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CraftCraft: Fantasy Merchant Simulator

CraftCraft is a narrative-heavy RPG sim with hands on forging and jewelry making! Create a pretty tiara for a mermaid or a sword made of dragon blood! Be a Moth or a Cat and express your creativity in your cozy crafting studio and change the lives of locals in the mysterious port town of Windspell.

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Developer
Placeholder Gameworks, Pineapple Works
Publisher
Placeholder Gameworks, Hawthorn Games
Release
May 29, 2025
1 year and 65 days ago
Steam Reviews
Very Positive595 reviews82.2%

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About the Game

CraftCraft is made by a small fully indie studio who made Death and Taxes.

✧ Become a jeweler or a smith in a quaint port town.

✧ Create a moth / elf / cat character!

✧ Meet a lot of different folks and impact their lives. Your choices matter!

✧ Have a cute owlcat as a pet.

✧ Relax and craft!

✧ Make shiny stuff. ✧ ⋆ ˙

✧ Make even MORE shiny stuff. ⋆ ˙ ✧ + *  ˙

✧ Make less shiny and more ominous stuff. 

Includes:

✧ Full voice acting

✧ Short branching story spanning 11 in game days. About 5-8 hours to finish the game once. (+ a non-story endless mode)

✧ Replayability (multiple backgrounds with unique characters tied to it, some random scavangables and multiple endings).

✧ Original soundtrack using real folk instruments!

✧ Completely unique crafting simulation

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