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Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game
A story-driven Survival/ Farm RPG about learning to live after loss. Explore 7 emotional story arcs tackling love, grief, purpose & struggle of many kinds. Farm, Forage, Hunt and Craft to endure the deserts of 1860's Oregon (on casual/ challenge). Walk the path from mere survival to something more.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-28.
“This is a farming sim first, a story about your relationship with your sibling second, and a romantic visual novel third. I don't say that to imply I'm unhappy- I specifically bought the game for the grumpy brother energy and the hugs. It's to set your expectations about what…”
— a player, Steam review · 34 hrs played“I essentially played this for 8hrs straight. This is a project that is very obviously created by a small team, so expectations must be tempered. However, this is not a critique, just a reality. And undeniably, Veil of Dust oozes with love. You can see it in the writing. Each…”
— a player, Steam review · 11 hrs played“A unique setting for a harvest moon-adjacent game, Veil of Dust tells the tale of Aine and Shane Callahan, Irish immigrants to the Americas in the 1800s. The game initially looks to be just an older style harvest moon where you follow the story of the impoverished siblings and…”
— a player, Steam review · 22 hrs playedAchievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-28.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Descent of the Hunted to release on 2/23/24 as part of the Women's Day sale
Hello! The QA phase (in preparation for release) for Descent of the Hunted is well underway, so I'm right on track. This game has been an interesting departure from Veil of Dust (our previous game) in
Veil of Dust is now launched to V1!
Today's the big day: Veil of Dust is now launched to V1! Four new romances - for a combined extra replay of around 20 hours - and a variety of other game enhancements await you with the full release u
Veil of Dust: Full Game V1 coming Late March/ Early April
Hello Dusty Pals/ Dust-ites/ Dust heads, We're finally rounding the bend on having all our story content implemented with the remaining 4 romance arcs added, and thus, a full version 1! (Insert trumpe
Shane protagonist / Town addition update now live and ready to play!
Hello! The update we mentioned previously is a-go! This brings us up to 2/3 of our full game and such, we're raising the price to $11.99 to be in-line with the amount of content. (The final price will
Our Dec 11th release will bring us to around 2/3 of the complete game!
Our next big release is coming up fast! As the last post mentions, this release implements Shane as a playable character and realizes our vision of the Fantasy/ History experience split - Shane's adve
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-28.
| Genres | Adventure, Casual, RPG, Simulation |
| Player tags | Farming Sim · Life Sim · Survival · Story Rich · Romance · Historical · Crafting · Conversation · Narrative · Old School · Base-Building · Fantasy (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English |
| Achievements | 17 |
| Official site | https://calamitybaygames.com/games/veil-of-dust |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS: Windows 10 Processor: Intel Core i5 Memory: 4 GB RAM Storage: 650 MB available space