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Dragon Ridge Valley

Leave the modern world behind and begin again in a cozy fantasy shopkeeping RPG. Stock shelves, serve customers, craft valuable goods, and grow a humble market stall into a thriving shop. Explore the valley, build relationships, and fight back against growing threats.

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Elven Vale Studios
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Elven Vale Studios
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About the Game

A fantasy life—and a business of your own

Leave the modern world behind and begin again in Valeheart Village. Dragon Ridge Valley is a single-player cozy fantasy shopkeeping RPG where you can build a new life, grow a business, craft valuable goods, form relationships, and explore a beautiful—but dangerous—magical valley.

Build your business

Begin with a humble market stall and work toward owning a permanent shop. Acquire your business license, purchase your property, and expand your shop through multiple upgrade levels.

Manage limited business inventory, transfer products into storage, and decide which goods to stock. Products placed into your business appear visibly on your shelves and displays. Open during market hours, serve customers, collect copper, silver, and gold, and reinvest your earnings into larger businesses and new opportunities.

Find, craft, and stock your goods

Gather ingredients, grow crops, mine ore, forage, cook meals, craft equipment and jewelry, trade with merchants, and recover valuable items while adventuring.

Item quality affects the value of your goods, while magical jewelry can provide buffs, blessings, and other useful effects. Decide what to keep for yourself and what belongs on your shop shelves.

Live in Valeheart Village

Create your character, purchase homes, and become part of a living medieval fantasy community. Meet villagers with their own routines and stories, build friendships, pursue romance, and make choices that shape your relationships.

Explore beyond the market

Travel beyond Valeheart’s warm, lantern-lit streets into forests, mines, forgotten ruins, and dangerous underground locations. Hunt, fight hostile creatures, discover rare resources, and uncover the mysteries surrounding the dragons of the valley.

Key features

  • Own and operate a market stall and permanent shop

  • Manage business storage, limited stock, and shelf displays

  • Serve customers and earn copper, silver, and gold

  • Upgrade your shop and purchase additional properties

  • Craft, cook, farm, mine, forage, and trade

  • Discover items with different quality levels and magical effects

  • Build friendships and romantic relationships

  • Explore peaceful and dangerous fantasy regions

  • Customize your character and choose how to build your new life

Dragon Ridge Valley is actively being developed as a long-term solo passion project. Features, presentation, and content may continue to evolve as the valley grows.

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