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A guard walks into a tavern
You are a guard whose job is to post bounties. Try your best to deal with various matters and make money to raise your family. But remember, when various factions come to you, you will have to make choices!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via SteamSpy as of 2026-05-13.
“Not bad, it is a very original idea.”
— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs played“故事线很有趣。通关一次很快，但总想多刷几个结局~意外地挺耐玩的”
— a player, Steam review · 24 hrs played“I can't rate this up or down because it's right in the middle for me. This game is worth it's price, but it's only barely worth its time. A nice Papers Please like game. The writing is pretty good. But the gameplay was stretched and too slow. There were a lot of side gigs with…”
— a player, Steam review · 6 hrs playedLatest official news
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Patch note 2.05+2.06
Hehe! The demo for my new game is done, so I finally have time to work on the mobile port. Optimized a few things while I was at it. Fixed the performance hitching when checking hero bounties. The cul
Patch 2.04
Fixed the issue of not being able to predict the outcome when the hero level is lower than the job level
Patch 2.03
Fixed the issue of not being able to pay properly after sending out support hero.
Patch 2.02
1.Fixed an issue where heroes didn't have numbers from items during battle 2.Fixed support page reset issue
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Casual, Indie, RPG, Simulation |
| Player tags | Choices Matter · Medieval · Simulation · Dark Humor · Story Rich · Fantasy · Interactive Fiction · Life Sim · Multiple Endings · Adventure · 3D Platformer · Idler (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Trading Cards · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | Simplified Chinese, English |
| Achievements | 18 |
| Estimated owners | 50,000 – 100,000 (SteamSpy) |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: gtx960 DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 1 GB available space