Apply for Residency · Playtest Permit

Help shape The City before Early Access.

We are looking for play testers to find bugs and usability problems before the game opens to everyone. Testers get the game extra early, and a direct line to the people building it.

What you get

The game before anyone else, every new build as it lands, and your ideas at the front of the queue.

What we ask

About an hour a day in the game, and clear reports: what you did, what you saw, and what you wanted to happen.

Share with discretion

Please avoid posting videos, screenshots or game-breaking bugs online: you are playing a very early version. But we want you to talk about the game with your own audiences. It is fun!

Sign up

It takes about three minutes. We read every application and write back by email.

What should we call you?

Email addressOnly used to contact you about play testing.

Your Steam profile name or linkWe send test builds through Steam.

Are you familiar with city builders?

Can you put in about an hour a day?

Which city builders have you played, and which is your favourite?

Tell us about a bug or an annoyance in any game you played recently.What exactly did you see, what were you doing when it happened, and what did you want to happen instead? This is the answer we read most closely: testers need to be able to describe a problem precisely.

Your graphics card and processorIf you know them. It helps us test on a spread of PCs.

Your system

How did you find The City?

Anything else we should know?Optional. Experience testing other games, what you would most like to see in a city builder, when you usually play.

I will share with discretion.I will try to avoid posting videos, screenshots or game-breaking bugs from test builds online, and I will never share the game itself or my Steam key. I can talk about the game with my own audiences. I am 18 or older.

We keep your answers only to choose and contact play testers. See the privacy policy.