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Embark on an enchanting journey and brave ferocious creatures in an immersive medieval fantasy world. Will you settle a new homestead to live a life of farming and trade, or pick up the sword and take up the adventurers' path?
Mirthwood is a rpg, sandbox and farming sim game
developed by Bad Ridge Games
and published by V Publishing.
Released on November 06th 2024 is available only on Windows
in 11 languages: English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Russian, Portuguese - Brazil and Traditional Chinese.
It has received 1,975 reviews of which 1,409 were positive and 566 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.9 out of 10. 😐
The game is currently priced at 24.50€ on Steam.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 64 bit
- Processor: Dual-core CPU @ 2Ghz
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 1080, AMD Radeon RX 5700
- Storage: 8 GB available space
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If I had a “maybe” option for a recommendation, I’d check it. After about ten hours in, I’ve been pulled in by what Mirthwood could be—and frustrated by where it falls short. Let’s start with the high-points. The music and voice-overs set an atmospheric tone so strong I kept pausing just to take a moment and listen. The graphics are storybook-beautiful, charming in a way that whispers “cozy medieval fantasy” but with a bit of grit. I’ve been waiting for a grimdark lifelike farming sim—“a harvest-moon meets middle-ages” kind of game—and Mirthwood is fulfilling that fantasy. The crafting loop is deep and fun: gathering, refining, building, outfitting—there’s real joy in mixing and matching furniture, walls, floors, and even tailoring your character’s look with armor, greaves, helmets and under-armor. On those fronts: 10/10. But... here’s where the cracks show. The systems I love are stellar, but others—including ones I care deeply about—just don’t land. Relationships and NPCs. I think many devs chasing the success of something like Stardew Valley underestimate how much we care about characters. In Stardew we know each villager, their quirks, their arc. In Mirthwood the folks feel like walking text-boxes: no personality, no heart. I don’t care about them. A weak social system is especially glaring when the game teases NPC death mechanics (coming in an update) but I’m hardly invested enough to care when the mechanic triggers. That disconnect is echoed across several reviews. Combat. It’s clunky. Moving a 2D‐style character in a 3D space, fighting, especially with a bow—just feels awkward. I roll past an enemy, swing the wrong way, miss entirely. Based on external reviews: “enemies constantly jump backwards to avoid attacks… you can only perform combat actions while facing left or right” CGMagazine “archery… tricky to use… precision feels nearly impossible” Gamerheads Podcast Yes, melee feels okay, but the lack of a proper lock-on system like classic titles (e.g., The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time) makes fights frustrating rather than fun. Farming & loop issues. On the upside, you can play in a “build up your homestead” mode, which I love. But some systems drag: seeds are costly; upgrades require massive material investment; and there’s a sense of going in circles. One reviewer said: “My character still hasn’t managed more than one tool upgrade after 20 hours.” PC Gamer (someone doesent know how to grind like a pro lol) And others point to performance problems—frame rate drops, stutters—which hamper immersion. Overall? Yes—you should play Mirthwood. It is absolutely worth your time if you’re drawn to its artistic vision, the sandbox-life chase, the crafting aesthetic. But go in knowing it’s a “beautifully imperfect” piece right now. It’s as much about promise as it is about present execution. If you’re someone who cares most about character heart, super tight combat, or ultra-polished systems—I’d wait for the next major update. But if you’re happy wandering, building, crafting, and immersing in mood, you’re in for a treat.
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Solid game, just needs quite a bit more polish before it leaves early access. Early game is quite awkward in terms of progression, but overall fun. It's like an RPG enjoyer's version of that other famous farm game. EDIT: It's been fully released... yeah nah needs more work. Now that co-op and family is implemented they can iron out the bugs.
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The game is still very much in active development and being worked on by a tiny independent team; which can mean that there are changes and new bugs from time to time and it's not a fully polished gaming experience. However, somehow it just scratches a certain itch for me. I love the art style and the narrator is top notch. Mirthwood's voice actress, Vicki-jo Eva, was even nominated recently for the One Voice Award for best performance in gaming for UK females and I think it's well earned. She's great, I could listen to her read the phone book. The world is a little bit gloomy and the stories are on the darker side, but I can still make my little farm and fix up my ruined farmhouse. I can still potter around the large open map and gather resources and find creepy foes, creepy places and even some creepy allies. It won't be everyone's cup of tea, but if you really want a game that's darker than Stardew Valley, less cursed than Graveyard Keeper, and lets you spend as long as you like on a fairly low commitment adventure, then it may be yours. If you want a fully polished game, then maybe add it to your wishlist and watch it for a while longer, but for where it's at, there's still plenty to do and enjoy.
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General opinion The Game is a bit rough around the edges, very atmospheric, seasons are beautifull, gemplay mechanics a bit clunky and can anoy at times, but will recomend, the game has what you would call "love put into it", still jar needs more filling to be complete ^^ Game Performance and Economy/Progression Performance Mirthwood can run on lower frames quite often, the "Home plot" after 3 seasons can be tanky after you build up your plot. Beside that exploration does not suffer from performance issues beside occasional stutter while autosaving. Economy/Progression Economy, game is quite rough on the aspect of hunger managment at the start, you need ton of food to keep going, its not that hard after you start hunting and harvesting your crops but beggining is quite rough, mid game when you want to expand your plots invest into farming animals start as a hard punch in the guts, farm animals are expensive, same as buildings requierd if you want to make it fancy. Overall seems a bit overpriced for what you get, but it does look nice What i would like to see changed/implemented Game has good crafting system that can seek materials in chests nearby, (by nearby i mean like 5-6 feet distance) Would be nice if system worked on a bigger scale for example chaining storage "connections" so that you could make more aesthetically pleasing crafting areas. Good idea would also be showing either lines connecting crafting stations when placing storage or showing area of influence while placing the chests potentialy highlithing crafting stations that will feed from the storage. One thing that bothered me is toiling the soil, what i did not like it is that the whole process is finnicky, example after season change your plants that have miltiple harvests (peas/grapes/corn) do die in diffrent intervals, what happens is that dead bush stays if you do not cut it in time the toiled soil underneath disapears forcing you to either cut dead bush when it apears (for example 3 plots died in 12 plot field) and quickly plant another thing so that you wont need to toil the soil again, if you let it stay to long you may find yourself in place that i was, somehow you wont be able to toil it again in the same spot forcing you to change plot configuration again, i do endjoy snug fit and cosy clutered aesthetic so yea xD had to fight it alot because of it :) Last thing: the fishing quest at the coastline, for the last part "catch a lobster" i thing wise idea would be to change the quest test to "catch a lobster using a wooden basket" since mechanic was changed :) i fished out like 12 pearls after i found out you cannot catch it with a fishing pole xD
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Devs are active. Many game's start rough, thankfully many of them turn out to be amazing. High hopes for Mirthwood. I love the art and overall feel of this game.
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Mirthwood is currently priced at 24.50€ on Steam.
Mirthwood is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 24.50€ on Steam.
Mirthwood received 1,409 positive votes out of a total of 1,975 achieving a rating of 6.92.
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Mirthwood was developed by Bad Ridge Games and published by V Publishing.
Mirthwood is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Mirthwood is not playable on MacOS.
Mirthwood is not playable on Linux.
Mirthwood is a single-player game.
Mirthwood does not currently offer any DLC.
Mirthwood does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Mirthwood supports Remote Play Together. Discover more about Steam Remote Play.
Mirthwood is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Game modes
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Online players
20
Developer
Bad Ridge Games
Publisher
V Publishing
Release
06 Nov 2024
Platforms
Remote Play