
Dawnmaker is a turn-based city building and deckbuilding game, made by 2 strategy fans. It feels like playing a solo board game. Build luminous cities, optimize your deck and create powerful combinations between buildings and cards to bring life back to a dead world. Play the demo now!
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Dawnmaker is a solo strategy game combining elements of city building and deck building to create a board game-like experience. In a world covered by a toxic Smog, only you can rekindle the ancient lighthouses and bring light and life back. Construct buildings, gain new cards, generate resources and improve your central lighthouse to unlock new building space.

Optimize your deck — Gain increasingly powerful cards as you improve your city. Your cards and buildings interact in various ways: choose them wisely to create the most powerful combinations!
Build efficient cities — Make the best of your limited space by optimally positioning your buildings. Improve your lighthouse to repel the Smog and expand your city.
Manage your resources — Grow farms, build industries, develop science and inspire your people to create the rarest of resources: Eclairium!

Reclaim the lost continent — The continent of Heksiga has been covered by a toxic Smog. Repair and improve magical lighthouses to repel that Smog and reclaim the land, region by region.
Recover lost technologies — Explore vestiges of the old Empire and rediscover technologies that were lost to the Smog.

Hi, we're Adrian and Alexis! We founded Arpentor Studio, a cooperative company, to create deep strategy games. Dawnmaker is our first commercial game. If you want to get involved, give us feedback on the game or help our small studio spread the word about Dawnmaker, please join our discord!
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Languages: English*, French, Japanese*languages with full audio support
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Turn based strategy game and deck building. Takes a minute to get the hang of, but it's exactly what I need when it comes to a chill strategy game. The demo was sick!
Great game, just hope there will be more updates soon
super jeu . on ne voit pas le temps passer et la prise en main est assez rapide .
Great puzzle/strategy game. An endless mode would be great.
Unfortunately, there are severe performance issues on macOS.
https://youtu.be/RVd2IrghzQA Difficulty may be a bit tightly tuned but the 4x deck builder has some interesting hooks to bring players in with.
While it is a nice little puzzle/resource management game, I can't really recommend it. There isn't a lot of content, and you're probably tired out in 5-10 hours. The gameplay is repetitive and what's on offer here is of lower quality than what this genre generally has to offer.
I completed one full playthrough in about 5 hours during an evening. Got to the last level, having failed about half the previous missions because of RNG. Failed the final mission as well because of RNG not giving me enough VP awarding cards quickly enough. Feels like 5 hours of my life wasted. Mechanically, this feels like it's still in alpha despite the graphics being quite good. Needs music as well. Got bored just hearing the same sfx over and over again.
Really interesting game - a great combination of deck and world building! Once you figure out the best card and building choices and combinations it becomes a great play. Definitely worth the money!
Simplistic and repetitive. Should have been a board game.
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