That gorgeous cozy castle doodling game is launching a demo this month

Since the surprise success of Townscaper a few years ago, a crop of other “radically casual” cozy city builders has been in the works, and Tiny Glade has definitely been at the top of my wishlist—and most other folks’, I suspect. Thank goodness we’re finally going to get to try painting lovely ivy-covered walls across a pastoral canvas: Pounce Light says a demo is coming on May 30.

Tiny Glade, from everything we’ve seen so far, is a very laid back building game that takes after some of the procedural building elements so many people enjoyed in Townscaper but with its own deeper set of building tools. You can draw castle-y curtain walls, raise towers, and scatter your choices of windows, lights, and other decor. Bits of your project will respond to one another as you build, like walls sprouting an arched gateway when you draw a footpath leading up to its edge. 

In its blog post, Pounce Light says that in the demo we’ll be able to play the “summer glade” map, the sunny, grass plains and woods backdrop that we’ve seen in so many of its sneak peeks and posts. From a screenshot, it looks like we’ll be able to build structures and paths, place windows and lights, and change paint colors and terrain heights. There’s a flower symbol in the toolbar as well which I’m guessing is related to placing landscaping details.