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Rosewater

A thrilling Western adventure in the alternate 19th century world of Lamplight City! Embark on a harrowing journey across the frontier with Harley Leger and her ragtag posse, encountering bandits, rebels, visionaries, eccentrics, and many more friends and foes on your quest for fame and riches.

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Developer
Grundislav Games
Publisher
Application Systems Heidelberg
Release
March 27, 2025
1 year and 127 days ago
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Very Positive408 reviews92.2%

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About the Game

It's been several years since Harley Leger left New Bretagne and headed west, hoping to leave the past behind and make her way as a freelance writer. After arriving in the sleepy border town of Rosewater, a seemingly trivial assignment for the local paper leads to the hunt for a missing man's fortune—and the story of the century.

Harley and her ragtag posse embark on a harrowing journey across Western Vespuccia, encountering bandits, rebels, visionaries, eccentrics, and many more friends and foes on their quest for fame and riches.

  • A thrilling treasure hunt with 5 travel companions. Choices matter, relationships with your companions affect the trajectory of the story.

  • Inventory is back, but logical, streamlined, and easy to use—no banging things together to see what sticks. Many situations have multiple solutions based on play style.

  • Randomized encounter storylets on your journey, with different situations and outcomes that depend on your previous choices and available resources.

  • Fully rotoscoped animations and cinematic closeups emphasize the action.

  • High resolution 1280x720 graphics (yes, that's 720p!)

  • Full music score by Lamplight City composer Mark Benis, featuring live instruments.

  • Meet over 60 characters, voiced by a star-studded cast of professional voice actors including Cissy Jones (Firewatch, Call of the Sea) Dave Fennoy (The Walking Dead) Roger Clark (Red Dead Redemption 2) and many more!

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