Deadwater Saloon

Deadwater Saloon is about creating a character and building a saloon in a growing western town. You customize your character’s attributes, including Mixology, Seduction and Sneakiness, while managing your own life and reputation. Disease, aging, sanity and addictions can all affect you, and you can get married.

Your character and the town

Travellers visit your saloon for its distinct drinks and leave you with legendary stories to tell. As the town fills with citizens and businesses, you can build relationships with townspeople such as blacksmiths, sheriffs and preachers. You can also romance prospective partners or blackmail, abduct and murder people who threaten you.

Build your saloon

You start with a strip of land and build your saloon from the ground up as the town grows around it. Expand its walls and add bordellos, opium dens, high-stakes gambling rooms and railed porches. Furnish it with spittoons, tables, chairs, handcrafted bars, pianos, chandeliers and diamond dust mirrors.

Run the business

Manage a complex economy by stockpiling booze, food, guns and opium. Research drinks and foods to serve your customers, and hire staff from the town’s populace, including barkeeps, cooks, servers, prostitutes, croupiers, pianists and bouncers. Help staff develop their potential or fire them and hire more skilled replacements.

Events and consequences

Hundreds of events bring challenges from the forces of nature, meddlesome customers, firebrand Preachers and rival outlaw gangs. Some events develop into longer chains involving stronger, more formidable nemeses. Your choices have consequences.