Lucas & Thomas: Little Workers

Lucas and Thomas are two little workers who got jobs at a construction site, helping make their city more beautiful.
They sort crates for a new park, then new workers arrive to unpack playgrounds, fountains and more.

The city was built around them. There is a beach and an ocean, islands and boats, mountains and a waterfall. People board buses for work, cars wait in traffic, cyclists pass by, and dogs walk with their owners. Cats, raccoons, squirrels and birds share the streets. Street musicians play while kids kick a soccer ball. Switch the camera, look around in first-person view, and watch city life unfold.

Morning brings a sunrise. At sunset, the sun slips below the horizon like a Hawaiian sunset, and a green flash appears. Switch the clock to real time at night, and the stars and the Milky Way appear exactly where they are right now over San Francisco. A beautiful downtown skyline rises in the distance, with views stretching to the horizon.

Lei is never far away. She always brings the brothers something to eat. Sometimes she hugs them, spreads a picnic cloth and turns the break into a picnic.

Then it is back to work. Push crates onto the right spots, one crate at a time. You can push, never pull. There is no move limit, and you can restart any time. Press Undo to call Brother's help: the other brother takes back crate pushes or rewinds a crate out of a dead end. In Build your city, help is unlimited while there are moves to undo. In Five-minute rush, it can be used five times a day.

The puzzles grow harder as the brothers gain experience. There are six difficulty levels, from First steps for age 3 to Professor, with 12x12 boards and 10 crates for grown-up puzzle fans. New levels unlock as you solve puzzles on the one before, and every puzzle is pre-checked to be solvable. Promotions bring new job titles from Intern to Chief Engineer and new work outfits on both brothers' portraits.

There are two modes: Build your city, solo or together on the same home Wi-Fi, and Five-minute rush. In solo play, each puzzle earns 1 to 3 stars, and there are badges to collect.

In Build your city, each solved puzzle becomes a finished park. The gate opens and your hero walks toward the next courtyard, waiting at the crosswalk until cars stop at the red light.

Two players can build the city together on two devices on the same home Wi-Fi network, one as Lucas and one as Thomas. Match four symbols on both screens to connect. Solo play works offline.

Your Builder Card shows your hero, job title and solved puzzles, and can be saved as a picture or shared. The main game screens are in 19 languages, and original music was written for the game.

The game began with a dad and his five-year-old son. The boy's parents gave him a camera that came with a crate-pushing puzzle game. The boy loved it, but one wrong move could wipe out the progress he had made through seven or eight levels. There was no Undo. So his dad made a game where a mistake could become one step back instead of starting over. His son joined in, and together they built a town from little pieces of places their family had lived and traveled. The very first version of this game is still included as a playable extra.