An official website of the Department of Public Works. The town is not real. City Services is a video game.
Road advisory: A sinkhole has opened on the green by Grand Avenue. It is a real hole. Please do not fall in it.
Welcome
City Services is a co-op game for 1 to 6 players. You and your friends are the town's public works crew: dispatch calls in a pothole, a fallen tree or a couch on the curb, and you pile into the truck and try to sort it out before the clock runs down.
Every job pays wages, faster work pays more, and anything the crew breaks is deducted before payday. A slip under the clock shows take-home pay ticking down as things get hit. Wreck enough of the town and the crew finishes the shift owing the city money.
The clipboard now says who broke what, pins up photos of the worst moments, and keeps a crew record. The crew roster keeps count of Days Without an Incident. It is usually zero.
Expired milk, a sidewalk hot dog, a gas station taco and a bench burger have turned up beside benches and bus shelters. Vending machines spill their stock when the truck hits them. Side effects now include blurry vision, controls that run backwards, butterfingers and dizziness. Food thrown at a coworker's face gets eaten.
Dispatch gives thirty seconds' warning before the supervisor walks over. Anything broken while they watch is billed twice. Each worker is also handed a secret side gig at the start of a shift, like honking fifteen times or breaking $1,500 of city property. The clipboard reveals them all at the end.
Canal Street, Pawn Row, the Mega Mall and Harbor Drive are now inside city limits as far as Crew 12 is concerned. Four calls have moved up there, which means longer drives and more things to hit on the way.
The first call up there was a couch on Canal Street. The town is bigger. The truck is the same size.
A county fair truck lost its back gate in the Mega Mall car park. The crew herded a cow, a sheep, a pig and a goat into a pen. Somebody named the goat, so that's settled.
Gary is a traffic cone with googly eyes. He lives at the yard and rides in the truck. At the end of every shift the clipboard reports whether he made it home, got left on a street somewhere, or met the chainsaw.
Every dent shows up on screen with a price, and a gentle tap costs less than a full-speed hit. A fire truck is $6,000. The roundabout fountain is $5,000. A newspaper box is $70. Dispatch adds that the mayor has been informed, and the mayor is not laughing. Go far enough over budget and the crew gets a Notice of Disciplinary Action.
The truck is restocked with snacks before every call. Reported side effects include jumping like you're on the moon, a much bigger head, and one long burp. The mystery donut remains a mystery.
Workers can pick up members of the public and throw them, and they go floppy when they land. After twenty of them get bowled over in one shift, they form a committee and the supervisor sends everyone home.
Dispatch described the dumpster behind the Pawn Row shops as overflowing, which it called a generous word. The crew pulled out the big stuff, bagged the rest, stomped it down and got the lid closed. The raccoons are unofficial crew members and were allowed to stay.
The letters change by hand every few minutes. This week: Gone with the Wind (The Bins) and Fast & Furious: Parking Enforcement. Next week, Pothole 2: The Deepening. Seat 4F is still broken.
The chainsaw is for fallen trees. It also works on cones, benches and anything else you hold still long enough. The department has one chainsaw and would like to keep it that way.
Department directory. Lines are staffed Monday to Friday, 8:00 to 4:30, closed 12 to 1 for lunch and whenever the truck is out.
| Issue | Contact | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Bugs & problems with the game | [email protected] | This one is real. Tell us your version, Mac or Windows, and what happened. |
| Dispatch (non-emergency) | 555-0112 | Ask for Crew 12. There is only Crew 12. |
| Potholes | 555-0140 | If it already has a name, please say so. |
| Fallen trees & utility poles | 555-0141 | The pole is not light. |
| Furniture left on the curb | 555-0143 | That's the whole emergency. |
| Lost cones | 555-0148 | If it has eyes, that's Gary. Do not saw. |
| Bowled over by a worker | 555-0150 | A committee has been formed. |
| Supervisor | 555-0199 | Please don't. |
CSTV 12 · Public Access
A minute of the crew at work, narrated by Dispatch for the public record. Every couch in this footage was carried by two qualified employees.
Changes adopted by the department, newest first.
Shout into your mic and the town reacts, snacks put a squeak or a wobble in your voice, and you can ride in the wheelbarrow, a shopping cart or a wheelie bin until a coworker tips you out. At the end of a shift the crew votes on who takes the fall (they wear the cone of shame all next shift), the results board saves as a picture to share, townsfolk film the chaos, and a big enough bill brings out the NEWS 4 van. The pothole is now a real hole in the road.
Two-person loads now take two people: a couch, a log or a utility pole dragged alone moves at a crawl and can't be sprinted home. Your service record, unlocks and achievement progress now live in a save file of their own, kept apart for each Steam account on a shared computer, and the drain in the works yard no longer sticks up out of the slab.
A truck driven into the canal can now be pulled straight back out, from the cab or from the bank, and one left stranded on its roof or in the water goes back on the road by itself. The pause menu and settings work fully on a gamepad, crews are harder to grief, the host can kick a coworker, and updates now only install if they're signed by us.
Full-game crews can now be six strong, with a second work truck waiting in the yard once a fifth worker clocks in (demo crews stay at four). Change your look at the new crew lockers in the yard, tip a loaded wheelie bin straight into the skip, and play online on about 40% less network traffic. Plus steadier controls and dozens of fixes from the latest playtests.
Shifts now run from morning to golden hour, with the streetlamps coming on for the drive back, and the town sounds alive: footsteps, birds, gulls by the harbour and rain when it rains. Big hits land harder, finished jobs pay out with a cheer and confetti, and the results board fills in line by line. Plus full gamepad menus, a pause that stops the clock when you play alone, steadier carrying and truck riding, smoother online sessions and dozens of fixes from playtesting.
More people about town: 144 townsfolk looks across every skin tone, and twice as many walkers. Carried things stay in your hands on every screen, two-person carries face each other instead of standing inside the couch, and truck-bed riders sit where they really are. Plus a Public Works sign for the yard, a busier mechanic, and fixes for the canal jetties, the fallen tree, potholes and the dumpster.
The download here is now a free demo: seven calls on the south side of town, 1 to 4 players. The full game is coming to Steam. New around town: stray cats and dogs to round up, holiday decorations, a compass in place of the minimap, consequences for doing a job out of order, roadwork crews, deeper puddles and spray-paint pings.
A stuck job can be called off from the pause menu (unpaid), and job items thrown across town find their way back. Riders stay in the truck bed when they hop, fewer phantom damage bills, a volume slider for each coworker, quieter horns, how-tos for every side gig, Gary counts as a cone, and fixes for the pothole patch, the hydrant drain and the dumpster.
The crew gets paid, and damages come out of it. Damage prices cut by about four, and taps cost less than crashes. The results show who broke what, photos of the shift's big moments and a crew record. Secret side gigs, a supervisor who drops in, street food with bad side effects, feeding coworkers, music, and fixes for the window mode menu and things left in the road.
The north side is open (Canal Street, Pawn Row, the Mega Mall and Harbor Drive), and four calls moved up there. Floppy bodies and knockouts, a live damage bill, one clipboard per crew, fountains and phone booths to crash into, snacks, Gary, an emote wheel, and the title screen now offers new versions itself.
A full settings screen (display, graphics, separate volumes, sensitivity, field of view), key rebinding, a mic test, and a version check when joining. Late arrivals spawn by the truck, lost tools get tagged, first-time tips, and F12 screenshots.
Fixes from the first two-player shift: joining players can drive a loaded truck, higher jumps into the truck bed, calls spread around town, sharper name tags, and the end-of-shift screen fits wide monitors.
Voice settings on the title screen. The truck now only flings people it actually hits. Fixes for playing again after a shift.
Online play with crew codes, proximity voice chat and the crew radio. Crew customization, traffic and pedestrians, four new jobs and optional chaos modifiers. Cleanup now has to be hauled back to the yard.
First playable build, LAN only.
Employment Opportunities
The demo is 7 calls on the south side of town, 1 to 4 players. The full game, with the whole town and all 22 calls, is coming to Steam. Wishlist it to hear when it's out.
It's an early build, so expect bugs. Report them to [email protected], where someone can actually fix them.