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Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game

96% positive of 80 Steam reviews

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Released
2023
Steam Deck
Not tested
Platforms
Steam

Made by Calamity Bay Games.

About the game

A story-driven Survival/ Farm RPG about learning to live after loss. Explore 7 emotional story arcs tackling love, grief, purpose & struggle of many kinds. Farm, Forage, Hunt and Craft to endure the deserts of 1860's Oregon (on casual/ challenge). Walk the path from mere survival to something more.

Tagged by players

  • Farming Sim
  • Narrative
  • Life Sim
  • Historical
  • Dialogue Heavy
  • Romance
  • Base Building
  • Crafting
  • Old School
  • Survival
  • Isometric
  • Hand-drawn

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What players say

  • Recommended
    This is a farming sim first, a story about your relationship with your sibling second, and a romantic visual novel third. I don't say that to imply I'm unhappy- I specifically bought the game for the grumpy brother energy and the hugs. It's to set your expectations about what you'll be doing most of your time in this game. I played the sister, Aine, and romanced Prince Laan and he was a tall beautiful blushing…

    24 h played when written. 36 found it helpful.

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  • Recommended
    A unique setting for a harvest moon-adjacent game, Veil of Dust tells the tale of Aine and Shane Callahan, Irish immigrants to the Americas in the 1800s. The game initially looks to be just an older style harvest moon where you follow the story of the impoverished siblings and attempt to help them flourish, but we quickly come to see that, at least in Aine's release story, a great deal of the plot revolves around…

    10 h played when written. 19 found it helpful.

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  • Not recommended
    Overall, an interesting story to follow with good cutscene dialogues, but not good enough to overcome its shortcomings. However it has too many gripes to recommend: - the game encourages you to talk often to characters, yet almost all day to day dialogues are repeated since game start with no regard to story events. This ensures that any new interesting dialogues you get every 20 days (rough count) gets buried under…

    12 h played when written. 9 found it helpful.

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