Forgive me Padre for I am about to Sin; Some of these furries have no business looking so thicc. Who would’ve expected this from a cosy merchant sim.

📝 Main Pros, Cons, and Suggestions, followed by the Review:

🟩 Pros: + Bar some items, everything is beautifully drawn + Roughly 8 hours game time across 11 in game days + I love the rhythm game while smithing, it’s such a vibe + Brilliant voice acting, featuring 30+ uniquely voiced customers + A heap of items to craft, with even more subcategories to explore + Character customisation lets you choose from several appearance and race options + A branching story featuring romance options and multiple endings to keep you busy + Mortimer from Death and Taxes, another highly enjoyable story experience, is in CraftCraft! 🟥 Cons: - A few UI issues with interactables, leading to some painful moments - Items might disappeared between rooms with no way to pick them up, should you drop them too early - Some item textures are low quality, looking overly stretched and low resolution, which is a shame considering the quality of everything else 🏷️ Suggestions: ~ Steam Achievements (WIP) ~ A button to return crafted items and tools to their respective rooms

A Cosy Merchant Sim Awaits

CraftCraft is a surprisingly charming merchant sim packed with personality thanks to a wide variety of quirkily voiced and beautifully drawn customers. It’s a cosy game, opening with a simple order from a humble farmer, from there, the magic begins. Head to the smithy, grab an ingot, heat, hammer, and sharpen it, slap it on a hilt and voila – Your first dagger is ready! This initial request is a simple yet engaging introduction for the rest of the game. It’s a cleverly designed tutorial, teaching by doing, rather than saying (or showing), taking you step by step through each of the interactable elements. From here, CraftCraft expands, introducing different item categories with a heap of customisation options to keep you busy, along with a diverse roster of customers and companions who you can woo. If you’re after a relaxing yet enjoyable merchant sim with beautifully drawn and quirkily voiced characters, an engaging story, with satisfying hands on gameplay mechanics, look no further – CraftCraft is here!

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People stand around looking impressed as I make the ugliest fucking knife known to man or bug.

This game isn't quite there yet. I loved the demo, and was excited to play this, but the amount of crashes and glitches I've had have made it unplayable to me. Feels much more like an Early Access than a full launch. Hopefully in a few months the game will get to where it should be and the kinks will be worked out of it.

I just finished the game today and thought "This was sick, I just wish there was an endless mode to it". Opened Steam and suddenly there was an endless mode.

ill just give you my refund request to read: i know i am way over the 2 hour mark but when i purchased this game i expected a managent/life simulator and order fulfilment game with a dating sim aspect on the side. the commision fulfilment aspect was there but the dating sim aspect was besides the game telling you you could flirt with the characters, just not there. like at all. it didnt add anything to the story and wasnt even mentioned at all throughout the game or even the end. the story was very linear and making decision was done by crafting specific things differently (adding things or refusing service) but those didnt really make any impact from what i could tell. i expected a story rich and interesting game and what i got was a buggy* mess (and sometimes even gamebreaking) interactive cartoon with a really unsatisfactory end. i spent so many hours playing in hopes at the end i would get some sort of endless mode but no. the save file that i invested 8 hours in (i admit it took me quite long) is just sitting there collecting dust. given that the coices barely have an impact its also not worth starting another safe file to get potentially another ending that wont even feel any different from the first one. for me its (at least in its current state) not at all worth more than 10 bucks. this feels more like a long demo with its limited 12 days rather than a full release. i had high hopes for this game and i believe there is true potential here but in its current state i cannot reccomend it since its not worth the money *character sprites not showing / appearing too early *dialogue not matching with what the person actually wants *objects literally bugging behind my desk so i am comepletely incappable of finishing the comission and have to reload -in the hopes- that it will not happen again. (which it did, like 5 times before i finished that stupid star dudes planet thingy)

oooooOOOO boy i never wright reviews unless they show actual potential or are just complete dogshite THIS when i first got this game, i was expecting for me to just refund it after the tutorial, so i boot it up, do a couple of commissions and realise that i had played for 7 HOURS this took me back to the days of JACK SMITH, hammering away on my lil copper sword before getting caught and scolded by the teacher. and you get to TALK to the people! i always wanted to make small talk to a pirate skeleton, or sentient armor. Meowl is a whole other 5 stars. but i have one request: i may have missed it, but LET ME DATE THE PIDGEON PLEAAAAAAAAAASE PLEAAAAAAAAAASE BRO PLEAAAAAAAASE. TL;DR 9/10 my only gripes is the typos, the kinda grainy items the getting the rotating of bits and bobs pixel perfect, and the lack of playable races (most hopefully will be fixed in updates) other than that i am REAAAALLLLY exited to see where this goes, and i am a really pleased to say that i was here before craftcraft was mainstream

since i dont feel like retyping it here is my steam refund request: "in theory the game is good but it is misleading. not a simulator at all. its a choices matter story game progressed by crafting. the game only goes on for like 2 in game weeks then ends. and there's no way to continue my save file on an endless mode. i do understand that my playtime is over the 2 hours, but do understand that with all the filler this game has that's how long it took. and while i would be satisfied there's literally no way to continue my save on an endless mode. therefore i just wasted 5 hours of my life for the most cliche plot twist ending ever and no way to continue..." now just to elaborate on that, i do know that they advertise that the game has a 5-7 hour story but it really is still misleading. they call this a simulator when in reality its really not. a simulator would not teach you the ropes just to end the game right when you get the hang of it. as much as i want to like this game i thought there would be an endless mode.

Amazing art and cozy vibes however it feels like an incomplete game for the game feels incredibly short. (You can finish it within 4 hours.) Maybe consider getting the game if it's on at least a 30% sale because at its original price point, the duration is not worth it.

In theory, this game was made for me. It's simple, cozy as hell, and the characters are cute, well written, and what world building exists in the game is good! And then it ends. No *real* resolution of any of the choices you made, no *real* return to any of the plot points that are set up, and despite the devs being upset that Steam made them remove the Romance tag because they "didn't play it long enough" I beat the game, and there *isn't* any romance. You can choose whether or not to make a flirty line at some of your customers, and then they leave and you never see them again, with no pay off minus one or two lines where some of the customers will give you a fraction more insight into themselves. I want to like this game, I want to *love* this game, but when the credits hit, I was absolutely baffled, presumed that it was a cute "oh thats the credits for the prologue or something" and when the game was *over* I had to go back to the store page to see if I had missed the early access tag. The game *should* be good, the art is great, the voice acting is stellar, the characters are interesting, the crafting is cute, pretty simple, but addictive in a "lets see how many bones I can stick on a sword before I fully lose my sanity" way, and that just makes how short it is feel worse. I have 5 hours played, but I'd say beating the game realistically could've been done in two, maybe three hours at most if I wasn't dealing with random crashes (which have been patched!) and my elderly wrists making me take breaks. I wish I could recommend this game, but as it is right now, I just can't bring myself to do it in good faith.

Absurd choice to default female when majority of players are male, but made character. Listened to guy talk, nothing funny or interesting. Game crash. I run intense games on this TV/PC so very unusual. Restart game. Wants me to make character again! Bleh! Can't even save after so many player selections if you have a crashy game? Boo dev for terrible first experience.

Moth people are cute, Owlcats are cute and my tiara made of trash is cute. Ain't nothing you can do about it.

I love the devs, I love Death and Taxes but this whole game feeling like a tutorial until the end feels like a slap in the face when you get there. And that's not to mention the amount of bugs that I ignored to enjoy it and give the game the benefit of the doubt.

i love this game sooooooo much raaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh

Hot fox lady, wish there was some more to the game, maybe a "freemode" or endless mode, but still a cool and creative game.

Craft!

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.

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Glue mechanic and storage features are agonizing

Found this game last night and then stayed up all night playing it. Its very fun the only problems I see are a few bugs which is normal for a new game 10/10 game so far!

Had a fox woman flirt with me, ruined a priceless compass used to make important maps, then accidentally made a badger man fall in love with me. All in the same day. 11/10

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