Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
A demo playthrough of Curse of Resthaven, an upcoming narrative roguelite where you're the new governor that takes the job to find your missing niece. However, your predecessor screwed everything up and the island's curse has you stuck in a time loop from a cataclysm destroying everything.
I do like the art, particularly for the creepiness of expeditions and the time looping is pretty interesting (although I do wonder how it'll be explained everyone hating us on the first loop but not doing so from shop upgrades carrying over across loops).
I think some criticisms might be due to the demo's six days broken into two day loops, as this creates a hard time limit that isn't clear will be present in the full game (maybe as an optional mode to add extra difficulty?), though after an initial test run it was pretty easy to set everything up to where this playthrough ends up meandering to do extra expeditions/questioning despite having the demo goals done. Getting the balancing right will probably be tough as upgrading merchants initially seems to provide the best bang for your buck through more valuable goods and getting two of them instead of one though limited merchants per day make this quickly hit a wall (not including that whether you use the gray market or not might have changes to the story). I do think how some stuff is presented isn't that clear as merchant trading sometimes is a bit wonky with how much things sell for (i.e. the merchant wanting pottery but requiring a hefty discount to sell it to them) which I'm guessing is from merchant preferences that aren't revealed until you have increased reputation with them.
So definitely stuff to polish, such as not everything is voiced when that's their intention, but looks pretty promising so far.
Curse of Resthaven can be wishlisted and the demo played at store.steampowered.com/app/3796150/Curse_of_Resthaven
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A demo playthrough of Curse of Resthaven, an upcoming narrative roguelite where you're the new governor that takes the job to find your missing niece. However, your predecessor screwed everything up and the island's curse has you stuck in a time loop from a cataclysm destroying everything.
I do like the art, particularly for the creepiness of expeditions and the time looping is pretty interesting (although I do wonder how it'll be explained everyone hating us on the first loop but not doing so from shop upgrades carrying over across loops).
I think some criticisms might be due to the demo's six days broken into two day loops, as this creates a hard time limit that isn't clear will be present in the full game (maybe as an optional mode to add extra difficulty?), though after an initial test run it was pretty easy to set everything up to where this playthrough ends up meandering to do extra expeditions/questioning despite having the demo goals done. Getting the balancing right will probably be tough as upgrading merchants initially seems to provide the best bang for your buck through more valuable goods and getting two of them instead of one though limited merchants per day make this quickly hit a wall (not including that whether you use the gray market or not might have changes to the story). I do think how some stuff is presented isn't that clear as merchant trading sometimes is a bit wonky with how much things sell for (i.e. the merchant wanting pottery but requiring a hefty discount to sell it to them) which I'm guessing is from merchant preferences that aren't revealed until you have increased reputation with them.
So definitely stuff to polish, such as not everything is voiced when that's their intention, but looks pretty promising so far.
Curse of Resthaven can be wishlisted and the demo played at store.steampowered.com/app/3796150/Curse_of_Resthaven
My Social Media Stuff:
discord.gg/z6WhfmcYXu
twitter.com/CrankyTemplar
