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Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.
Blacksmith Master is a strategy, simulation and management game
developed by Untitled Studio
and published by Hooded Horse.
Released on May 15th 2025 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux
in 17 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Czech, Polish, Russian, Hungarian, Ukrainian and Thai.
It has received 966 reviews of which 814 were positive and 152 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.0 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 14.99€ on Steam with a 25% discount, but you can find it for 8.47€ on Gamivo.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows® 10 (64-bit)
- Processor: Intel® Pentium® G3250 (dual-core) / AMD® FX-Series™ FX-8350 (quad-core)
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 650 (1 GB) / AMD® Radeon™ HD 7770 (1 GB)
- DirectX: Version 9.0
- Storage: 2 GB available space
MacOS
- OS: Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
- Processor: Intel® Pentium® G3250 (dual-core) / AMD® FX-Series™ FX-8350 (quad-core)
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 650 (1 GB) / AMD® Radeon™ HD 7770 (1 GB)
- Storage: 2 GB available space
Linux
- Processor: Intel® Pentium® G3250 (dual-core) / AMD® FX-Series™ FX-8350 (quad-core)
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 650 (1 GB) / AMD® Radeon™ HD 7770 (1 GB)
- Storage: 2 GB available space
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Forged in Fire lovers unite. We can now own and operate our own medieval smithy where we manage staff, process orders, buy goods, decorate and build the smithy of our dreams. The Story & Gameplay One of my favourite shows of all time is Forged in Fire. I have seen all the seasons, love all the judges and still get excited after ten years when Doug says “it will keal” (his famous catch phrase meaning Keep Everyone Alive). I ended up naming my smithy It Will Keal just for the hoot of it. I played Untitled Studio’s other game Tavern Master and thought it was a pretty good game so I was happy to see them take on the theme of a medieval smithy sim. ❗ Keep in mind in this game you manage your own smithy but you do not do any crafting yourself. It would be nice if it had both aspects but in this game you're simply the management. The gameplay has you managing your smithy by hiring workers, buying materials and in the beginning filling orders for merchants to make money and level up your workers. The tutorial is great, step-by-step instructions as you play. Everything in this game is unlocked by levelling up your shop and selling items to merchants (merchants sometimes reward blueprints and cosmetics). You cannot skip ahead and buy everything in one day, everything is earned by levelling up so at each level you have a sense of progression and objectives to aim for. It makes for satisfying gameplay to work towards unlocking the more elaborate items and materials as you play. There is a sandbox mode as well if you just want to get creative without getting progress locked. Settings & Features Settings & features include; Time format, language, quality, UI scaling, display mode, resolution, frame rate, VSync, audio controls, keyboard layout, and the ability to turn on or off icons and other indicators. The game also has a photo-mode for taking screencaps! ✨ The game auto saves but also has manual saves that you can name. Personal Wishlist * Let storage crates be accessible from both sides and make larger sizes (we have so many small chests all over the place-allow us to upgrade our chests). * More engagement with the workers besides them sitting on a bench at the end of the day (eating can give them temporary buffs for example) * Assign workers to specific stations (if they specialize in carpentry let us assign them to just those stations, why specialize if they do everything?) * The game can get overwhelming if you grow your smithy with multiple floors and have dozens of employees. You have to grow your smithy to a point as merchant orders get more demanding the higher level you go. So keeping a balance as you progress can be a challenge. The Visuals & Audio The game is primarily a top-down view but you can zoom right in to watch your workers hammering away or designing blueprints. The small details when you zoom in are really well done. Finishes like stone and wood look good and the lights give a nice warm glow to your smithy. There are even animations like steam and sparks coming off of your metal forge or steam rising up when you quench the hot blades. I took these pretty early on when my smithy was smaller, to show some of the up-close details. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3491086172 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3491084637 Overall Experience This game will give you a lot of hours for being in early access. Once you start making money and hiring more staff the game plays itself to a point where you can check in for upgrades (the game notifies you of any potential upgrades or workers that are ready to be levelled up). However it does get overwhelming at later stages with a whole host of employees to manage and none of them able to be assigned specific tasks (outside of the design person). However the game is in early access so a lot will change, including balancing and mechanics over time. I tend to keep my smithy on the smaller side (I have unlocked the second floor but have not built it yet). You can also dabble in the sandbox mode to just relax and create so you can have the freedom to do both. For me there is enough content to justify early access but take the pros and cons that others have reviewed and see if it is for you to jump in early. 🔨 [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/32732116-IndieGems/] Follow IndieGems for more reviews like this one. Please follow our curator page, [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/4680120/]Otome Lovers , if you'd like to see more reviews like this one!
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8/10 while trying to get 100%, i enjoyed the game first 10 hours and then afterwards, it became a bit repetitive. but good game overall.
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Full disclosure - I don't typically write reviews. I think I've done...five? Something like that. But I'm writing for this time because I see a lot of negative comments that are not justified. First thing - If you bought, played, liked Tavern Master, you will likely enjoy this one as well. It's not the same game per se - there are similarities in all shop games, however in this one you actually have a mine (several actually), and a forest that you own and will have workers there sending raw materials to the warehouse to the shop. First you start filling orders for goblets, weapons, what-have-you. Hire a handful of folks (don't go into too much debt (yes you can go into debt - I haven't gone bankrupt yet to see what happens but I'll let ya'll know if/when I do)). You can hire more people, fill more orders, then open your own little store in the corner to sell individual items as effectively a side-hustle (orders eventually rise to a hundred+ items that takes time to fulfill). As you master iron you gain the ability to make items with copper and silver, for more money. There's more but that's the basic idea. I've seen a lot of criticism in the reviews but I would urge everyone to do two things - First, consider this is Early Access. The Dev is responsive and checks what we put out, and has already started acting on feedback. In less than a week. That isn't common and should be commended. The second thing is that this "Indie Studio".......is one lonely dev. Have some patience folks. I can tell you, as a former software tester by profession, putting out any piece of software that is not a bug-ridden mess (which this is absolutely NOT!)....is a feat worthy of everyone's praise. The dev surely has mine, and I look forward to what's coming next. Cheers! C|_|
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I have spent 277 days in game and unlocked all 72 achievements so I think I will have a unique perspective on the early access. I was looking forward to this more compared to Doom the Dark Ages so yeah I spend some time with the game and I have some pointers for it and information for potential buyers and I will try to remain as objective as I can! Pros+ price you do not need a battle station to run it manually control a worker I did not come across bugs variety of items to craft at your shop (overall I think I counted 97 items) Cons - Merchant commissions lack variety (most are consisting of requiring wood + iron ingot/ steel ingot or copper ... I did not come across like a single silver or jewelry based item for that big cash reward so overall I kept shipping like 15 items again and again) In later game, you cannot set up zones and dedicate staff, this means that your production becomes bottle necked or your blacksmith and assistants work very inefficiently or you cannot set up like clay zone or wood work shop. Like 20 blacksmith trying to get iron ingot from one ingot storage, even if you put up smelters on different floors, rarely you will see the staff go there) You are unable to expand your iron/copper/silver mines (This means that especially later in game when you need a lot of Iron, your miners will keep mining but will not deposit the mined ore off the ground to be shipped.) This forced me to have to buy iron ore for smelting, I had no efficient space to place elevator to ship the goods, you just have to hope you get a good map seed but this sucks because half way through the day you run out of raw ingredient which you need 97% of all times while silver sits there and is just collecting dust) Weird crafting for your store... (So for some reason I had a massive full floor shop, yet the blacksmith refused to make wood based items like bows, it was more like they just tried crafting what ever was the last recipe I unlocked... this meant I had a s**t ton of silver just sitting by, and some items were never crafted, no matter what settings I applied to (like preference for crafting) Teapot, backing tray, katana, scythe... this was always at my shop, yet hoping that like a silver cup or jewelry even the basic one just for silver did not get crafted unless I took control of the blacksmith) Overall the game is fun, but eventually it becomes crazy repetitive and you just have to be stubborn to grind it out... If they will work on this more and add some features and more variety, this will be a hell of a fun game... My suggestion wait a bit for more features or for a sale... 6/10
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Fantastic economy management game, played it from the demo and have waited for it since. Really chilled out game you can either take part in or sit back and watch it all happen. I highly recommend this.
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Blacksmith Master is currently priced at 14.99€ on Steam.
Blacksmith Master is currently available at a 25% discount. You can purchase it for 14.99€ on Steam.
Blacksmith Master received 814 positive votes out of a total of 966 achieving a rating of 7.99.
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Blacksmith Master was developed by Untitled Studio and published by Hooded Horse.
Blacksmith Master is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Blacksmith Master is playable and fully supported on MacOS.
Blacksmith Master is playable and fully supported on Linux.
Blacksmith Master is a single-player game.
Blacksmith Master does not currently offer any DLC.
Blacksmith Master does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Blacksmith Master does not support Steam Remote Play.
Blacksmith Master is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Developer
Untitled Studio
Publisher
Hooded Horse
Release
15 May 2025
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