Obscure

Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game

96% positive of 80 Steam reviews

Main story: Unknown
Everything: Unknown
Released: 2023
Steam Deck: Not tested
Known on: Steam

Made by Calamity Bay Games.

About the game

A story-driven Survival/ Farm RPG about learning to live after loss. Explore 7 emotional story arcs tackling love, grief, purpose & struggle of many kinds. Farm, Forage, Hunt and Craft to endure the deserts of 1860's Oregon (on casual/ challenge). Walk the path from mere survival to something more.

What sets it apart

Farming Sim
Narrative
Life Sim
Dialogue Heavy
Romance
Historical
Base Building
Crafting
Old School
Survival
Isometric
Hand-drawn

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Obscure

Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game

96% positive of 80 Steam reviews

See it on Steam

Main story: Unknown
Everything: Unknown
Released: 2023
Steam Deck: Not tested
Known on: Steam

Made by Calamity Bay Games.

About the game

What sets it apart

Farming Sim
Narrative
Life Sim
Dialogue Heavy
Romance
Historical
Base Building
Crafting
Old School
Survival
Isometric
Hand-drawn

What players say

Recommended
This is a farming sim first, a story about your relationship with your sibling second, and a romantic visual novel third. I don't say that to imply I'm unhappy- I specifically bought the game for the grumpy brother energy and the hugs. It's to set your expectations about what you'll be doing most of your time in this game. I played the sister, Aine, and romanced Prince Laan and he was a tall beautiful blushing…
24 h played when written. 36 found it helpful.
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Recommended
A unique setting for a harvest moon-adjacent game, Veil of Dust tells the tale of Aine and Shane Callahan, Irish immigrants to the Americas in the 1800s. The game initially looks to be just an older style harvest moon where you follow the story of the impoverished siblings and attempt to help them flourish, but we quickly come to see that, at least in Aine's release story, a great deal of the plot revolves around…
10 h played when written. 19 found it helpful.
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Not recommended
Overall, an interesting story to follow with good cutscene dialogues, but not good enough to overcome its shortcomings. However it has too many gripes to recommend: - the game encourages you to talk often to characters, yet almost all day to day dialogues are repeated since game start with no regard to story events. This ensures that any new interesting dialogues you get every 20 days (rough count) gets buried under…
12 h played when written. 9 found it helpful.
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