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Run a medieval smithy during the Hundred Years’ War, crafting customer orders, managing workers, and navigating rival factions.
Released 16 Nov 2023
Run a Medieval Smithy
Forge Special Orders
Balance Warring Factions
Anvil Saga is a management sim with RPG elements where you take control of a blacksmith shop amidst the Hundred Years' War. Each decision you make impacts the story and gameplay.
Developed by Pirozhok Studio · Published by HeroCraft PC
You take charge of a blacksmith shop during the Hundred Years’ War, building it from a ramshackle business into a larger workshop. Customers include merchants, priests, bandits, and French and English soldiers, whose competing interests shape the story.
Take orders, gather materials, and assign work such as mining, smelting, smithing, and woodworking. Hire employees with different skills and personalities, and manage their pay, food, rest, and work assignments as you try to meet customer requests.
Expand the smithy with new rooms, workstations, tools, and furnishings to handle more demanding orders and attract higher-paying customers. Your choices about which orders to fulfill affect faction relationships and the story, while building prestige helps unlock further progression.
Players who enjoy Anvil Saga often praise its blacksmith-shop management loop, branching story choices, and character interactions, including humorous pop-culture cameos. Some also like developing the workshop and crew. These positives are frequently tempered in the supplied reviews by reports of bugs, frustrating worker management, and repetitive stretches of play.
Turn a ramshackle blacksmith shop into a successful enterprise in a challenging and endlessly varied world! Deal with local bandits, merchants, priests, as well as French and English soldiers. Manage workers with various quirks, improve facilities and tools to create better merchandise, decorate your smithy to attract high-paying customers and most importantly – try not to get yourself beheaded!
Construct new rooms and underground facilities in order to expand your smithy and take on the more challenging orders. From a simple kitchen to living quarters, to logging or woodcarving workshops – each room needs to be outfitted with the appropriate furniture and décor.
Customers, relationships and decisions – they all matter! Maintain your reputation with conflicting factions, each one offering protection and bonuses for your budding enterprise. The orders which you decide to fulfil and the way you deal with each faction influences the game world and leads to a variety of tragic, fun or bewildering outcomes.
Manage orders and try to increase your prestige level to attract the rich and the famous. Look out for unique orders that pay a premium, such as a baron’s request to create the most beautiful ring for his daughter or a wandering knight demanding you forge a one-of-a-kind sword.
Take charge of employees with different skill sets, salary levels, needs and personalities. Keep them happy by building special facilities, installing amenities and decorating their rooms. Equip your workers with special tools for faster work and help improve their craft by adding new books to your library.
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 36 |
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| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 1 listed on Steam |
