A 1930s harbour city you can explore
Walk it. Hail a cab. Catch the streetcar.
A whole art deco city in one little file.
Actual gameplay · Port Solace at golden hour
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Thirty seconds, captured in the game.
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Welcome to Port Solace, chartered 1851
It is autumn, 1936, and the city is dressed up for Harbour Days. Catch a picture at the Paragon, order pie at the Starlite, watch the board flip at Union Terminal, then ride the streetcar down to the boardwalk as the neon comes on.
And the whole place is alive. Crowds on the sidewalks, 162 residents with names and something to say, cabs at the kerb and a streetcar that keeps its timetable.
Port Solace from aboveTen art deco towers, a domed City Hall, a movie palace, a department store, a radio station, a museum with a dinosaur and 60 family homes. Walk in and look around. The booths are set, the shelves are stocked and the band is playing.
Three ways around town
On footStroll the avenues with the crowds, then step inside. The diner, the bank, the movie palace, the jazz club and the family homes all have their doors open. Press E to chat with whoever you meet.
Every other window has a story behind it.
Take a cabThree cab companies, delivery vans, streamliner sedans and a double-decker bus. Hop into any parked car and cruise past the towers, the theatres and the harbour.
The meter is on the house.
Ride the streetcarA green and cream streetcar runs the Harbour Loop through six stops, sparking on the overhead wire. Board at any stop and ride along, then press C to change your view.
Fare five cents. Children three.
Hundreds of people walk the sidewalks, wait at the lights and window-shop on Grand Avenue. Clerks work the counters, couples dance in the Grand Solace ballroom and the diner fills up at lunch.
Pigeons scatter when you walk up, gulls wheel over the harbour and the flags snap in the wind off the water.
Time passes as you play. Golden hour on the towers, a pink sunset over the harbour, then lit windows, glowing marquees and headlights on Grand Avenue. Speed the clock up or pause it whenever you like.
The fun is in the details
Every room is furnished, every shop is stocked with its own trade, and there’s always one more door to try.
Chrome stools, a checkerboard floor and a counter full of regulars. Pie is ten cents and the coffee never stops.
A jazz club with red booths, a band on the stand and a crowd that stays until the lights come up.
A vaulted hall with benches full of travellers and a departures board that flips as trains come and go.
A coffered banking hall with brass teller cages, chandeliers and the great round vault door standing open.
Red carpet up the grand staircase, a gallery overhead, a ballroom with dancing couples and rooms upstairs.
Walls of records in bright sleeves, a listening counter and the latest radio sets. Every shop is stocked with its own trade.
A wall of little lit windows full of pie and sandwiches, and a lunch crowd at the tables.
Green lamps over green felt, and somebody always lining up a shot after dark.
Rowboats and swans on Swan Lake, a bandshell, a carousel, a roller rink and red and gold trees everywhere.
Every screenshot on this page is captured in the game. Select one for a closer look.
The Harbour Loop runs past Old Town, the harbour, the theatres, Union Terminal, the towers and City Hall. The streetcar rings its bell and waits for anyone on the tracks.
Old Town · Harbour · Paragon · Terminal · Tower · City HallActual gameplay
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The streetcar is boarding
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