artworks, referring to the game, our characters, and various things from our past and present. However, like everything else in Townseek, there could always be more canvas being drawn by the happy tree. 🌳That's where y…
- Hiding from Crop Bandits at Lawride Town! 🍉 - 29 September 2025
Whoa! Watch out, explorers! 🙌 As we approach the next town, you'll notice that life in the simple, rural lands is not as quiet as one would expect! With fishing bears, crow pirates, bandits and even aliens, you might get more than you bargained for! 👀But now that we're here, we've arrived at our next destination in our Tour of Explora! After the sharks, cats, and slimes, it's time we land at the otherwise normal and quiet Lawride Town! Its humble rural life has everything a seasoned farmer needs! 🍉It’s time to slow down and enjoy the simple life! Lawride Town is well known in the zone for having everything that farmers need. Just head to The Farming Farm south-west from here and they’ll share some sowing lots with you! 🌱Life is good and straightforward, until you step out of the town that is. If you want to get your own fish, travel south to Minty Bear’s Lake. Who is more profession…
- Events Galore with Mexican Entertainment System, Six One Indie, and TGS! 🪅 - 19 September 2025
Hey there, explorers! While our Tour of Explora continues, we also continue participating in events! Townseek has been going on quite an adventure and we're not stopping any time soon! ⛵This time, we're having the opportunity to feature the game in three amazing events at once! All these events are happening at the same time over this week and the next, so please, check out the sale pages for each of them. You might even find something you could play while waiting for Townseek! 🧭First up, we're participating in the Mexican Entertainment System! If you've been around a while, you'll know that we've already participated in it a few times already. Our team is half Mexican and half Portuguese, collaborating from across the ocean and in-person at times. Add in our publisher and media partners, and the game truly is a multicultural effort, just like the game portrays! 🪅The event is a perfec…
- Finding a new spark of creativity at Driplands! 🌈 - 8 September 2025
Hop onboard, as it's time for us to continue our Tour of Explora! Now that we've visited the underwater town of Sharkdwell and the furry settlement of Meowosville, we're heading towards a colourful, majestic swamp! Watch out where you land your ship. The swamp water can be hard to wash off!This time, our stop is at Driplands, a place that is a town as much as an endless, rainbow swamp! 🌈 The lands around the town are covered in very colourful goop. You'll know you're there when you see a giant iron water faucet on the horizon! Even if you're travelling on your own, you can't miss it.Put on your best raincoat, some tall boots, and let's meet the locals!When the goo from the Pastel Falls merged with the Mossy Marsh, the first slimefolk were born! With time, they learned that the substance that gave them life had a lot of handy properties, like solidifying, medicine, jewellery, and more,…
- Show us your pets and we'll add them to Townseek! 🐶 - 20 August 2025
Calling all pet owners and adorable pets! 🐱 You might have noticed while playing our demo and throughout our Tour of Explora that Townseek has many critters that liven up our world. Over the course of development, whenever we found the opportunity, we have added new animals and creatures that appear at random as you travel around, populating the different continents and places you visit. There's not only dogs, cats, and birds, but also more unique friends such as capybaras, kiwis, triceratops, and many more!Since we've just highlighted a town all about cats, their close-by dog park and fish aquarium this week, we would like to give you the opportunity to have your own pets added in-game as critters! ✨ Be it dogs, cats, or any other animal you've got, we'd love to get the opportunity to meet some of your own pets, pick some of them, and introduce them in game as some of the critters tha…
- Meeting the Crafty Felines at Meowosville! 🐱 - 11 August 2025
It's time to leave the seas and head to our next destination on our Tour of Explora! In case you haven't caught up yet, last week, we started a tour of the different towns you can discover in Townseek, starting with Sharkdwell.This week, we're looking at the feline town of Meowosville! As one would expect of cats, they really like cardboard and strings, and made their town to fit their needs. Being a close neighbour to Sharkdwell, it's one of the first towns you'll discover as you venture into land.Let's go meet these adorable yet crafty friends! Just keep an eye out for your belongings! Catfolk are very social and great explorers, and Meowosville is surrounded by equally interesting creatures. They're friends to the sandcastle crabs at the beach south of the town, and unlike whatever one might expect, they love playing with the dogs at the nearby Goodboi Park! Meanwhile, to the north,…
- Go on a trip around the world during the Debut Festival! 🌟 - 10 August 2025
If you've just been catching up with our Tour of Explora that we kicked off this week with Sharkdwell, why not take the opportunity to go on a trip around the world? Our Townseek Demo is part of the Debut Festival happening right now! 🦈🌏The Debut Festival version of our demo is the same as the one we took to BitSummit a few weeks ago, so there are no surprises for veteran explorers this time around. But if you haven't tried it yet, now is your chance to take to the skies, trade over 200 items between five unique towns, discover landmarks, and see what adventures await you across Explora!We do want to let you know that we're still at work on adding new languages (including Japanese, Chinese, and others) to the demo and that the translations are going really well! We're planning to have a new update to the demo with them and new quality-of-life improvements in the coming weeks. Thanks a…
- Presenting the Tour of Explora and Diving into Sharkdwell! 🦈 - 4 August 2025
Gather around, explorers! ✨ With our updated demo and with Townseek on the horizon, we thought now would be a great time to take you on a Tour of Explora! There's many unique places and cultures to discover within the world. With so many locations, every couple of weeks, we want to give you a closer look at some of the towns, characters and stories you'll meet in the game.What better way to start this tour than from the town that you come from? From under the waves and in the middle of the ocean, we're starting this tour with a closer look at the steampunk town of Sharkdwell, home to Capt. Jawline, Sir Reginald Sharkingston and, of course, to you! 🦈Let's get ready to depart on this journey together, shall we?Sharkdwell is right at the centre of Explora's vast ocean, and is a popular hub for trading! Back in its former days, Sharkdwell was an unremarkable mining town hidden deep away in…
- Whimsical exploration-trading adventure Townseek gets a big demo refresh - 22 July 2025
Townseek is a colourful casual exploration and trading adventure game from developer Whales And Games, with a brand new big upgrade for the demo available. Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/whimsical-exploration-trading-adventure-townseek-gets-a-big-demo-refresh/
- New Demo, New Artwork and New Friends from BitSummit! 🗻 - 20 July 2025
It's been a while since you've last heard of Capt. Jawline and from our team, hasn't it? That changes now! Our crew is taking Townseek on a remote trip to Japan and heading to BitSummit! 🗻 While we're not going to be there in person, we're sending it off with a brand new look in tow and a new adventurous demo for all of you who've been eager to play it! 🦈That's right! Our Townseek Demo is back on Steam again! If you've not had the opportunity to take a trip through Explora yet, now's the best time to do so! Fly at your own pace, trade over 200 items between five different towns, upgrade and customise your airship, discover landmarks, find random events, and much more.And if you're a returning player, there're a ton of new things to discover as well! We've rewritten the early game and its story, improved gamepad support, have a new photo mode for you to take photos of your journey, new…
- Celebrating our awards as Studio of the Year and Best Game from Portugal! 🏆 - 6 December 2024
In a surprising double-combo, at DevGAMM Lisbon, our team at Whales And Games won the award for Studio of the Year during the Spotlight Awards by Game Dev Lisbon! The very next day, Townseek won the prize for Best Game from Portugal at the DevGAMM Awards! 🏆 Receiving both these awards fills us with immense honour, and we're incredibly proud to receive them as a team! 🐳 To commemorate the occasion, we've drawn a special artwork to celebrate both of these awards! Whalechan, Capt. Jawline and Watt Zapp dressed in their fanciest outfits and were overjoyed to walk on stage to receive the awards! ⚡ To explain the background to these awards, earlier this month, our team attended DevGAMM Lisbon, a local conference focused on talks, networking, and its award show! Being two days long, it was a fantastic couple of days where we got to hang out with our colleagues, friends and meet even more dev…
- Townseek heads to Germany for gamescom and the Indie Arena Booth! 🥨 - 20 August 2024
We're excited to have Townseek as part of this year's line up for the Indie Arena Booth at gamescom, flying the game all the way to Köln in Germany! Starting on the 21st until the 25th of August, we'll be showing the game at the world's largest gaming expo. 🌭 We'll be showing the game as part of the Indie Arena Booth at F010G - E019 on Hall 10.2, alongside many other stellar games. In the case that you're visiting gamescom in person, we'll be distributing cards and stickers featuring Capt. Jawline, Whiskey, Fluffyroll, and more familiar hosts from the game, so please stop by and grab some! 🎉 This will also be the first time all of our team at Whales And Games is together at one event! ✨ We've always been partially as a team at different events we've had the game at since the beginning of development. Yet this will be the first get-together where all three of us are present! We'll be s…
- Check out the demo for the relaxing exploration-trading game Townseek - 10 January 2024
Available for a limited time during the Steam Capitalism and Economy Fest, you can try out a new demo for Townseek, a casual and relaxing exploration-trading game that looks real sweet. Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/check-out-the-demo-for-the-relaxing-exploration-trading-game-townseek
