Deadwater Saloon

Deadwater Saloon

Tanglefoot Games · 2022 · Simulation, Building, Management, Colony Sim, Immersive Sim

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Mixed64% · 186
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$14.99
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About Deadwater Saloon

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.

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Not recommended Nov 19, 2025
While the game initially seemed to be heading in the right direction establishing a solid foundation with various stats and a promising vision it ultimately feels like we only received half of a finished product. The experience suffers from a critical "snowballing" issue. It is far too easy to farm stats early on, which destroys any sense of challenge. By the mid-to-late game, the gameplay loop becomes hollow; there is nothing left to do but watch your money accumulate, which becomes boring very quickly.
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Recommended Jun 27, 2026
It is an UHMAZING game, it kinda gave me a struggle in the early game because I had to live everyday with debt... but who hasn't had a total of $1500 debt in their life, am I right? Right? No? Okay. It's like one of those games you once played on your keypad phone where you just build and build and see how your wealth either accumulate or you're forced to do pr0stitution to feed your dog, cat, horse and your wife because you have $1500 debt. hahahaha... On the topic of wife, it is so [b] easy [/b] to cheat on my wife who I only had to woe thrice or quince, romance then propose. I basically had no interaction with whats-her-name (Bertha, her names Bertha and she's the richest unemployed food addict in town) after that. I'd love if I can interact with my wife more so I could stop forgetting about her and stop sleeping with the travelling opera woman—or really every woman I land my eyes on.
Recommended Mar 4, 2026
Amazing game, i kinda like it, not many option to decorate or extend the tavern/saloon to much but overall this is a good game!
Recommended Jan 22, 2026
Deadwater Saloon is an ambitious management and role-playing hybrid developed by Tanglefoot Games and Creative Storm Entertainment, and published by CreativeForge Games alongside PlayWay S.A.. Set in a harsh and morally flexible Wild West frontier, the game places you in charge of building, running, and ultimately shaping the reputation of a saloon that can become anything from a respectable social hub to a lawless den of vice. Rather than focusing purely on numbers and efficiency, the game leans heavily into atmosphere and personal choice, framing the saloon not just as a business but as a living extension of your character’s identity and ethics. The experience begins with character creation, where personal attributes directly influence how the game unfolds. Skills tied to persuasion, crafting, combat, and social manipulation affect everything from drink quality and customer satisfaction to how effectively you navigate conflicts and relationships in town. This RPG-like layer gives the simulation a personal angle, making success feel tied not just to optimal layouts or profit margins, but to who your character is and how they operate in a volatile frontier society. Your reputation…
Recommended Dec 26, 2025
If you ever dreamed of living the life of Dolemite during the Wild Wild West, this game is for you! Booze, drugs and plenty of pimping to go around. Lie, cheat and steal your way into the hearts of the townsfolk, and take out those that oppose! Interesting "friendship" mechanics' success or failures can be the difference between the lowest prices on goods in town, and a sinking Saloon. Arm up your posse, as the inevitable gangs and bandits come to take their cut. While decor/furniture selection may be a bit limited, you have everything you need available to put old Vegas to shame. If you enjoy games like Pizza Syndacate, you'll have a good time. *NOT a game for children*
Not recommended May 27, 2025
Gave it a fair chance, uh, it sucks. All of it. It's so easy its almost an idle game. 20$ is ridiculous, considering how trivial it is to basically win, because you genuinely have to try to lose past a certain point. Maybe 5$ for this, considering the overwhelming slog. Key maps don't save whenever you boot the game up too, whoever was the leading team behind this game needs to close itself down.

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