Dawnmaker
Arpentor Studio · 2024 · City Builder, Board Game, Strategy, Card Game, Tabletop
PC
Very Positive91% · 155
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About Dawnmaker
Dawnmaker is a solo strategy game combining elements of city building and deck building to create a board game-like experience. In a world covered by a toxic Smog, only you can rekindle the ancient lighthouses and bring light and life back. Construct buildings, gain new cards, generate resources and improve your central lighthouse to unlock new building space.
- Optimize your deck — Gain increasingly powerful cards as you improve your city. Your cards and buildings interact in various ways: choose them wisely to create the most powerful combinations!
- Build efficient cities — Make the best of your limited space by optimally positioning your buildings. Improve your lighthouse to repel the Smog and expand your city.
- Manage your resources — Grow farms, build industries, develop science and inspire your people to create the rarest of resources: Eclairium!
- Reclaim the lost continent — The continent of Heksiga has been covered by a toxic Smog. Repair and improve magical lighthouses to repel that Smog and reclaim the land, region by region.
- Recover lost technologies — Explore vestiges of the old Empire and rediscover technologies that were lost to the Smog.
Hi, we're Adrian and Alexis! We founded Arpentor Studio, a cooperative company, to create deep strategy games. Dawnmaker is our first commercial game. If you want to get involved, give us feedback on the game or help our small studio spread the word about Dawnmaker, please join our discord!
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Dawnmaker is an intriguing strategy title that merges city-building principles with deckbuilding mechanics in a way that feels both familiar and refreshingly distinct. Developed by Arpentor Studio and published by Acram Digital, the game places players in the role of a caretaker tasked with restoring civilization across the mist-covered lands of Heksiga. The world has been consumed by a dangerous Smog, leaving only ancient lighthouses as bastions of hope. From its opening moments, Dawnmaker establishes a compelling premise centered on rebuilding, discovery, and survival, inviting players into a slower and more contemplative experience than many modern strategy games. The game's foundation lies in its turn-based design, where every action carries significance. Players build settlements around their lighthouse by drawing and utilizing cards that represent structures, resources, and technological advancements. This fusion of mechanics creates a satisfying rhythm, as each turn presents opportunities to refine a strategy or adapt to changing circumstances. Managing resources becomes a balancing act that never feels overly punishing, while the gradual expansion of one's settlement offer…2 found this helpful
1 I GOT THIS ON SALE FOR UNDER 10 DOLLARS (UNSURE IF IT WAS WORTH 15 BUT DEFINITELY 10) 2 THIS GAME IS SET UP MORE LIKE A BOARD GAME AND IS THEREFORE FAIRLY SIMPLIFIED IN TERMS OF GAMEPLAY (SOLITAIRE STYLE) 3. DO NOT EXPECT A LOT OF RNG OR INFINITE WORLD BUILDING (SEE 2) THIS GAME WAS FUN THIS GAME IS NOT ROGUELITE SUPPORT THE PROGRAM CREATORS AS YOU CAN TELL THEY HAVE A VERY POLISHED, SIMPLE GAME!
https://youtu.be/RVd2IrghzQA Difficulty may be a bit tightly tuned but the 4x deck builder has some interesting hooks to bring players in with.
While it is a nice little puzzle/resource management game, I can't really recommend it. There isn't a lot of content, and you're probably tired out in 5-10 hours. The gameplay is repetitive and what's on offer here is of lower quality than what this genre generally has to offer.
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I completed one full playthrough in about 5 hours during an evening. Got to the last level, having failed about half the previous missions because of RNG. Failed the final mission as well because of RNG not giving me enough VP awarding cards quickly enough. Feels like 5 hours of my life wasted. Mechanically, this feels like it's still in alpha despite the graphics being quite good. Needs music as well. Got bored just hearing the same sfx over and over again.
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