Weekend Games and Biscuit Factory Games have announced that Papaya Plaza, a cosy city-building simulation game, is set to launch on PC via Steam. The game boasts involvement from developers who previously worked on Fall Guys and Fortnite, and tasks players with transforming a sleepy tourist town into a vibrant destination as its mayor.

As the mayor of Papaya Plaza, you'll be tasked with turning your village from a desolate, gloomy spot into a warm and welcoming place. This involves improving your town's ranking to ultimately achieve a five-star village status. The process of enhancing your village has been designed to be a low-stress, relaxing experience, with hundreds of choices available for players to craft their own pixel-art paradise.

The game's art director is Stef Bollen, better known as StefScribbles, who boasts over 280,000 followers on social media. Papaya Plaza encourages players to enjoy the game in their own way, helping out the villagers and earning money by opening new shops. As mayor, you'll hear about problems and ideas for the town from uniquely designed villagers, with rewards for resolving them.

Key features include the comfort of solving problems and building a town with low stress and low risk, an art style that brings a lively world to life in a beautiful pixel art style, and the objective of building a town and raising its ranking to become a five-star village.

Papaya Plaza is scheduled for release in 2027.