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Build an alchemist’s farm and shop in a time-looping city, using crops, alchemy, and faction ties to shape its fate.
Released 22 Sep 2026
Grow Magical Crops
Transmute Crops into Potions
Run an Alchemy Shop
Welcome to Diamond City, a realm trapped in an endless cycle of madness! This story-rich dark fantasy sim lets you master alchemy, grow magical crops, run a thriving shop, and build relationships with humans and non-humans alike. Discover the city's many fates through your choices.
Developed by Bone Nail · Published by Bone Nail, 2P Games
You play a gifted alchemist who arrives in isolated Diamond City and takes charge of a workshop. As the city repeats its cycle, you build a livelihood while investigating its strange rules and the factions vying for influence.
Grow and harvest magical crops, experiment with their traits, and use them to fulfill orders or make goods through alchemy. Expand your farm and shop, and raise Peoplesprouts to help with farming, production, and retail work.
Spend each day managing the business, fishing, playing cards, and building relationships with residents and factions. Progress unlocks new systems and story routes; your choices and reputation influence the city’s fate and lead to different endings.
Players who enjoy the game often praise its distinctive character art and CGs, the mystery surrounding Diamond City, and the breadth of activities linking farming, alchemy, shopkeeping, and worker management. Some appreciate how those systems give them different ways to build their business and pursue story routes. Reviews also frequently describe the management as demanding or fiddly, with concerns about lengthy story passages, translation quality, and uneven pacing or economic balance.
The Piper of Dawn is a story-rich management RPG with multiple endings set within the isolated city of Diamond City. Step into the shoes of a gifted alchemist and use your skills to grow magical crops and build a thriving shop, all while navigating a dangerous web of human and non-human factions. Earn their support and ultimately decide the city's fate.
A Sprawling, Branching Adventure: Immerse yourself in an expansive dark fantasy narrative featuring multiple story routes and unique relationship paths for six central heroines.
A Living, Volatile World: Meet more than 40 memorable NPCs from six supernatural factions, each with their own personalities and ambitions. Build your reputation through business and story events to earn their trust and support.
Every Decision Matters: Your choices and reputation shape the story, leading Diamond City—and everyone within it—to one of many different endings.
Explore a wide variety of management systems that take center stage at different points throughout the game, including farming, fulfilling orders, shopkeeping, alchemy, Peoplesprout husbandry, Oracles, card games, fishing, and more. Spend each day however you like and tailor the experience to your own playstyle.
Grow over 100 unique crops, each with its own growth stages and trait modifiers, while mixing and matching different traits to discover new possibilities and tailor each harvest to your needs.
Expand your plantation from the surface down into subterranean biomes, each offering unique terrain effects, and set up powerful alchemical circles to create a self-sustaining farm with ever-growing yields.
Design your shop, decorate it to your liking, and empty your customers' pockets!
Different display stands let you sell different goods, from fresh crops and alchemical potions to rare curiosities.
As your reputation grows with the city's six major factions, non-human customers will begin visiting your shop—and may even slip lucrative special orders onto your board...
Grow your own loyal workforce: Peoplesprouts! The Peoplesprout system takes care of the grind by providing three specialized worker types: Farmers, Retailers, and Manufacturers, covering almost every repetitive task in the game. Simply use the Peoplesprout management system, assign each one based on their unique talents, and watch them work their magic.
Overworking your Peoplesprouts will drain their Sanity, so helping them recover in Peoplesprout dwellings is just as important. To prevent this from getting too much of a headache, you can also release those you no longer want.
From humble Peoplesprouts to powers of legend.
Continue improving your alchemical skills through the Tree of Life, and build your fortune, gain power, and claim your domain!
Deepen your alchemical mastery to mass-produce high-value creations, or transmute worthless junk to grant your Peoplesprouts powerful new abilities. While you're free to experiment with alchemy however you see fit, all alchemy still follows the law of Equivalent Exchange. Oh, and volatile elemental interactions can lead to unpredictable results, so finding the right balance is key. Combine your creations with Oracles to perform jaw-dropping alchemical miracles!
Build your ultimate deck of Oracles and give yourself buffs bordering on the divine!
...Yes, it's actually a gacha system.
Draw and combine Oracles bestowed by ancient gods to gain powerful bonuses during each time rewind. Just be careful of their whispers—you may find yourself falling under their influence.
Six distinct factions vie for influence across Diamond City, from the profit-driven merchants of Commercial Street and the Silver Key Fae seeking to coexist with humanity, to the Goddess's followers and the Witch's fanatical devotees. Build relationships with each faction to earn reputation, unlock lucrative contract orders, and experience different endings.
Gacha is a blast. Paying for it? Not so much.
Luckily, Oracles and freeform alchemy don't cost a thing. The Ancient Gods and Outer Gods are more than happy to make friends with you.
Card games are a blast. Losing money? Not so much.
Luckily, you have two legendary gods on your side: Save and Load. Challenge various NPCs at the Golden Cage and win big through Blackjack.
Fishing is a blast. Going home empty-handed? Not so much.
But here, you'll always catch something. From the fountain to Drowning Lake, different fishing spots across the world let you catch all kinds of fish—and even the occasional Ancient God.
Yes, you read that right. You can reel in gods.
A barmaid blessed with superhuman strength—and your very first full-time hire. She originally dreamed of becoming a housemaid, only to discover a surprising natural talent for farming.
The daughter of a mathematician, Nene has a brilliant mind, razor-sharp intuition, and the combat skills to back them up. But her true talent shines through in the end: after becoming a Peoplesprout keeper, Nene finally found the perfect place to put her skills to use.
Feel like adventuring alone is far too safe? Then bring this amazing trouble magnet along! She'll bring a never-ending stream of danger your way.
With shimmering rose-gold fur, a fluffy tail, and incredible marksmanship, Gretel seems to encounter mysterious incidents wherever she goes, recording each one in her Field Notes.
Meow? Meow, meow!
Princess, goddess, sacrifice... Aurora bears many identities and possesses extraordinary magical power that greatly influences Diamond City itself.
A woman shrouded in mystery, her true nature remains impossible to discern.
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Bone Nail Studio is a team of passionate game developers (and cat lovers) dedicated to creating fun and engaging games. We strive for quality in everything we do, though we occasionally go a little off the rails. This is our fourth game and the official sequel to Yog-Sothoth's Yard. Anyway, we hope you enjoy exploring the world we've created!
Thank you all for your continued support!
—Bone Nail Studio
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 91 |
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| Controller required | No |
