The France board: build your towers, collect rent, take stations
Updated October 27, 2026
In Towndom, the stock market has a board. The map of France is cut into its departments, every town you buy becomes a piece, and each piece grows into a tower the more you invest. Here is how the board works, from floors to stations to chill mode.
Towndom is a game: the currency is 100% fictional and nothing can be won or withdrawn for real. This guide is not investment advice.
What is the Towndom board, and what sits behind it?
The board is the map of France, drawn department by department. A department is an administrative division, a bit like a county, and the board has 96 of them. The board shows them with today’s trend as a tint, and your pieces sit on the towns you hold. Yours are gold. Rivals’ pieces stay violet.
Tap a department and the map zooms into its towns, with filters and the mayorships you could still take. Overseas territories get their own strip.
The board is the overview, and the pages behind it hold the detail. A town page shows the price, the chart, today’s change, your piece and its floor, and a button to place a piece. A department page shows its market cap, a mini-board of its towns, “Top today” and “Biggest fall” cards, and filters by market cap.
It is a handy way to hunt for your next town. Open a department you do not know yet, scan its cards, and decide which town deserves a piece.
How do floors work?
A piece grows as you invest in its town, like a tower in a board game. The thresholds are fixed:
- Floor 1 from €100 invested.
- Floor 2 from €300 invested.
- Floor 3 from €600 invested.
- Floor 4 from €1,000 invested.
What do floors pay?
Each floor you reach in a town pays rent in play money every day: €1 for floor 1, up to €4 for floor 4. If you are the town’s mayor, the rent is doubled, so a floor-4 tower pays €8 a day. At most 20 towns count, and rent is collected when you open the app, with a maximum of 3 days of backlog.
A tower’s floor depends on the amount you invested, not on the market value of the shares. That means a tower does not lose a floor because the price falls.
Rent is a gift, not a gain. Like the daily chest, it goes into your treasury but is left out of your percentage gain and every ranking, so it never gives you an advantage in a league.
Who are the violet rivals?
The violet pieces are other players’ towers. Some of them are managed by the server, which keeps the board alive even when few people are online. They take floors and mayorships and bid on stations, but they are tuned to be beatable: cautious, slow and predictable, and they mostly play near their own region.
The rule behind this is that nothing you do in Towndom depends on another human being online. You buy and sell against the market, never against a player, so the game works at any hour with any number of players.
What are stations?
In the monthly season, 22 real stations, grouped into 4 rail networks, are put up for auction on the first of the month. Each station pays its owner a daily toll, and the toll grows with the number of stations you hold in the same network, up to five times as much for a complete network. Anyone can buy a station back from its owner at 50% above the last price paid. A rail strike cuts the toll.
Stations exist only in the season, since each one has a single owner. Chill mode has none.
How do you customize your pieces, and what is chill mode?
You can change the look of your pieces, your flag, your board theme and your avatar frame. These are cosmetic and only affect what you see: your rivals’ pieces stay violet whatever you choose. Appearances are bought with écus, a comfort currency, or earned along the seasonal road book.
If you prefer to play without the competition, chill mode gives you your own board. It never resets and has no rankings or rivals. The goal is to color in all 96 départements by holding at least one tower in each, with rewards at 5, 10, 20, 40, 60 and 96. A weekly travel log gives you three goals you can always complete alone.
The mayor guide shows how to turn a piece into a title.
How does the monthly season use the board?
In the competitive mode, the board is renewed one month at a time. On the first of every month everything resets and you start again with €2,000, plus an inheritance based on how the previous month went. The richest player at the end of the month wins the season, and your fortune counts your cash, the value of your towns and the value of your stations.
What you keep for good is what makes the game feel like progress: your level and XP, badges, trophies, titles, appearances and the record of the mayorships you held. The inheritance can never be bought.
It is a good reason to treat the board as something you rebuild each month with a new plan, while chill mode stays there as the board that never resets.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the board show?
- The map of France cut into its departments. Your pieces appear in gold on the towns you hold and rivals’ pieces in violet. You can tap a department to zoom into its towns.
- How many floors can a piece have, and what do they cost?
- Four floors. They start at €100, €300, €600 and €1,000 invested in the town, in play money.
- Do floors pay anything?
- Yes, a small daily rent in play money, from €1 to €4 a day per tower, doubled if you are the town’s mayor. It is a gift: it does not count in rankings.
- Is there a board without rivals?
- Yes, chill mode. It is your own France, never reset, with no rankings, where you collect all 96 départements at your own pace.