Behind a heavy wooden door sits an old workshop that smells of dust, oil, and forgotten years. The shelves are empty, the workbench is yours, and every crate at the door hides something the world has stopped caring about. Your job is simple: notice what others missed.

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PLAYTEST PREMIERE

About This Game

RESTORE WHAT THE WORLD FORGOT

Everyone else sees junk. You know what's under the dust. Search abandoned houses, forests, and scrapyards. Collect the things nobody wants and make them valuable again in your workshop. But not every piece is just money, some of them have a past, and that past doesn't let go.

EXPLORE

Every region carries its own story. Pick the locks on cabinets, break open crates, sweep the dark corners with your lantern. Fill your sack and your boxes, load up your cart and head home. You won't know what you found until you clean it.

RESTORE THE FORGOTTEN

Clean every item by hand in your workshop. As the grime comes off you see the real surface underneath, the maker's mark, the crack, the value. Some pieces turn into a fortune, some are exactly the junk you took them for, and some show you something you would rather not have found.

HAGGLE AND SELL

Pick your buyer and make the call. Every buyer has a character of their own: some are quick and stingy, some are patient but picky. Settle on a price, pack your items into boxes, load the cart and ship it out. Selling the right item to the wrong buyer is worse than not selling at all.

GROW YOUR WORKSHOP

Put what you earn back into the workshop: upgrade your tools, unlock new regions, buy better gear. Arrange your display and your storage by hand; everything stays exactly where you put it.

IT'S QUIETER OUT HERE THAN IT SHOULD BE

The well outside your workshop had been sealed for years. One night it broke open from the inside. Your lantern changes colour near certain items. Some evenings it is quieter outside than it should be. Nobody is going to tell you what is going on here.

FEATURES LIST

  • Hands-on Restoration: Scrub away the grime, repair damages, and bring forgotten antiques back to life piece by piece
  • Exploration: Search for rare treasures across atmospheric abandoned houses, dark forests, and rusty scrapyards
  • Deep Negotiation: Deal with unique buyers who have their own personalities and pricing quirks
  • Business Management: Run the entire chain, from collecting and restoring, to packing, storing, and shipping
  • Supernatural Undertones: Uncover an uneasy layer beneath the antique trade, featuring cursed relics and things better left unexplained
  • Free Placement: Organize your workshop exactly how you like it with a fully grid-free placement system

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

We used generative AI for: art on the store page, and some in-game textures. Each AI-generated content was then manually adjusted by our in-house artist to ensure the presence of human input in the art and high quality of the game.

System Requirements

    Minimum:
    • OS: Windows 10 64 Bit
    • Processor: Intel Core i3 3.0 GHz
    • Memory: 8 GB RAM
    • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780
    • DirectX: Version 11
    • Storage: 8 GB available space
    • Additional Notes: Recommended installation on an SSD drive
    Recommended:
    • OS: Windows 10 64 Bit
    • Processor: Intel Core i5 3.4 GHz
    • Memory: 8 GB RAM
    • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
    • DirectX: Version 11
    • Storage: 12 GB available space
    • Additional Notes: Recommended installation on an SSD drive
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