Build a blissful art deco sci-fi city as an AI mayor in Technotopia, out this October | Gaming

If the recent Frostpunk 2 left you – haha, wait for it, ah this is going to be great, I’m so pleased with myself – cold (!!!!) then why not run your eye over fellow city builder Technotopia. Developed by Yustas and published by Wall World and Beholder outfit Alawar, it casts you as an AI mayor, Iris, who is trying to create the perfect city in a world of social and economic calamity. A world of social and economic calamity that looks, nonetheless, rather pleasant. I like the art deco retro-future vibe.

Iris is both helped and hindered in this endeavour by four human factions – “capitalists, aristocrats, politicians, and the common people”. I hail from the UK, where aristocrats tend also to be capitalists and politicians, so I’m tempted to reword this as “the common…