
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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It's enetraning
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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Hours played at review time, across 40 reviews with recorded playtime.
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I had fun playing Deadwater Saloon Prologue i did not experience any problem with this game.
A fun saloon building game with resource management and community relations with events that spice up the game.
not good its rather boreing game and money isnt good so overall very bad
What a fun game. I has a Red Dead Redemption feel to it, down to having the pigs sort out bodies for you. It's funny, has the western grit vibe and the look is cute. How long you'll play this before you're bored is hard to say. I did get a bit frustrated with the small amount of action points you get and once they are up, you kinda just sit there staring at the town going about their lives until the points refill again. Overall I've played this demo a few times now, died a lot because of stress (even in my games I'm overworked man) and I keep coming back for more. This is on my To Buy list for 2025 for sure.
Played the whole prologue and I was pretty entertained. If you like management games this one is for you. I really enjoyed seeing the town grow, building, and creating a prostitute !! The variety of items you can sell is also pretty detailed. So many recipes to unlock!!! I was really struggling to make connections between workers and keeping the stress down on the owner. Couldn't figure out if the dog was useless or not? Good game though!
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
Tried to play Demo however you can't tell if game is worth buying. Demo says you can't build anything other than 3 things and you can't do anything other than hire. That's it. Not worth downloading if you can't get a sense of it. Looks like a bad version of SIMS from SIM 2.0 or earlier. Since you can't demo it properly who's to say otherwise. Looks like people like it. I give it a pass from what I noticed many many games cheaper and do same thing.
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