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Galdrcode · Published by Galdrcode · Official site ↗
Last updated 28 Sept 2026
Dark Workshop Simulator is a first-person dark-fantasy shop sim. World events: plagues, war bands, shifting prices, keep suppliers unpredictable and demand in constant flux. Explore and unlock new rooms, brew potions, forge weapons, and sell to a clientele that is always a little strange.
Simulation · 2026 · More free games
About this game
Step behind the counter of your own emporium, where adventurers, alchemists, and creatures of uncertain allegiance come to spend their gold. You set the prices, stock the shelves, and manage whatever walks through the door. Whether anyone leaves satisfied is largely up to you.
Run It Your Way
Order from a network of shadowy suppliers, fill your shelves before the doors open, and serve a clientele that ranges from desperate to dangerous. Open when you're ready, close when you've had enough. Nobody tells you what to sell or what to charge. Push your prices to the edge of what the market will bear, refuse a customer, ignore a supplier. The shop answers to you and no one else.
Let the Place Rot
Blood, grime, and things you'd rather not identify build up on the floor as the days pass. Good. Your customers are not the sort who want a clean shop. The filthier the emporium, the more at home they feel, and the longer they linger over your shelves. Anyone who came here expecting a tidy storefront wandered into the wrong establishment.
Guests You Did Not Invite
Thieves slip items into their coats the moment your back is turned. Confront them yourself or let your guard zombie deal with it. Strange travelers arrive between shop days with requests you may regret accepting, and the occasional bulk buyer empties an entire shelf in one visit, for better or worse.
Some Customers Need Convincing
Now and then something comes through the door that will not be reasoned with. It thrashes through your shop, scatters your stock, and drives off paying customers. Reach for the hammer under the counter and settle it the direct way. Nobody is calling the guard, and the guard would not come.
A Market That Never Sits Still
Plagues spike demand for medicine. War bands drain your weapon stock in days. A witch-hunter edict turns a shelf of potions into contraband nobody will touch. These are not small daily price wobbles, they reshape the whole economy, and you get warning before each one arrives. Rumors reach the shop first. Stockpile ahead of the crowd and you make a fortune. Guess wrong and you are sitting on a room full of goods nobody wants.
Grow Your Workshop
Your shop starts small, but locked chambers wait behind every door. A cave of ingredients. A fog-shrouded swamp. A graveyard with its own supply line. A forge for weapons and an alchemy lab for potions. Unlock rooms, arrange shelves and furniture to build your reputation, and raise zombie employees to handle the work you can't cover alone.
The Grimoire
Serve enough customers and survive enough events, and your fame unlocks better suppliers, rarer recipes, and an ancient Grimoire holding a skill tree of permanent upgrades. The shop you end up with looks nothing like the one you started with.
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 / Windows 11 64-bit
- Processor: Intel Core i5-4460 / AMDRyzen 3 1200
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 / AMD Radeon R9 380 (2 GB VRAM)
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 3 GB available space
Recommended
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 / Windows 11 64-bit
- Processor: Intel Core i5-8400 / AMD Ryzen 5 2600
- Memory: 16 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB / AMD Radeon RX 580
- DirectX: Version 12
- Storage: 3 GB available space
Supported Languages
*languages with full audio support
Latest news
AnnouncementsOfficial
Five languages, new display settings, and a wide-screen fix
Five languagesThe shop now speaks English, Russian, German, Spanish and French. Every menu, item, recipe, contract and line of the Whispering Skull's dialogue is translated, and the game picks your system language automatically on first launch. You can change it any time in Settings.An honest note: every language other than English is machine translated and has not yet been reviewed by a native speaker. It has been checked for the things that break a game, missing text, broken formatting, clipped labels, but not for the things only a native ear catches. If something reads wrong, or worse, unintentionally funny, please tell us. We would rather fix it than pretend it is fine.AudioInterface sound now has \its own volume slider\, separate from sound effects. You can silence button clicks without losing footsteps, crafting and the tillFixesFixed the billboard and journal panels overlapping on 16:10 and other non-16:9 displaysFixed confirmation buttons reading True and False instead of Yes and NoFixed goods knocked off a shelf sometimes landing behind itSped up the customer hit reaction and enlarged the impact effectCleaned up a batch of English typos and punctuation across items, contracts and world eventsRead full article on Community Announcements (antonk)AnnouncementsOfficial
Dark Workshop 0.2.0: The Customers Are Not Grateful
Dark Workshop 0.2.0The demo has had two weeks of heavy work. The shop is prettier, meaner, and considerably more opinionated about how you run it.Customers can turn on you. Most browse politely. Some sweep your stock onto the floor and take a swing at the furniture. Keep the hammer handy, or put a Guard on the payroll.Your furniture breaks. Shelves and racks take real damage now, and somebody has to repair them.Filth pays. A spotless shop unsettles the clientele. Let the place rot a little, and they will thank you for the atmosphere. Prices have consequences. Customers judge every item on the shelf and quietly buy fewer when you get greedy, instead of simply walking out.Haggling at the counter. Hold firm and find out whether they cave, counter, or leave. Your zombie cashier never blinks. Every screen rebuilt on new art, and the Grimoire is now a sprawling web of 54 skills.Plus a long list of fixes to queues, thieves, saves, and audio.Full notes on the website. Come tell us how it goes on Discord.Read full article on Community Announcements (antonk)Patch NotesOfficial
Update 0.1.3 - Journal System & Tutorial Rework
This update focuses on giving players clearer direction after the tutorial and polishing the experience.Journal & ObjectivesPress J to open your Journal. Objectives unlock as your fame grows, reward gold on completion, and a waypoint system points you toward your next goal.Skip TutorialA checkbox on New Game lets returning players skip the tutorial entirely, with everything properly unlocked from the start.UI PolishRestyled multiple panels (Journal, Employee cards, Quest dialogs, Ordering view) for better readability and visual consistency.Gameplay Improvements- Contracts can pull items from shelves, not just storage- Furniture placement shows border outlines for better visibility- World events now trigger at fame 4Bug Fixes- Fixed customer AI getting stuck- Fixed tutorial step requiring wrong number of transactions- Fixed encounter NPCs ignoring their designated position- Fixed world event completion falsely triggering on loadFull details on the website.Read full article on Community Announcements (antonk)Patch NotesOfficial
Update 0.1.2 - The Living Village Update
The biggest update since the demo launched. The shop stopped being a vending machine and started being a place in a village.Word of MouthDemand is now earned. Assign an item to a shelf and word starts spreading. Keep it stocked and demand grows. Pull it and the village forgets. You can now specialize: run a potions shop, a weapons den, whatever you want. Nobody asks for things you never sold.Item RarityEvery item is now Common, Uncommon, or Rare. Rare stock brings better margins and more thieves. Your shelves are now a risk-versus-reward decision.Bulk DiscountsOrder x10 for 20% off. Order x50 for 40% off. All shown clearly on the ordering screen.Angry CustomersUnhappy customers now walk to the problem shelf, react visibly, and complain out loud. Same penalties, no longer invisible.More in this update:The skull has ambient opinions and reacts to shop eventsCarried items sway with your footsteps, crates kick up dust on landingGold counter and fame bar now animate smoothlyTutorial popups cut from 26 to 16Faster fame progression for the demoNew font with localization support for five languagesFull devlog with details on every change: https://galdrcode.com/products/dark-workshop-simulatorRead full article on Community Announcements (antonk)Patch NotesOfficial
Patch 0.1.1 - Rare Goods, Smarter Villagers, Stocking Polish
Shopkeepers, A fresh patch crawls from the workshop. Your shelves now tell a story - and the village is listening.New SystemsItem Rarity - Items are now Common, Uncommon, or Rare, with color-coded borders in the UI. Rarer goods fetch more attention... from customers and thieves alike.Word-of-Mouth Demand - Customers no longer ask for random wares. Stock an item on your shelves and the village learns about it over time. Remove it, and they forget. Your shelves shape your reputation.Thief Attraction - Thieves now target rare items and show up more frequently when you display valuable goods. The rarer your wares, the bolder the rats.Bug FixesFixed a rare freeze when a quest dialog and customer transaction triggered at the same time.Fixed stocker employees stealing crates directly out of the player's hands.Fixed stocker pausing for several seconds after picking up a crate. Fixed carried crates snapping upward when bumping into walls or shelves.The darkness deepens. Mind your shelves.Read full article on Community Announcements (antonk)
