Dawnsweeper press kit

Fact sheet

Game: Dawnsweeper
Developer and publisher: Uthentic, Inc
Release date: November 2026
Platforms: iPhone and iPad (iOS 15 or later), Android (7.0 or later, 64-bit)
Price: free, no ads; one in-app purchase, Peaceful mode, $1.99
Stores: App Store (link when live) · Google Play (link when live)
Players: one
Language: English
Engine: Godot
Art: Minifantasy by Krishna Palacio; music and sound by Leohpaz and Ovani Sound; no generative AI was used in the art or the sound
Website: https://dawnsweeper.com
Contact: [email protected]

Short description

Dawnsweeper is an infinite Minesweeper where the Creep crawls back over every edge you leave open, and settlers build villages on the ground you hold. You never command them. Every flag you plant and every number you satisfy is a wall between their homes and the Creep.

Long description

Dawnsweeper starts as Minesweeper: honest number clues, reveal, flag and chord, a 15 by 15 home square ringed by a fort of mines you can solve by deduction alone. Then the board keeps going, and it pushes back. Every few minutes the Tide comes, and the Creep takes one layer of ground from every edge you left unsealed. A number with all its mines flagged turns green, and the Creep can’t cross it. Left alone, the Creep darkens through five levels, sends out monsters and wakes Nests.

Behind your wall, settlers arrive. Each has a name, a family, a trade and a nature. They build halls, farms and workshops, dig up the mines you flagged to make room, marry, adopt, quarrel, keep four festivals a year, and belong to five peoples, Humans, Elves, Orcs, Dwarves and desert Humans, who trade with each other. You can read any settler’s card and any village’s history, but you can’t give an order. The only way to help is to keep sweeping.

The game’s one rule of tone: only the Creep and its monsters kill. Hunger and poverty bring hardship and people leaving, never death, and old Creep near a village is something you see coming in time to act.

A tester’s 24-hour world once grew 47 villages and 1,322 people, too many to care about. The game now keeps a long world to at most eight villages that grow into towns, so the ones you have are ones you know.

Free on the App Store and Google Play, with no ads. Peaceful mode, which freezes the Creep, is a single $1.99 purchase.

Features

An infinite Minesweeper with honest clues: tap to reveal, long-press to flag, tap a green number to clear around it
The Creep retakes unsealed edges every Tide; green numbers are walls it can’t cross
Five levels of Creep, monsters from old Creep, named Nests you kill by clearing their ring
Settlers you never command, who dig up your flagged mines to make room to grow
Names, families, adoption, friends and rivals, old age; a card for every settler and animal
A year in an hour: seasons, harvests, winter stores, four festivals per people
Real goods: workshops, carters with donkeys, market evenings, trade between peoples
Humans, Elves, Orcs, Dwarves and desert Humans, each living its own way
Dread you can see coming, flight and homecoming, heroes, heirlooms, monuments
A handful of villages you know by name, growing into towns with quarters and roads
Peaceful mode ($1.99, once): the Creep frozen in any world, on or off any time
Several worlds, continuous saving, export and import
Portrait and landscape
No ads, no account, no data collected
Minifantasy pixel art and human-made music and sound; no generative AI was used in either

Assets

Full-size originals, captured from the game. Download everything (zip, 9.1 MB)

Phone screenshots

Version 1.4.0, as on the store listings. PNG, 1080 × 1920.

Landscape screenshots

From a 1.0.0 development build, before the game kept a world to eight villages. PNG, 1920 × 1080.

Logo, icon, art and video

Credits

Uthentic, Inc. Pixel art: Minifantasy by Krishna Palacio (krishna-palacio.itch.io). Music and sound effects: Leohpaz (leohpaz.itch.io). Ambience: Ovani Sound (ovanisound.com). Made with the Godot Engine.

Press questions and interviews: [email protected]