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Press release:
The Poland-based indie games studio CreativeForge Games (“Hard West” and “Phantom Doctrine”) and Canada-based indie games developers Creative Storm Entertainment (“Age of Gladiators”, “Raiders!” “Forsaken Earth”) and Tanglefoot Games, today announced with great pride and thrill that their Western-themed management sim/RPG “Deadwater Saloon” is coming to Steam in Q2 2022.

Dive into the wild west as a saloon owner in a volatile frontier town. Customize your character and face the consequences of your choices as you forge friendships and enemies of townsfolk, travellers, outlaws, and lawmen. Build the most famous saloon in the territory or be overrun and destroyed.

FEATURES

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.

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.

ABOUT Tanglefoot Games and Creative Storm Entertainment:

At both Tanglefoot Games and Creative Storm Entertainment, we strive to create highly original, immersive, and impactful experiences. We love games of all genres that maintain a high level of integrity in design, gameplay, entertainment, and innovative storytelling, aiming to appeal to the larger gaming community both artistically and commercially.

We share a quality over quantity philosophy, endeavouring to make each game matter. Our design philosophy is cinematic in nature: we want to make games that not only challenge the player through gameplay, but with introspective choices, story, and character. We believe the higher the stakes, the more meaningful the choices, which for us translates to more fun.

Damon LeBrun is a veteran indie game developer with a successful track record through his company Creative Storm Entertainment, including Age of Gladiators, Age of Gladiators 2: Death League, Age of Gladiators: Rome, and Raiders: Forsaken Earth.

Combining his love of history, comics, video games and world building, Damon has created a compelling body of work that showcases a unique authenticity, replayability, in depth mechanics and grit.

Chris Scheuerman is an award-winning filmmaker with a distinct vision. His feature film Lost Solace screened at over 20 international film festivals, where it secured global distribution. Critics called it “…a surreal, surprising, and astonishing head trip of a genre-buster.” – Alan Jones, Frightfest Film Festival. Chris has a passion for highly original, innovative, and interactive games that detail his love of character, and desire to explore our fragile human condition.

Damon and Chris have been creative collaborators for over fifteen years, beginning with the short films Creepy Jesus and Nowhere But Here. They now have several feature film and series projects that have been optioned for production, while concurrently co-designing and co-developing their first video game together: the management simulator Deadwater Saloon.

Together they have established a tremendous shorthand in their creative process, each bringing notable insight and sensibilities. They share a love of cinema and a deep affinity for well designed, meticulously crafted video games.