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The Piper of Dawn

Grow magical crops—and your own workforce. Run an alchemy shop in a city trapped in a time loop, forge bonds with humans and non-humans, and shape its fate. A dark fantasy management sim with branching stories and multiple endings.

Release date
September 22, 2026
Platforms
Windows
Developer
Bone Nail
Publisher
Bone Nail, 2P Games
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About The Piper of Dawn

Become an alchemist in Diamond City, where growing a business means growing your own workers. Farm, craft, and sell your creations as you build relationships and navigate a dark fantasy story with multiple endings. Build Your Alchemy Business: Grow magical crops, craft valuable goods, and put your homegrown workforce to work. Meet the City's Unusual Residents: Discover over 40 NPCs and relationship paths for six central heroines. Shape the City's Fate: Earn the trust of six factions and explore branching stories shaped by your choices and reputation.

Grow ingredients, turn them into valuable creations, and sell them to fund your next expansion. Along the way, fulfill orders, build relationships, and uncover the city's stranger side. Cultivate the ExtraordinaryGrow over 100 crops and experiment with traits to improve your harvests. Expand underground and use alchemical circles to build a flourishing, self-sustaining farm. Turn Curiosities into ProfitDecorate your shop and stock its shelves with crops, potions, and rare curiosities. Build your reputation to attract non-human customers and unlock lucrative special orders.

Grow Your Own WorkforceMeet the Peoplesprouts: workers you grow yourself. Assign them to farming, retail, and manufacturing to automate your business. Match their talents to the job—and give them time to recover. Overwork takes a toll on their Sanity. Turn Experiments into OpportunityTransform materials into valuable goods or grant your Peoplesprouts powerful abilities. Experiment with volatile elements and combine alchemy with Oracles to discover extraordinary results.…

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★ 8.6/10Steam · 909 ratings
SteamLast checked November 2, 2026

Most helpful8

Recommended
I'm Just Gonna Say This Upfront : PLAY YOG SOTHOTH'S YARD BEFORE THIS This game story is good on it's own but it's better if…
Recommended
The Piper of Dawn is a story rich visual novel packed with fun gameplay elements including time management base building, farming simulation, shop keeping and…
Recommended
Based upon the description, I was NOT expecting to be hit right in the feels so many times during this game, and I am just…
Recommended
nah this game was the best, OOF took me a while to get the 100% achivment but im completely satisfied, but damn if only there…
Recommended
There's so much going on here and it's fun to watch play out. Underneath the quirky anime setting is an dark story with darker themes.…
Recommended
It's okay. Story-focused game but writing is just okay. Hurts its own stakes with too many solutions to the main conflict with unclear threats. If…
Recommended
demo spent pretty much 5 hours only 7hrs so far(i have been busy) but regardless of time its a great game like yog-sothoths-yard. Having a…
Not recommended
The gameplay is fun, but it's incredibly dialogue heavy. The dialogue windows and story scenes are unskippable which completely ruins the experience. If you're looking…

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Recommended
Based upon the description, I was NOT expecting to be hit right in the feels so many times during this game, and I am just…
Recommended
is the main character from this game is yinchen zhang? because they were the same style of outfit and the number one meteorite association ?
Recommended
nah this game was the best, OOF took me a while to get the 100% achivment but im completely satisfied, but damn if only there…
Recommended
There's so much going on here and it's fun to watch play out. Underneath the quirky anime setting is an dark story with darker themes.…
Recommended
If detective Foxgirl stands up every morning and choses violence, then so can you.
Recommended
It's okay. Story-focused game but writing is just okay. Hurts its own stakes with too many solutions to the main conflict with unclear threats. If…
Recommended
I'm Just Gonna Say This Upfront : PLAY YOG SOTHOTH'S YARD BEFORE THIS This game story is good on it's own but it's better if…
Recommended
The Piper of Dawn is a story rich visual novel packed with fun gameplay elements including time management base building, farming simulation, shop keeping and…

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