Camp
Twelve founders, one campfire, and a suggestion box that is technically a hole. Corn first. Civilization shortly after.
The Light Update · Native Mac · Ten ages
A town that
keeps an hour.
Build a chicken civilization from campfire to starlight. They handle the pecking. You handle the plan.
$9.99 once · No ads · No in-app purchases · Plays offline
01 Same town · five hours
Watch the cavern keep time.
Light moves across the plateau on the town’s own clock. Dawn cools the stone, dusk warms the windows — and a saved town reloads at exactly the hour you left it.
Dawn · Cool light reaches the plateau.
02 Inside the latest build
The whole game, on the board.
The current town, its petitions, ventures, neighbors, diplomacy, and named Joes. Every image comes from the current Mac build, with staged sample data where needed.
Select any frame to inspect it full size.
03 Ten ages · one cavern
Campfire to starport, in ten
entirely reasonable steps.
Kingdom
Roads hum and granaries fill — a banquet here is snacks with witnesses. The cavern starts looking like a capital.
Space
Sixteen sunrises a day; the rooster quit. The first cavern stays home — the stars are just the commute.
Every age, captured in-game
- 01
Camp
Twelve chickens and a plan.
- 02
Town
The pothole has tenure and a name.
- 03
Citadel
The moat remains conceptually damp.
- 04
Crown
Nobility is poultry with accessories.
- 05
Kingdom
Granaries fit for royalty.
- 06
Empire
Goggles optional. Ambition mandatory.
- 07
Ascendant
Worms reached enlightenment first. Typical.
- 08
Fusion
The corn near the core popped itself.
- 09
Orbital
Zero-g roosting is technically hovering.
- 10
Space
Lore drop: the universe hatched from an egg.
04 Five flocks, five paths
Pick an origin. Own its consequences.
Talon Banner
“Peace through pecking order.”
Cheaper soldiers, richer raids, and diplomats famous for carrying banners into other towns and leaving with the grain.
Moonmolt Covenant
“Read the omens in every molted feather.”
Consults the moon before breakfast. The moon has surprisingly firm opinions about zoning.
Cogwing Guild
“Measure twice, cluck once.”
Machines that run beautifully, provided nobody asks which gear is load-bearing.
Golden Peck Consortium
“Every sunrise is a market opening.”
Discovered that grain left alone becomes more grain. Naps professionally — the ledger keeps counting either way.
Featherlight Communion
“A calm roost weathers every storm.”
Holds that most wars end the moment somebody finally shares the snacks. Their enemies leave confused and faintly blessed.
Each origin owns one core system and one unique building, and you choose once per town. The town spends the rest of history being that town.
05 The flock has names
The town grows. So do its Joes.
John, Alex, Dawson, and Matt are four of the twelve founders. They pick up skills, ranks, friendships, and earned traits as the town grows — no two saves agree on who’s in charge.
- Four ranks, honestly earned. Worker to Foreman to Steward to Elder — promotions are paid for in corn and stone, and an Elder lifts the whole town.
- Perks are chosen. Traits are earned. You can respec what you picked for a Joe. You can never respec what they did.
- Moods with consequences. An Inspired Joe outworks a Weary one, and the ledger shows it.
“Our spreadsheet has feathers.”
John
Bold · Farming today, audibly
Alex
Dreamy · Out scouting a promising rock
Dawson
Crafty · Studying; the footnotes have footnotes
Matt
Earnest · Newly promoted; everyone has heard
06 The suggestion box got an upgrade
The flock files petitions.
Named Joes bring the town’s business to your desk — specific, sincere, and slightly absurd. Approve one and the town builds the spa, funds the dig, or settles the feud over a shared meal.
Declining costs nothing. Nothing in Joe Town punishes you for saying “not yet.”
“Six worms run the entire under-soil trade. We buy in now, or we buy in later at their price.”
— the Worm Cartel
“There’s a hole behind the quarry. It was not there yesterday. I want it on the record.”
— the Suspicious Hole
“The wind is right there, doing nothing at all. Let’s put it on the payroll.”
— the Windmill Proposal
“Small wooden chickens, enormous wooden feelings. The roost is ready for a theatre.”
— the Puppet Theatre
26 petition archetypes. Statues, spas, bell towers, libraries — and one Monument raised in four phases across the ages.
07 The city is the hero
See the whole town at work.
A physical production chain. Roads are supply lines, not decoration. Named Joes carry each resource tile by tile, and the Logistics view shows exactly where a stalled route needs your attention.
01CornFarm
02FlourMill
03BreadBakery
04FoodMarket
Build 24 buildings, wire them together with visible supply lines, and commit to permanent choices across 18 technologies. Step away and the flock keeps working; come back and the town files a full report. A recent one: “Everything grew; nothing exploded. Probably.”
08 Choices that reshape the town
Your decisions stay on the board.
Lift a lasting restriction through the guild, shape a Joe with chosen perks and earned traits, then raise one Monument across four age-gated phases. These are not menu flourishes. They change how this town grows.
09 Joe Town Foundry · Watchtower study
One building. Every useful angle.
The Foundry turns an approved design into a consistent eight-view production master. These square studies help the art team lock silhouette, materials, light, and attachment points before the final pixel sprites are baked.
Production art · not gameplayWork-in-progress art pipeline renders. Final in-game assets remain pixel art.
Swipe through all eight views
1 / 8
Select a view to inspect the square production render. The final SpriteKit game uses separately approved pixel-art bakes.
10 Beyond the cavern
The neighbors have institutions.
Send named scouts into the dark and chart a world that grows with every age. Out there: landmarks that pay rent forever, monsters with territorial opinions, and thirteen animal civilizations that would like to discuss terms.
The Puddle Parliament
Ducks
“Cheerful navigators with suspiciously strong opinions.”
The Honking Directorate
Geese
“Fearless diplomats who consider volume a negotiating skill.”
The Truffle Republic
Pigs
“Inventive traders who prize clever bargains.”
The Warren Synod
Rabbits
“Fast-growing scholars with an excellent tunnel network.”
The Grand Gobble
Turkeys
“Ceremonial strategists who never enter a room quietly.”
The Starweave Compact
Llamas
“Starward weavers with calm manners and improbable engines.”
Send envoys, sign trade pacts, host festivals, or demand tribute — each civilization has a temperament, and a Proud one goes to war over an insult a Gentle one shrugs off. Seven more nations wait past the fog, each with a capital, a favored resource, and a price.
11 Defense is a puzzle
Battles are won in the planning.
Scout a rival and the report writes your battle plan: which gate is weak, which is guarded, what’s worth carrying home. Pick an entry, an objective, and how much of the army to commit — then watch it play out on seeded dice.
- Named captains earn renown. Captains like Sir Peckard or Henrietta Boldwing get better with every campaign, and it shows on the field.
- Three gates, three objectives. Rams love the Main Gate. Archers prefer the Cliff Path. Choose accordingly.
- Defeat is survivable. A failed raid comes home as “a tactical learning vacation.” The flock recovers. The story continues.
12 The coopconomy
Twelve businesses. One very proud egg.
Found ventures that run themselves and pay in full whether you visit or not — the Market Stall fills in about twenty minutes, the Starship Prospectors in two days. Everything banks at full value and stays yours. Forever.
- Worm Farm — “Worms in, worms out. Mostly out.”
- Market Stall — “Two crates and an opinion about prices.”
- Quarry Consortium — “Several hens agree about a rock.”
- Courier Run — “Nothing travels faster than a chicken with a parcel.”
- Shipping Fleet — “Bulk. Simply bulk.”
- Starship Prospectors — “Somewhere out there is a very rich rock.”
A traveling merchant rotates one-of-a-kind artifacts through town. Most do something remarkable. One is the Unremarkable Egg: “It is an egg. Nothing happens. The flock is very proud of it.” It still costs 120 food and 60 wood.
13 Leave. It’s fine.
The town takes notes while you’re gone.
Close the lid mid-shift and the flock keeps working. Come back in an hour or a week and the town hands you a Welcome Back report — production, arrivals, and anything waiting at the gate. Raids never resolve without you: “the walls will hold until you’re ready to answer.”
All of it lands in the Flock Chronicle — major events, Notable Joes, and the running history of a town that remembers whose idea the hole was.
14 A campaign with a crown
Reach the stars. Then earn the Deep Throne.
Completing the Space Legacy seals the campaign, but it does not end the town. Five feat-gated Deep Throne levels turn the epilogue into a record of everything your empire mastered.
10ages · Camp Charter to Space Legacy
5throne levels, each tied to an empire-wide feat
21Game Center achievements across the campaign
∞your town, preserved — existing saves stay compatible
Play completely offline. No ads. No in-app purchases. One town can become a very long story.
15 The practical matters
Buy it once. Keep the whole game.
What kind of strategy game is Joe Town?
A native Mac city builder and simulation. Paint roads, tune production, make permanent technology choices, and keep an eye on the neighbors — the ducks have a parliament, and the geese consider volume a negotiating skill.
Is $9.99 the full game?
Yes. One purchase includes all ten ages, 24 buildings, 18 technologies, the named Joes, and local saves. No ads, no in-app purchases, no gameplay tracking. As the flock puts it: “Hoarding, but civic-minded.”
Is Joe Town an idle game?
No. The town-defining choices wait for you. Offline progress is bounded and arrives as a tidy summary — no streaks, no energy meters, no login rewards, no guilt. The chickens simply kept busy.
Does it play offline?
Entirely. Joe Town saves locally and plays with the internet off. When you return, the town reports in — usually something like “Productivity occurred without supervision.”
Which Macs are supported?
macOS 14 or later, on Apple silicon or Intel — one native universal Mac app. The chickens cannot tell which chip you have and are at peace with that.
Is every town the same?
No two are. Worlds are seeded, the twelve founders take their seats in a different order every game, and towns diverge by what their Joes asked for. Two towns at the same age can disagree about nearly everything, including the theatre.
Does Joe Town collect data?
The Mac game does not collect gameplay or account data. This website uses Google Analytics to understand aggregate visits — see the privacy notice. The only census in Joe Town counts chickens, and it lists eggs as residents, pending.
They have a campfire.
You have a plan.
Buy on the Mac App Store · $9.99
Play offline · No ads · No in-app purchases · No gameplay tracking