
Dive into the wild west as a saloon owner with this Free Prologue version of Deadwater Saloon. Customize your character and face the consequences of your choices as you forge friendships and enemies of townsfolk, travellers, outlaws and lawmen all while building your saloon business.
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This is a free introductory version of the full-game Deadwater Saloon. Play the first month-and-a-half of the in-game time, build your saloon, and watch and interact with the town as it starts to grow.
Playing as a rich and dynamic character in the old west, you will be able to fully customize your attributes to fit your playstyle, such as Mixology, Seduction, and Sneakiness. You will manage your life as well as your saloon, such as maintaining your reputation and getting married. You will struggle with the effects of disease, aging, sanity, and addictions.
Provide travellers with a distinct drink parlour, gaining legendary stories to regale and build your legend. Interact with townspeople as they populate the town, forging friendships with blacksmiths, sheriffs, and preachers, romance prospective partners, or blackmail, abduct, and murder those who threaten you.
Build your saloon from the ground up. Expand the walls, build bordellos, opium dens, high stakes gambling rooms, and railed porches. Buy and place spittoons, tables, chairs, handcrafted bars, pianos, chandeliers, and diamond dust mirrors.
Thrive within a complex economy system, stockpiling booze, food, guns, and opium. Research a diverse array of drinks and foods to serve customers. Hire and manage staff from within the town populace, including barkeeps, cooks, servers, prostitutes, croupiers, pianists and bouncers. Help them reach their full potential, or fire and replace them with those more skilled.
Start with a strip of land and watch as a western town builds up around you, bringing in a myriad of citizens and businesses.
Face the forces of nature, meddlesome customers, firebrand Preachers, rival outlaw gangs, and much more. At some point, you will be tested by stronger and more formidable nemesis in longer event chains. Whatever you choose, you will face the consequences of your choices. The frontier is an unforgiving place.

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Languages: English**languages with full audio support
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Nice little economy game. The two keys at the beginning are manage your: Budget: buy what you can fill/use (but I buy a quality bar for the long haul), hire cheap workers until you are settled. Stress: do NOT overuse the action points (failures cause added stress), get a dog/pig, close when very few customers or when the saloon reputation is recovering from a fight
Interesting game and I couldn't find who is the fugitive and seriously everyoone in the town is being sus against me
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I had fun playing Deadwater Saloon Prologue i did not experience any problem with this game.
After trying this, I was intrigued and considered buying it. It's just the tip of the iceberg, I thought. However, after reading comments and reviews, I found out it's the whole iceberg. So I passed on it, as there was just too little content.
Great little game, well worth the purchase price.
Recommending this game only because of the promising good looks and anticipated story design. for me it's not ready yet. The keyboard does not re-set accurately, the screen moves too fast and jerky and the Tutorial was difficult top follow. I want to play this game so I will follow it and keep re-trying as updates fix the issues; but not now.
It's enetraning
This review is for the Prologue only, so bear this in mind. I've seen a lot of negative reviews complaining about people moving into town and not liking them, not being able to pass skill checks, and not being able to progress. Well, there are ways around all of this as I have made two very successful runs from the prologue play through with two very different characters. Having success in skill checks; to win people over and for the random events, is specializing in specific skills that deal with these things. You can max out your starting abilities (to 50) in several categories if you spec your character correctly. A couple of hints here: Leadership, Muscle, Seduction, Savoir Faire. Use your first couple of days to set up your saloon properly. Research the first level of booze and food. Cozy up to the trapper because that will reduce your purchase prices. Auto restock things when they run low so you don't have to waste an action point doing it manually. Build a bordello and a bar. Hire appropriate staff for the bordello and the bar (the "lady of the night," a bartender, and a server), build a storage container, and buy a safe. Build up some income, expand. It is really quite simple once you understand what you need to do.
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