Deadwater Saloon Prologue

Deadwater Saloon Prologue

Released Aug 2022

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.

79% positive · 154 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
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Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence

Where to get it

Free on Steam

Evaluation

Deadwater Saloon Prologue is a free standalone preview of the full game Deadwater Saloon. The store description explicitly states it is "a free introductory version of the full-game Deadwater Saloon," covering only the first month-and-a-half of in-game time. It was released on August 4, 2022, and is complete as a product — it was always intended as a limited promotional demo, not a game receiving ongoing content of its own. The developer post-launch activity in the news feed is directed at the full game Deadwater Saloon (which launched September 13, 2022), not at expanding the Prologue. The developer's most recent significant communication, from March 27, 2024, announces a new project called Sector Unknown — a sci-fi cRPG — signaling that the developer has moved on to new work entirely. There have been no announcements of new content, expansions, or updates planned for the Prologue itself. The Prologue shipped as a fixed, purpose-limited free demo and has been complete since its release date.
Evidence
The developer announced their next game, Sector Unknown (a sci-fi cRPG), stating they have moved on to a new project after working on Deadwater Saloon. No mention of further updates to the Prologue.
news post · Mar 27, 2024 source development ending
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Store description explicitly identifies this as a free introductory version of the full game Deadwater Saloon, limited to the first month-and-a-half of in-game time. It was designed and shipped as a fixed demo, not an evolving product.
description · Aug 4, 2022 source development ending
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Details

Publisher
CreativeForge Games
Achievements
64
Platform
Windows
Controller
—
Steam Deck
Not rated
Players
Single-player

About this game

Deadwater Saloon Prologue

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.

Create Your Character

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.

Form Relationships

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

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.

Manage

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.

Exist Within A Town

Start with a strip of land and watch as a western town builds up around you, bringing in a myriad of citizens and businesses.

Hundreds Of Events

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.

Last evaluated Jun 22, 2026
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