Super Kanko Town

Super Kanko Town is an incremental city-building simulator about the perversities of mass tourism. Raze village homes, farms, and gardens. Erect capsule hotels, souvenir stalls, and gourmet sushi bars. Build a surfer‘s paradise, a hipster heaven, or a trap for backpackers. Tend to your pixel city, keep the tourists happy, fight the sea monsters. Have fun.

(That was the elevator pitch. Now, the full story.)

This game is an experimental sandbox about a seaside town that unexpectedly gets a bus route.

The bus brings the first tourists, carrying their small, touristy belongings.

The tourists come for the beach—but then what?

They need to eat, sleep, and entertain themselves.

Help them do so. Because if they leave hungry, tired, and miserable, you’ll be surprised how quickly your town gets a rating of 1 star on the most popular mapping app.

Once you build your first food truck and guesthouse, you’ll find out that this is nowhere near enough. The bus route becomes popular. You’ll need hotels, the hotels need workers, the workers need supplies, and very soon the town finds itself producing and consuming all manner of resources.

Build a Surf Shop, and the town will start producing Waves. Soon, sunbathers and boardheads everywhere! Construct an Atheneum, and follow through with galleries, museums, and coffee shops for the Culture Vultures. Erect a Yacht Club, and here it is: luxury. Soon you’ll be seeing moneyed crowd looking for the Grand Hotel.

You’ll encounter difficulties, of course. There will be occasional fires, criminal activity, rubbish crises, and giant monsters just off the coast (not good for the industry!). Fix everything manually, or, if you’re wealthy enough, delegate to the professionals.

Good luck and thank you for playing Super Kanko Town.