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Placeholder Gameworks @placeholder.games · 05/05/2026

Hear ye, hear ye! We are organizing a Steam Festival called Fantasy Job Faire. Take a look if your game is eligible for submitting! (Deadline 15th June) forms.gle/g21sWzKyvW5L...

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Placeholder Gameworks @placeholder.games · 08/06/2025

We hit 1,000 members on Discord! One of YOU will design a pendant blueprint in CraftCraft! Reply with a pic of your best in-game pendant made from scavenged items & tag a friend with #CraftCraftGame Winner's design gets added to the game, submissions end 15/06!

"Your design here" text pointing to a question mark

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Placeholder Gameworks @placeholder.games · 30/05/2025

Next to be featured in #CraftCraftGame, from the epic quests in the 2023 GOTY Baldur's Gate 3 and Dragon Quest, to a cozy shop in Windspell! @jessicacarroll.bsky.social as Sua the Second!

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Placeholder Gameworks @placeholder.games · 29/05/2025

After 3 long years of development and many... err... accidents, we are delighted to announce... CraftCraft: Fantasy Merchant Simulator is OUT NOW on Steam! Link in replies✨

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Placeholder Gameworks @placeholder.games · 21/05/2025

When we got @carterdmills.bsky.social to voice The Toadstool Priest in #CraftCraftGame they told us they'd love to be rabbit folk! Close enough I guess?

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Placeholder Gameworks @placeholder.games · 20/05/2025

#CraftCraftGame wouldn't feel the same without our incredible roster of voice actors, so we thought we'd give you a little taste! Starting with @emiliebrewer.bsky.social as Marjolene!

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Placeholder Gameworks @placeholder.games · 19/05/2025

The ingredients of our game: - Completely unique crafting simulation - Full voice acting - Romanceable characters - Branching storyline - Original soundtrack recorded with real folk instruments!

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Placeholder Gameworks @placeholder.games · 06/05/2025

📜 Meowl brings exciting news! CraftCraft will release on May 27th! (IN THREE WEEKSsdgfdshfgsdg!!) To help our indie team and get notified, give the game a Wishlist! ✨Link in replies!

A picture of an Owlcat with the text "Release Date: 27th of May 2025 (That's in three weeks!!!) Wishlist on Steam to give us a visibility boost and get notified!"

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Placeholder Gameworks @placeholder.games · 11/03/2025

This is a cat checkpoint 🐱🚨 Show us your cats!

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Placeholder Gameworks @placeholder.games · 20/02/2025

Starting in 15 minutes in High Live 2 at NordicfuzzCon!

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Placeholder Gameworks @placeholder.games · 12/02/2025

This is for losing my 702 day streak.

A screenshot from "Death and Taxes" with a page file of "Duo" and a marker over "DIE"

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Placeholder Gameworks @placeholder.games · 30/01/2025

We were blessed to have a Daily Deal for Death and Taxes this January. I'm speechless. After some very rough times this was by far the best sale we've ever had, surpassing our last Daily Deal together our last remaining Steam Visibility Boost. This will keep our studio running the next few months🥰

Death and Taxes sold 55187 copies in the last 30 days on Steam. I can not put into words how thankful I am for this, because we've not been doing too hot financially, and this ensures our survival for at least a few months!

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Placeholder Gameworks @placeholder.games · 23/01/2025

LIKE WHATEVER TF THIS IS LOL WHAT

a monster, something that looks like fifty barbie dolls melted together

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Placeholder Gameworks @placeholder.games · 23/01/2025

Honored to be hosting this week's #TurnBasedThursday!⚔️ All #TurnBased creators, #IndieDev and #Gamedev folks, please show your games below!👇 And to all turnbased lovers, help us spread the love with your ❤️'s and 🔁's, and @ your favorite creators in the replies. Thank you!✨

#TurnBasedThursday is looking for YOU to spread the love and information about all of your favourite turn-based games!

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Placeholder Gameworks @placeholder.games · 22/01/2025

I couldn't resist the urge to showcase this incredible Death and Taxes fan art sent on our Discord, drawn by toloveie on Instagram!

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Placeholder Gameworks @placeholder.games · 18/01/2025

We're teaming up with the fellow Estonian @bootstrapisland.bsky.social team, an immersive VR survival game, to give away five copies of both Broken Alliance and Bootstrap Island to five lucky winners! To join, use the link below and find out you can double your chances 👀 🗓️Ends Jan 24th!

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Placeholder Gameworks @placeholder.games · 16/01/2025

Hello! Thanks for pointing this to us, because it should be 8 and not 6! Each faction will be composed of 2 different races. 6 haven't been revealed yet, but we will have some info about Phobos soon! Anchorage, the currently available one has Humans and Meerfolk to chose from. 🙂

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Placeholder Gameworks @placeholder.games · 08/01/2025

Broken Alliance launches in Early Access NEXT WEEK, woooo! 🎉 As a treat, here's one of the combat units... The Wolfman! 🐺🔊 #Gamedev #Indiedev #Pixel #Pixelart #BrokenAlliance

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Placeholder Gameworks @placeholder.games · 02/01/2025

Are you a content creator, a reviewer, or perhaps a game journalist? We've got something for you! ✨ You can now request a preview copy of Broken Alliance for you to record, stream, review, and make content of! More details below!👇🔗

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Placeholder Gameworks @placeholder.games · 23/12/2024

Hello everyone! To celebrate Christmas, we'll be giving away 10 copies of Death and Taxes on Steam! 🎁 To join, repost, and follow @placeholder.games! Winners will be picked on December 25th! 🎅

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Placeholder Gameworks @placeholder.games · 13/12/2024

Half-Life 3 may not have been announced, BUT... CraftCraft will be featured in TGAGWCAGA 2024! Streaming TODAY, December 13th! ⏰ Friday, December 13th 5:00 PM UTC / 6:00 PM CET / 12:00 PM ET 📺 Watch the stream here: www.youtube.com/@TGAGWCAGA @tgagwcaga.bsky.social

TGAGWCAGA 2024—The Game Awards for Games Who Can't Afford the Game Awards! Streaming this Friday, December 13th!

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Placeholder Gameworks @placeholder.games · 12/12/2024

Broken Alliance is an indie turn-based adventure strategy game featuring strong RPG elements with a fresh deckbuilding twist! Recruit mythical creatures, make or break alliances, and save the world from imminent death. #TurnBasedThursday #RPG #IndieGame #GameDev

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Placeholder Gameworks @placeholder.games · 28/11/2024

nice store.steampowered.com/bundle/15825...

Death & Taxes and Headliner are a total of -69% off on Steam's Autumn Sale!

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Placeholder Gameworks @placeholder.games · 23/11/2024

Country A: Estonia Country B: New Zealand WELL WELL WELL.

the antipode of Tallinn, Estonia is in the South Pacific Ocean with the closest city to it being Waitangi, New Zealand

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Placeholder Gameworks @placeholder.games · 21/11/2024

Thank you all for following us ^_^ We hit 1000 followers quite fast, and that makes me feel very warm inside🔥 I hope you've been enjoying your time over here! The Puppet Duo is celebrating with us :3 (the bright magenta color will be replaced by team color 😅)

one puppet is standing on top of the other, swinging their cleaver

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Placeholder Gameworks @placeholder.games · 16/11/2024

Hello to all new followers! Happy to have you here 😍 I'm gonna try and post a lot more cool updates about CraftCraft and Broken Alliance here. Meanwhile, we're part of the Cozy Quest event on Steam! Give the demo a whirl, or check out @leeneofficial.bsky.social playing it! Wishlists also help!🥰

picture of the CraftCraft Steam Store page showcasing our presence in the Cozy Quest steam event

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Placeholder Gameworks @placeholder.games · 16/11/2024

A little peek at our new and improved fog of war in Broken Alliance ^_^ it's very fluffy.

screenshot of Broken Alliance showing the Anchorage starting area and showcasing the new fog of war

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Placeholder Gameworks @placeholder.games · 23/10/2024

The indie game we're making a three of the inspirations behind it.

a screenshot of Broken Alliance, an adventure strategy game being made by Placeholder Gameworks

Box art of King's Bounty, the legend, an inspiration for Broken Alliance

Box art of Disciples II: Dark Prophecy, another inspiration for Broken Alliance

Box art of Heroes of Might and Magic II, one of the main inspirations for Broken Alliance

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Placeholder Gameworks @placeholder.games · 21/10/2024

Some stats from Next Fest! It's good to be in the Next Fest closest to your release. For us it was this one for both our games. There seems to be a clear favourite between the two, but both games did very well. Demo installs are still growing! Hopefully this will give us a boost for release ^_^

Broken Alliance wishlists currently stand at 10585 net wishlists.

Broken Alliance got 150-300 wishlists per day every day of the Next Fest. There were some spikes before, from some pre-Next Fest coverage.

CraftCraft wishlists currently stand at 25135 net wishlists.

CraftCraft started raking in wishlists immediately as Next Fest started, peaking at 950 wishlists per day for 2 days in a row so far. It got quite popular.

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