About This Demo

This new demo is a substantial first chapter of Curse of Resthaven, giving you a complete representation of the game’s six-day loop and a glimpse into what happens when the loop begins again.

For the first time, you can dig into the true mystery of the island and begin pursuing all three of the game’s parallel storylines. Your choices at the beginning of the demo will determine which path you enter, creating one of three possible world states. Even within this initial loop, you’ll see and feel the differences your choices make. In the full game, only by completing all three paths will you ultimately uncover the complete story of Resthaven.

This demo spans the game's full six-day loop plus the first day of the second loop. This gives you a sense of the rhythm, scale, and flow of the full game, including the chance to engage with the game’s progression system, choose a Boon Card with powerful advantages (and nefarious disadvantages!), and experience how these choices can affect your next loop.

The demo is also fully voiced, bringing Resthaven’s strange and wonderful inhabitants to life. Enjoy more songs from the tavern’s bard and discover the unsettling delights of the Thwomp & Marjory puppet wagon.

You’ll have the freedom to explore the entire town of Resthaven (all four town zones), question all of its residents, and unlock all six town vendors. Trade with merchant ships, satisfy their requests, upgrade businesses, and prepare your loadout for the challenges waiting beyond the town in the island’s card-based expeditions.

But time is limited and valuable; every major action costs this precious commodity, whether trading, interrogating, or setting out on an expedition. With only six days to begin your work as the new Governor, you’ll need to decide what matters most, and what you can afford to leave for another loop.

Choose your path. Manage your time. Explore the island. And try to figure out what, exactly, is happening in Resthaven.

In this new demo, you're not just getting a first look. You're getting a taste of the real thing!

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Players who completed the previous version of the demo will receive their bonus of starting currency and skill points when the full game releases.

The save file created for this demo will carry over to the full game, so you can pick up where you left off. 

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The following is a description of the full game…

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Take command of the cursed island colony of Resthaven after your niece disappears on the eve of a catastrophe. You must govern the town, allocate resources wisely, and decide who… or what… to trust.

Trade and haggle with visiting merchants, upgrade businesses, and interrogate townsfolk who guard their secrets closely. Every decision will impact the colony’s prosperity and unlock new leads, opportunities, and risks.

When interrogation and investigation alone aren't enough, venture beyond the safety of Resthaven’s walls into the island's wilds through branching card-driven expeditions. Build a deck of resource and companion cards to face unpredictable encounters and confront eldritch horrors.

Your deck reflects your strategy: who you bring, what you carry, and how you prepare shape how expeditions unfold.

In the full game, the cataclysm is just six days away. At the moment of destruction, the island’s fading guardian intervenes, sending you back to the moment of your arrival with all of your memories and experiences intact.

Each time loop carries forward hard-earned advantages. Invest in permanent skill upgrades, and accept temporary boons from the island's goddess, each offering powerful benefits balanced by grave consequences.

Every loop reveals new truths about Resthaven, the forces seeking to control the island’s power, and your niece’s true role in what’s unfolding. Interrogate over 25 fully voiced characters, each with their own motives, secrets, and shifting allegiances.

Multiple major narrative paths and randomized expeditions ensure that each playthrough exposes different pieces of the puzzle. Only by mastering the game’s systems and winning over the people of Resthaven can you hope to break the curse.

• A unique genre mashup: Curse of Resthaven combines investigation and interrogation with trading, town management, deck building, and roguelite elements.

• Strategic resource management: upgrade the town's businesses and trade with visiting merchants to restore prosperity to the colony.

• The hand you're dealt: build your deck of resource and companion cards to undertake expeditions beyond the town's walls to retrace Amalia’s steps and go toe-to-toe with the island’s horrors.

• Exploit the timeloop: invest in skill upgrades, and accept the goddess's blessing (buff/debuff) to advantage your next run.

• Eldritch horror meets gothic intrigue: Unravel a darkly woven tale inspired by mythology, history, and cosmic dread.

• It takes a village: interrogate 25+ fully voiced NPCs, each with their own motives and agendas.

• A metaphysical fork in the road: three main paths and randomly shuffled island expeditions mean that every playthrough will be different.

• Relentless beauty and creeping dread: a hand-drawn, graphic novel art style that brings Resthaven’s dark fantasy world to life.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

Curse of Resthaven is a narrative horror game intended for mature audiences. It contains illustrated black-and-white depictions of violence and murder, references to suicide, and themes of war and colonial oppression. The game also includes references to alcohol and substance abuse, psychological distress, and other subject matter that may be disturbing to some people.