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Up for a relaxing City-Builder? Well, Gourdlets has got you covered. The aim of Gourdlets is to create a beautiful and peaceful island paradise for its cute inhabitants to enjoy. Indie studio AuntyGames is releasing Gourdlets this Summer on Steam. If you want to try out the game right now, they've just released an updated demo for the Steam Next Fest!
This new demo for Gourdlets adds extra items, quality-of-life updates, and a bunch of new activities for the veggie citizens of your cozy island town. If you're a desktop user, then you might find the all-new “idle window mode” useful, which lets your gourdlets hang out at the bottom of your screen while you get on with other things like browsing the web or maybe even working.
Now I have to reassure Noah that I'm not running Gourdlets in the background whenever I'm writing these articles...
Check out this eye-catching game in the trailer below:
Get ready, a train is pulling into the station, and it's bringing the very first batch of gourdlet citizens to their new island home. It's now your job to build them a perfect town.
But there's no need to worry, it turns out that the Gourdlets are super laid back, and they’ll be happy no matter what you build. The only real challenge is pleasing yourself!
From cafes to lighthouses, planters to fountains, there’s a huge catalog of decorations for you to play with. After you've built a building, you can go inside and arrange the furniture how you like. Play in widescreen mode, or squish the town down to the bottom of your screen and tinker while doing other stuff!
The gourdlets will make themselves at home in your town, fishing, reading, camping, snoozing, and generally having a grand old time. Craft the perfect veggie town in Gourdlets!
There's no way to lose in Gourdlets, so let your imagination go wild and build your island paradise!



Gourdlets will be available on Steam later this Summer. You can try out a demo on Steam right now! The game does have controller support and very easy-to-run system requirements, so I don't see any reason why the game wouldn't run well on the Steam Deck. Hopefully, the UI is manageable to read, or scalable for use on the Deck!
Does Gourdlets sound like a relaxing game to play on a Summer's afternoon? It does to me! Let us know what you think in the comments below!
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