Welcome to Grid Town! Alpha
Hi there! Welcome to Grid Town, a new town with new residents moving in every day. Your job is to build the town's energy grid and keep the lights on as the town grows, doing your best to use sustainable energy sources to reduce pollution. Good luck!
- Commercial & industrial buildings: shops, factories, and data centers now move into the town on their own and pay you for the power you keep flowing to them. Full game mode only for now.
- New ways to build: hydro dams along the river, plus Power Purchase Agreements that add clean power for each new business.
- Daily Grid polish: the forecast now tells you the truth about how tough a day really plays, and more.
- Smoother on mobile: twist two fingers to rotate the view, with touch and sound fixes.
Developed by Trevor Hinkle
© 2026 Trevor Hinkle (Lighthouse Studio) · All rights reserved
🔨 Build Power Sources
Your cursor starts in inspect mode: hover a house, plant, or line to see what it's doing. To build:
- Pick a source: press its number key 1–5 or click it in the build guide on the right.
- Click a tile near homes. The green lines show which homes it reaches.
- Press Esc or right-click to go back to inspecting.
Build on open ground only, not water, houses, or roads. And good operators pause to plan: Space stops the clock, building doesn't.
📊 Read the Control Room
The bottom strip is your control room. Two panels run it.
📅 TODAY (center) is your day at a glance: the colored mountain is the power you're making, the white line is what the town needs, hour by hour. Keep the mountain above the line; a red gap means homes go dark. It also runs ahead to tonight's 19:00 dinner rush, and a chip spells out how short you'll be and what covers it: batteries or gas.
💰 MONEY (right) shows your net income per second: what lit homes pay, minus upkeep and gas fuel. When it dips below the line, your costs are outrunning your income. Catch it there before your balance feels it.
One more thing: demand keeps rising as the town grows and homes electrify. A grid that's enough today won't be enough next week.
🏭 Two Ways to Lose
Pollution: gas is cheap and runs anytime, but it pollutes. Lean on it too hard and emissions hit the cap: game over. Bankruptcy: every plant costs upkeep for as long as it stands, so an overbuilt grid bleeds cash even when idle. Let your balance sit in the red and it's over too. Grow fast, but don't choke the town or overbuild.
🏆 How to Win: Sustainable City
Run a real town entirely on clean power. You reach a ⭐ Sustainable City when you hold all of this for 90 seconds:
- 50 homes powered
- no homes going dark: the grid keeps up all night
- no gas burning: sun, wind, nuclear & batteries only
- enough always-on backup for the peak: nuclear, batteries, or a gas reserve that could ride out a windless night