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The Piper of Dawn

84% positive of 619 Steam reviews

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Released
2026
Steam Deck
Playable
Platforms
Steam

Made by Bone Nail. Published by Bone Nail, 2P Games.

About the game

Grow magical crops—and your own workforce. Run an alchemy shop in a city trapped in a time loop, forge bonds with humans and non-humans, and shape its fate. A dark fantasy management sim with branching stories and multiple endings.

Tagged by players

  • Shop Keeper
  • Fishing
  • Farming Sim
  • Lovecraftian
  • Capitalism
  • Base Building
  • Dating Sim
  • Resource Management
  • Lore-Rich
  • JRPG
  • Multiple Endings
  • Visual Novel

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What players say

  • Not recommended
    Languages/Translation: (--) I have to put this on top because the English translation seems to be mostly AI making some dialogues make zero sense, for a VN this is just sad. Gameplay: (-) If you're looking for a farming sim I wouldn't recommend this game. It's not great at it. (-) The Alchemy system are pretty much a mess (or I'm just bad), the guide are unclear and you need specific ingredient to progress and make…

    15 h played when written. 15 found it helpful.

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  • Not recommended
    The farming sim and shop keeper tag are misleading, it's mostly just a visual novel. I bought this game so I could build up a pretty farm and shop, build relationships with characters and do alchemy but all of the progress you make goes away as soon as you reach an ending, which means starting over from scratch. I don't wanna play a game, try to build something nice looking and lose it all. If there was a feature…

    2.5 h played when written. 10 found it helpful.

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