Prosperity

Prosperity is dSolver's city-building incremental, released on Steam under the Persera Software Inc. name on May 28th, 2018, and still playable free on the web at prosperity-web.dsolver.ca. It is the fourth dSolver entry in this index after Click, Click, Wroom! and Game Development Sucks (Money), and the most traditional of the bunch: a town that grows only if its systems stay fed. The developer describes it as deep, story-driven, and full of colourful NPCs, and the wiki row still lists it as beta.

What the loop feels like

You zone a block, the block pays taxes, and the taxes zone the next block. Early on the whole town fits on one screen and every decision is visible: this farm feeds these houses, those houses staff this building, that building unlocks the next tier. That's Prosperity.

You come back the next day and the town has outgrown your mental model. There are more variables than you remember zoning, an NPC has something to say about the land, and the budget is quietly tighter than you left it. You rebalance one resource chain, watch three others sag, and settle in for an evening of civic triage. That's Prosperity.

How it actually works

The structure is resource management first and clicking second. Buildings produce, consume and unlock in interlocking chains, so growth is a matter of keeping production ahead of population and spending the surplus on the next unlock. The strategic layer is where the game tries to be more than a spreadsheet: narrative beats arrive through the NPCs, and the intended experience is reading the land and choosing what kind of city it becomes rather than maxing a single number. Because everything routes through the budget, every decision is ultimately an allocation problem, which is exactly the loop dSolver has been refining across all of their games.

The web build and the Steam build are the same game at heart, with Steam adding the convenience of cloud saves and a library entry for the price of admission. Both channels remain live and reachable today, which is more than can be said for most city idlers of the same vintage.

Where it stumbles

The beta label is doing real work. Systems overlap faster than the interface explains them, and a player who misses one dependency can stall a town for an in-game year without understanding why. The art is 2D and serviceable, the story beats are pleasant rather than gripping, and the pacing assumes you enjoy long arcs of quiet accumulation. Against a modern city-builder like Desktopia: A Desktop Village Simulator it looks sparse; against a pure idle like City Inc it demands more attention than the genre usually asks for. It sits in the middle of the road, and some players will find that the least comfortable place to be.

Playing it today

Free on the web build, which was verified live at research time, or paid on Steam for Windows and Mac with the official header and screenshots preserved above. The developer remains reachable through the game's own subreddit, a rarity this far past release. If the town loop hooks you, Holyday City: Reloaded takes the same growth fantasy in a looser, flashier direction.

The verdict

A thoughtful, unhurried city-builder idle that trusts you to read its systems, still standing on both of its platforms seven years on. Beta or not, the bones are sound, and the taxes always come due.