- Dev Review - Trinkets! - 19 September 2026
What are trinkets?(Really powerful buffs, and we just think they’re neat)Trinkets are equipable buffs that offer huge benefits to you in battle. The right trinket can totally change the flow of your run. You’ll collect lots along the way, but you’re limited in how many you can equip. You’ll need to decide what trinkets work best with your deck, swapping them out between each battle to find the perfect synergy. Defeating enemies will give you a trinket from their collection, with their collection growing as you progress through the game. How come you changed them?(They were pretty lame)The old system automatically equipped every trinket you found, and the game threw so many at you. Balancing these basically meant making every one of them pretty darn weak, and while having many still added up to some pretty big buffs, you had no control over them. The whole system basically boiled down to…
- Juicy Ambience - 8 September 2024
One of the first bits of juice we added to the game were cars, we then promptly broke these before the recent demo and left them broken for months. But no more! We have re-added cars and they were certainly sorely missed, the city feels much more alive with so much motion. In addition we also added other aspects for more visual variety, these include but are not limited to planes, boats, and hot air balloons. For those of you who opt to leave at least a bit of the land without concrete, you may spot a flock or two of sheep! 📝 Join The Community Join us in our development process to get the latest news and help shape the future of the game! 💬 Join the team on Discord 🐦 Follow us on X (Formally Twitter) ❤️ Add to your wishlist on Steam:
- Card Trinkets - 1 September 2024
This week we're introducing our newest feature, card trinkets! Card trinkets can be attached to cards to give them additional effects, for example attach a "+2 Population" trinket to your Windmill card and the electricity company is in for surprise come next inspection when they find their new squatters! Below we have two trinkets with two basic population cards, the pink trinket gives an additional 2 population while the blue trinket gives an additional 2 approval. Attaching the blue trinket to the houses and the pink trinket to the apartments upgrades them with the trinket's attributes, resulting the in the following new cards. These of course are quite basic attributes, but we will be adding more complex and interesting interactions before release. We currently have it set up so trinkets on a card are permanent, but the system we have designed allows for re-slotting trinkets at will,…
- Making Maps! - 12 August 2024
Its been about 2 years we started this project and wow has time flown by! At this point you would expect us to probably be busy making cards? Or perhaps balance abilities? Well instead we decided to make an ingame level editor. Its definitely something that was overdue, we previously had a bunch of "debug" fields we would turn on over various scripts which as you can imagine was a bit tedious, now we have our brand new level editing UI! This new editor lets us create, edit, and balance existing levels on the fly without us needing to manually create resources outside the game, as you can imagine its a very welcome edition and should certainly help us speed up development. 📝 Join The Community Join us in our development process to get the latest news and help shape the future of the game! 💬 Join the team on Discord 🐦 Follow us on X (Formally Twitter) ❤️ Add to your wishlist on Steam:
- Challenge Accepted! - 31 July 2024
Greetings, Downtown Dealers! This week we’re showing off a new feature that's set to elevate your gameplay experience to new heights. Introducing the all-new challenge system! This exciting addition is designed to reward your dedication, skill, and creativity as you take on these new challenges. The new challenge system introduces a series of dynamic milestones and Steam achievements that will keep you engaged and motivated. Whether you’re a seasoned player or just starting your journey, these challenges offer something for everyone. Completing challenges will allow you to unlock new stuff to experience in future runs. Some challenges can be completed in a single level, others will require you to hit some ongoing milestones over the course of multiple runs. Downtown Dealers has always had engaging gameplay that combines city building with strategic card battles and now the introduction…
- A Mist Opportunity - 22 July 2024
🌧️ A Mist Opportunity Sometimes running a city isn’t the focus of our rival city planners. In the case of Misty, she is more interested in manipulating the weather as she sees fit using her modern meteorology "techniques". How does she do it you ask? Why she has her patented MayorTech™ Weather Station! Both a functional tool for weather manipulation prediction and an attractive feature the neighbors to admire! This rival building is rather unique in that it isn't necessarily a negative, in fact neighboring buildings get a bonus to approval, isn't Misty nice? Although hopefully she doesn't pick that prime location you were eyeing up for those luxury apartments! Although you may find it hard to keep this approval once the weather starts to turn, hopefully it doesn't rain on your parade! 📝 Join The Community Join us in our development process to get the latest news and help shape the fut…
- A Rewarding Policy - 14 July 2024
🏆 A Rewarding Policy We want you to keep coming back, and the best way to do that is with incentives! Please note that the art shown here is in active development and not representative of the final game. Each city you build will reward you with delivery of either a letter or package. A package contains a selection of cards for you to choose from, or if you’re feeling daring, skip the choice entirely. On the other hand a letter will reward you with a brand new policy, which can have a wide range of effects from simple bonuses to conditional actions that may greatly affect your playstyle. Each mayor also has a starting policy, helping to shape their overall playstyle. For example those who played the demo may know that Grace has the policy "Strong Community". This policy gives you an additional 2 approval each time you grow your community, which helps immensely with hitting those pesky…
- Making Mistakes - 7 July 2024
↩️ Make a Mistake? Undo it! We all make mistakes, and mistakes can be permanent. But not for a mayor! Complicated bureaucracy can be overcome and your mistake can be undone! (most of the time) Most actions within Downtown Dealers can be undone with the click of a button. Place an apartment on the wrong tile? Demolished a school and left the teachers out of a job? Instantly revert your action by clicking "Undo" and it's like it never happened! Our hope is this feature sets us apart from other card builders and also allow us to experiment with more challenging and unorthodox gameplay, because the power of undo allows you to try a card out and then try something else instead if you don't like the results. Although be warned, even for a mayor some actions are final, so don't do something you'll regret! 📝 Join The Community Join us in our development process to get the latest news and help…
- Downtown Dealers - New Demo Now Available! - 25 March 2024
🎺 New Demo Now Available! We're pleased to announce that our new demo is now available. You will be able to play multiple levels as our community hero, Grace, as she braves duels with the coven mayors, busts the predictions of Misty, and faces a showdown with Sue Nami, our first playable boss. If you played the previous demo you will be pleasantly surprised to see the vast changes and improvements we have made to both the visuals and the gameplay. This build represents a solidification of the direction of the game and a look at exactly what Downtown Dealers will have to offer in the full release. As always we would love to hear your thoughts and any feedback either right here in Steam Discussions or on our Discord! Good luck! 📝 Join The Community Join us in our development process to get the latest news and help shape the future of the game! 💬 Join the team on Discord 🐦 Follow us on…
- That Sinking Feeling - 15 March 2024
🌊 That Sinking Feeling Something every rogue-like needs is a challenge, and Downtown Dealers is no different! We aim to include a wide range of bosses with a variety of play-styles to keep things interesting. Today we're introducing one of our favourites, David Dockman! 🃏 Unique Cards Each boss will have their own unique cards and strategies to pile on the pressure, David is specialised in "Baiting" the player. Playing cards that at first may seem beneficial but can end up impacting your city if not dealt with in advance. Coupled with his taxing oil rigs, players might find their city a tad hard to fund. Particularly when he finally persuades those overworked dock workers that they deserve a fairer share for their hard work. That's all for today! Stay tuned for more peeks at what Downtown Dealers has to offer! 📝 Join The Community Join us in our development process to get the latest…
- Opposing Forces - 5 March 2024
✨ Blog Post #1! Its been almost a year since our original demo and we are very excited to start tell you all about what's new! As get closer to our shiny new updated demo and eventual release, we will be posting blog posts going into detail about different aspects of the game. Our very first post will delve into our rival mayors, which serve as the main antagonists for you to overcome! Life would be so much simpler without obstacles, unfortunately not every city mayor is quite so willing to step aside. From disgraced accountants to vampire cults, you will encounter a wide range of individuals with their own unique decks ready to put you out of a job. 🧛♂️ Introducing Our Sanguine City Planners Today we’re looking at some bloodthirsty business from a cult who are ready to sink their teeth into town planning. The three vampire groups make up some of the early game mayors that you’ll be w…
- Next fest Livestream with the devs #2 - 21 June 2023
Greetings! We're happy to announce our livestream event as part of Steam Next Fest! We'll be streaming some gameplay and answering any questions you may have. We really hope you'll tune in and try out the demo, and if you have any feedback we would love to hear from you.
- Downtown Dealers Next Fest Stream - 20 June 2023
Greetings! We'll be streaming some gameplay throughout Steam Next Fest, so come check it out and if you like what you see you can try the demo and wishlist!
- Next fest Livestream with the devs - 16 June 2023
Greetings! We're happy to announce our livestream event as part of Steam Next Fest! We'll be streaming some gameplay and answering any questions you may have. We really hope you'll tune in and try out the demo, and if you have any feedback we would love to hear from you.
