Instructions
Tiny Borough
Ten minutes, twelve by twelve acres. Zone homes, shops and works, put them on the power and water grid, plant parks, and keep the mood up while a storm, a heatwave or a festival comes through.
- Year
- 2003
- Era
- Early Web
- Genre
- Strategy / City builder
Free, no sign-up. Keyboard, touch or gamepad.
How to play
- Click a tool, then click or drag on the map.
- Keys: arrows move, A builds, B changes tool, Enter speeds up time.
- P to pause.
On touch
- Tap a tool, then tap or drag on the map.
- Tap SPEED to run time at double pace.
Every run starts on the title screen. Pause any time with P or the pause button; calm mode removes flashes and screen shake.
Maker’s note
Your score is what you leave behind: people, mood and a little savings. The land, the lakes and the order of events come from a seed, so a daily run is the same borough for everyone. If the mood stays very low for 25 seconds the borough empties and the run ends.
The Eracade workshop
Target scores
- 1150
- 2400
- 3800
- 41,500
- 52,300
- 63,200
- 74,100
- 84,900
Each target is a step up. Beat them all and you have outplayed the workshop.
The Early Web era, 1997–2004
Beige towers, bevelled buttons and games that loaded one modem squeal at a time.
High scores
The top ten runs are saved in this browser with your three initials. Nothing is uploaded unless you submit a ranked run, so clearing site data clears the table.
