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One classic point and click adventure game fans have been excited about has arrive. Rosewater, a Western adventure in the alternate 19th century world of Lamplight City from Grundislav Games and Application Systems Heidelberg is out now with Native Linux support.

It's also rated Steam Deck Playable.

More about it: "It's been several years since Harley Leger left New Bretagne and headed west, hoping to leave her rough and tumble past behind and make her way as a freelance writer. When she arrives in the sleepy border town of Rosewater, a seemingly trivial assignment for the local paper leads to a hunt for a missing man's fortune—and the story of the century.

Harley and her ragtag posse embark on a harrowing journey across Western Vespuccia, facing bandits, rebels, ruthless oil barons, and many more obstacles on their quest for fame and riches."

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Features:

  • A thrilling treasure hunt with 5 travel companions and plenty of dramatic twists and turns. Your interactions and relationships affect the story.
  • Inventory is back, but logical, streamlined, and easy to use—no banging things together to see what sticks. Many situations have multiple solutions based on play style.
  • Randomized encounter storylets on your journey, with different situations and outcomes that depend on your previous choices and available resources.
  • Fully rotoscoped animations, including cinematic closeups.
  • High resolution 1280x720 graphics (yes, that's 720p!)
  • Full music score by Lamplight City composer Mark Benis, featuring live instruments.
  • Meet over 60 characters, voiced by a star-studded cast including Cissy Jones (Firewatch, Call of the Sea), Dave Fennoy (The Walking Dead), Roger Clark (Red Dead Redemption 2) and many more!

A little more about the developer:

Francisco Gonzalez has been making adventure games using Adventure Game Studio since 2001. After concluding his eight-part series of freeware adventures about paranormal investigator Ben Jordan in 2012, he moved from his native Miami to Brooklyn and transitioned to making games professionally as Grundislav Games. His first commercial title, A Golden Wake, a historical drama about land development in 1920s Florida, launched in 2014, followed by post-apocalyptic plague thriller Shardlight in 2016. In 2018, he released the detective mystery Lamplight City, published by Application Systems Heidelberg.

Raised on classic adventures from the likes of Sierra, LucasArts, and Revolution, Francisco is a champion of the modern indie adventure game scene and believes that the genre is the perfect medium for telling all kinds of stories.

Rosewater | Release Date: 27th March 2025

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CatKiller 22 hours ago
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I picked this one up immediately. Love me some point & clicks. They've got a demo up, but anyone that likes point & clicks will probably like both this and Lamplight City.
Arehandoro 5 hours ago
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Not a big fan of Westerns in general, but it looks good. The art reminds me of Jack Orlando, even if set in a different epoque, too.
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