- May 29, 2025
- Placeholder Gameworks
- 8h median play time
CraftCraft: Fantasy Merchant Simulator
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CraftCraft: Fantasy Merchant Simulator is a single player casual role playing game with a fantasy theme. It was developed by Placeholder Gameworks and was released on May 29, 2025. It received positive reviews from players.
CraftCraft is an RPG merchant sim with actual. Crafting. Create a tiara for a mermaid princess or a sword made of dragon blood - you choose! Express your creativity in your very own cozy crafting studio and change the lives of quirky locals in the mysterious port town of Windspell.











- Charming, cozy, and visually appealing with beautiful art style and voice acting that brings diverse characters to life.
- Engaging crafting mechanics combining rhythm minigames and creative assembly, providing satisfying and unique gameplay.
- Developer is responsive and actively improving the game; includes diverse character customization and inclusive representation.
- Game is quite short with an abrupt and unsatisfying ending, lacking deep story progression and limited romance options.
- Numerous bugs, crashes, and clunky UI issues, especially with inventory management, crafting precision, and save/load system.
- Limited replayability and depth in crafting variety and economic simulation; endless mode is barebones and some game systems feel unfinished.
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The story is generally praised for its engaging characters, charming dialogue, and immersive worldbuilding, though many players find it quite short—typically around 5-7 hours—and rather abrupt or incomplete, feeling more like a prologue than a full narrative. Players appreciate the branching paths and replay value, but express a strong desire for expanded content, deeper plot development, and more meaningful resolutions to storylines and romances. While the added endless mode provides extended gameplay, it is often seen as a less fulfilling substitute for a longer, more developed story.
“This game includes an amazing story with riveting and well thought out characters; every character has their own identity, their own stories, and their own reasons for coming to your shop.”
“All of the little details about the characters that you can get from the dialogues and small talk in the shop or tavern make them so much more alive. Seeing connections between them was one of the highlights, especially since I love complexly woven story elements and background lore!”
“A very fun and endearing game, full of lovable characters, incredible art, inviting voice acting, and a story that makes you feel as if your choices matter!”
“Unfortunately, the story feels like a prologue rather than a finished game. I was excited to see where the plot would go after the crafter's guild trial period, after building up character dynamics, having encounters that appeared to have implications for the future, and learning about complex political situations... and ended up being shocked when that was, in fact, the end of the game.”
“The story ends just as you think it's getting started, and the devs have expressed no desire to continue the story with the excuse that they're 'not a AAA studio.' But there's already so much here to work with; all the foundations and framework are laid, they just need to write the stories.”
“Overall, the abrupt ending, cut content from the beta, combined with bugs and lack of content once you have finished the main story in a game about creativity really left an awful taste in my mouth.”
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Frequently Asked Questions
CraftCraft: Fantasy Merchant Simulator is a casual role playing game with fantasy theme.
CraftCraft: Fantasy Merchant Simulator is available on PC, Mac OS, Windows and Linux.
On average players spend around 9 hours playing CraftCraft: Fantasy Merchant Simulator.
CraftCraft: Fantasy Merchant Simulator was released on May 29, 2025.
CraftCraft: Fantasy Merchant Simulator was developed by Placeholder Gameworks.
CraftCraft: Fantasy Merchant Simulator has received positive reviews from players. Most players liked this game for its story but disliked it for its stability.
CraftCraft: Fantasy Merchant Simulator is a single player game.
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