CraftCraft: Fantasy Merchant Simulator on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information
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CraftCraft is a story-based RPG merchant sim with hands on crafting! Create a pretty necklace for a mermaid or a sword made of dragon blood! Be a Moth or an Elf or a Cat and express your creativity in your cozy crafting studio and change the lives of locals in the mysterious port town of Windspell.
CraftCraft: Fantasy Merchant Simulator is a fantasy, stylized and cats game
developed by Placeholder Gameworks and Pineapple Works
and published by Placeholder Gameworks and Hawthorn Games.
Released on May 29th 2025 is available on Windows and MacOS
in 3 languages: English, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.
It has received 305 reviews of which 227 were positive and 78 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.0 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 15.99€ on Steam.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Windows 7
- Graphics: Support for OpenGL 2.1
MacOS
- OS: macOS 10.12
- Graphics: Support for OpenGL 2.1
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Great fun! Finicky controls but once you get the handle on them I think its a fantastic time. Unfortunately it does feel extremely unfinished in its current state, in particular the lack of an endless mode feels odd given the genre of game, so while I recommend it I do want a little more for 15$ and hope future releases rectify this!
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A nice blending of storytelling mixed with crafting of weapons and jewellery. Get to know the townsfolk, find romance and even have a cute owlcat companion. The Story & Gameplay Fresh out of the Crafter’s Guild you head to the small town of Windspell to open up your first crafting shop. The guild has been kind enough to get you started with some basic materials and fronting the rent on the shop for the first few weeks. You start the game creating your character from a list of humans, cats, elves or insects (moth). You can choose hair color, skin color, and hairstyle (back hair, mid hair and bangs). Also face shape, eyes, nose, lips and markings. Finally you pick your outfit. Then you can pick your background to give a bit of context to your character. ✨ The game autosaves but manually saves as well, as some crashes have happened. You can manually save by hitting ESC and naming your save file. I recommend doing this often. Tips & Tricks * To continue your game do not go to “start” on the main screen. Go to the menu and hit “save & load”. Click your last saved game and hit load. * When fixing Erik’s compass click on the screwdriver once, the compass will turn red, click on the glass with the screwdriver (then put it down) and click the glass to pick it up and move it to the side. If you drag the screwdriver without “clicking” it once with your mouse button it won’t work. * Visit the forest and back alley to pick up trinkets, junk and flowers to keep in your drawers at your workspace to create with. * If you need help open the blue scroll, it will guide you through the steps! Settings & Features Settings & features include; audio settings, display and resolution settings, accessibility settings such as the ability to turn off the mini games. The Visuals & Audio Visually the game is beautiful with colorful fantasy characters such as owlcats, elves and moths (cool idea to be able to play as a moth)! The soundtrack has tavern sounding tunes that fit the game perfectly. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3490773987 The game does have some voice work for the characters you meet that come into your shop, and it is very well done. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3490774345 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3490774166 Overall Experience I really like this game, the blending of crafting weapons and the creativity of making our own jewellery. There are some janky movements until you get used to using the tools. Like clicking the screwdriver instead or dragging it. Eventually you get the hang of all the equipment and it starts to flow. You can romance a potential companion (the romantic dialogue appears in a red colour so you know what to choose if you want to romance that person). And I enjoy going to various locations on the map to scavenge for trinkets, flora and junk to see what I can find to use in my designs. This game has so much to offer if you’re the creative type like myself. There is a small cost to forging ingots (1-3 gold each) to make weapons or armour so at that price you can keep being creative. You can buy some items like chains to hang pendants and collars for your pets (no comment…you can fill in the blanks yourself, haha). A really fun, creative game with some great artwork. ⚔️ ❗ The game does crash occasionally so before starting a new crafting job or after completing one do a manual save. 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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Look, it's a positive review because what's there is mostly good and fun. But I don't actually recommend buying it now - it feels like about 1/3 of a game. By the time you feel like "yep, just about to dive in and get going!" the game says "congrats! You have finished!" and it just ends. There is *a* story, and a ton of other things that look like they're going to be stories but wind up not being anything. I didn't even romance anyone because I thought there'd be more than just one meeting and that's it. There are also some bugs that will make you lose all your progress after finishing particularly tedious processes, and some clunky interface issues (if the drawers scrolled with a key instead of having to awkwardly grab and mouse I'd have 99% fewer issues), but there's nothing I'd say should stop you from buying it if you play indie games. The characters are all great, they feel like they were crafted with love and care. All the art is lovely. The storylines are intriguing and drew me in. I just wish there were more game in this game.
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CraftCraft is a crafting simulation game that has an emphasis on the client/artisan relationship, which is something I haven't seen in other crafting sims I've played. A good example of this is when a bird-knight came in asking for a rapier, but through dialog described a scimitar (dialog revealed they were after a curved blade for slashing, rather than a thin blade for stabbing). Sure enough, forging them a scimitar blade was the right option despite them asking for a rapier by name. The game has a lot of these little touches, where listening to what a customer is asking for is a little more involved than just using a certain material/pattern. Some clients have really specific requests, (like assembling a solar system model according to a star chart), and others ask for more vibe based items (gimme a spooky sword), with the variety of requests giving you a nice ebb and flow in how creative you can get with their requested items in a given day so the difficulty in the different tasks changes to give you little breaks in between harder tasks. The bits that I really liked were some of the "repair" sections where a client brings in a broken item and you have to disassemble, repair/replace, and then reassemble the item. These are kind of like little puzzles where you have to carefully keep track of which piece goes where, as well as bear in mind what they had said before giving you the item (ie, early on you repair a compass, but the missing sigils need to go on in a certain order that's briefly mentioned). The game has a lot of these sorta "hidden criteria" scores that you have to pay attention to the text to notice, which I liked. I had a little trouble with the wire-pendant tasks, as there were a lot of pieces to assemble for those that required glue on each of the pieces, as well as attaching to a blueprint to detect the right shape. I think that maybe having a sort of bulk attach option (like a drag-select/attach) would make that type of task a little easier. In a similar vein items you forage end up on your desk loose and while you can sort them in drawers, though I have a bad habit of just selecting all of the items while foraging, so the desk ended up getting a little messy (though there are a lot of loose things on my actual desk, so this might just be a bad habit of mine).
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Fun experience based around crafting/smithing in a shop. Lots of fun characters and voicing, especially full of anthro (furry) characters. Would recommend a play, it's fun to spend time in.
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CraftCraft: Fantasy Merchant Simulator is currently priced at 15.99€ on Steam.
CraftCraft: Fantasy Merchant Simulator is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 15.99€ on Steam.
CraftCraft: Fantasy Merchant Simulator received 227 positive votes out of a total of 305 achieving a rating of 7.01.
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CraftCraft: Fantasy Merchant Simulator was developed by Placeholder Gameworks and Pineapple Works and published by Placeholder Gameworks and Hawthorn Games.
CraftCraft: Fantasy Merchant Simulator is playable and fully supported on Windows.
CraftCraft: Fantasy Merchant Simulator is playable and fully supported on MacOS.
CraftCraft: Fantasy Merchant Simulator is not playable on Linux.
CraftCraft: Fantasy Merchant Simulator is a single-player game.
CraftCraft: Fantasy Merchant Simulator does not currently offer any DLC.
CraftCraft: Fantasy Merchant Simulator does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
CraftCraft: Fantasy Merchant Simulator does not support Steam Remote Play.
CraftCraft: Fantasy Merchant Simulator 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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Online players
21
Developer
Placeholder Gameworks,
Pineapple Works
Publisher
Placeholder Gameworks,
Hawthorn Games
Release
29 May 2025
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