Press release

Ready your hammers, heat up the forge and sharpen the blades - CraftCraft: Fantasy Merchant Simulator is OUT NOW on Steam and GOG!

30/05/2025, WarsawEstonian indie game developer/publisher Placeholder Gameworks and Polish co-developer Pineapple Works are proud to annouce that CraftCraft: Fantasy Merchant Simulator is available now on PC with a -15% launch discount!


CraftCraft: Fantasy Merchant Simulator is a crafting-based RPG merchant sim, where you find yourself in a small port town of Windspell, take up a job as a local smith and jeweler, and help the community with your craft. Make your own character, express yourself in your creations, meet many colorful people, get involved in their lives, and let your creativity run loose!

Key features

- Become a jeweler or a smith in a quaint port town.
- Create a moth / elf / cat character!
- Meet a lot of different folks and impact their lives. Your choices matter!
- ♥♥♥ Romance ♥♥♥
- Have a cute owlcat as a pet.
- Relax and craft!
- Short branching story spanning 11 in-game days with multiple endings
- Full voice acting (English only)
- Completely unique crafting simulation
- Original soundtrack recorded with real folk instruments


Trailer | Steam | GOG

 
About Placeholder Gameworks
Placeholder Gameworks is an international indie studio that believes in video games as a great storytelling device and try to push projects in directions that haven’t been fully explored by the industry. Known for Death and Taxes, currently working on 2 games: Broken Alliance and CraftCraft: Fantasy Merchant Simulator.


About Pineapple Works
Pineapple Works is a Polish games publisher, co-developer and porting studio specializing in indie games of various genres and styles. Some titles that you may have heard of include Dance of Cards, Stilt Fella, Landnama, Of Blades & Tails, Cassette Beasts, Death and Taxes, Legends of Amberland, and others.