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The Wandering Village is a city-building simulation game on the back of a giant, wandering creature. Build your settlement and form a symbiotic relationship with the colossus. Will you survive together in this hostile, yet beautiful post-apocalyptic world, contaminated by poisonous plants?
The Wandering Village is a early access, building and sandbox game
developed by Stray Fawn Studio
and published by Stray Fawn Publishing and WhisperGames.
Released on September 14th 2022 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux
in 14 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Arabic, Turkish and Italian.
It has received 5,986 reviews of which 5,457 were positive and 529 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.8 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 29.99€ on Steam.
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Windows
- OS *: Windows® 7, Windows® 10
- Processor: Quad Core Processor
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: GeForce GTX 660, Radeon RX 460 or similar dedicated graphics card
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 2 GB available space
- Additional Notes: GPU with Shader Model 5.0 required.
MacOS
- OS: macOS 10.13 or newer
- Processor: Quad Core Processor
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Metal capable Intel and AMD GPUs
- Storage: 2 GB available space
- Additional Notes: M1 Macs are compatible too
Linux
- OS: Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 18.04, and CentOS 7
- Processor: Quad Core Processor
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: OpenGL 3.2+, Vulkan capable
- Storage: 2 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Nvidia and AMD GPUs using Nvidia official proprietary graphics driver or AMD Mesa graphics driver.
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I've played only a bit, on a game with slowed research modifiers, and will probably wait until the game leaves early access to play more - don't want to "spoil" too much of it for myself before that. But the impression I've got from the game is quite positive, it's already a very competent city building game that can be either relaxing or challenging depending on game setup choices.
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I love this game, and have loved this game since I first laid eyes on it. It was before any of the big updates, it was a very small game at the time and I'm always here to support small devs. This game... Man, this game. It's so good. From the little people all marching around, holding things above their heads, the little wags of Onbu's tail and tongue when he's happy, the sounds of grumbles of his belly when he's upset, and the ideas that I've been given by my gf where kids of the villagers will just sometimes sit in big circles and start petting his back, hoping that the Onbu feels their love for him just makes my heart melt and my eyes weep. THIS game. THIS ONE RIGHT HERE. Big 'ol six legged, dinosaur puppy. I like to name him Onney, for Onney the Onbu. Onney is our friend and we take care of our friend. Thank you for this game, Stray fawn, we love you.
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In The Wandering Village (EA Build 0.10.6), you adapt to changing biomes while building a settlement on the back of a giant walking rock monster. It's a little Ghibli-esque, generally relaxing, and simple enough to learn; I'm having enough fun with it so far to recommend it. What Works For Me ✅ The anime-style character and building art is reminiscent of old-school Ghibli. Also, Onbu is adorable. ✅ You can form a mutualistic symbiotic relationship with Onbu by studying it, directing it, catapulting mushrooms into its mouth (which is adorable), and healing it; or, if you're a sociopath, you can chop off its horns and whip it. Your actions affect Onbu's trust in you, which affects its behavior: if it trusts you, it wags its tail and roams around with head held high like a good rock-dog; but if it doesn't, you deserve what you get. ✅ You can zoom all the way in to spy on your villagers or all the way out to the board-game-like map using only your mouse scroll wheel. ✅ When you come to a fork in the road, Onbu gives you a moment to choose (by zooming out to the map and clicking the path you want) before forging ahead; different paths have different "road events" that can yield supplies or new nomads. You can also dispatch scavengers to collect rare items from nearby map locations. ✅ Onbu wanders into different biomes with varying air toxicity, temperature, and humidity. Poisonous air makes your villagers and Onbu sick; temperature affects which crops can grow; and humidity impacts how much water you can harvest. This is a really cool mechanic. ✅ Long research trees! ✅ While relatively slow-paced and chill on regular speed, 3X speed is pretty good for management junkies. I was bored even at 3X speed in Flotsam , but it feels like there's always more to do here. What Doesn’t Work For Me ❎ If there's a way to play the campaign without the tutorial, I haven't figured it out yet. The tutorial is seemingly endless and always sitting on the side of your screen, telling you what to do next, and just - shut up, game, I do what I want. ❎The UI is… not great. Villager happiness metrics look more complicated than they are, and the constant red indicators when your air wells stop working or your villagers go on temporary hunger-strikes are more disruptive than helpful. ❎I hate the storage system. The different workstations have internal storage, and overflow materials can be stored in chests; but instead of a general capacity, chests holds (75) of each resource. This means that if you have (400) wood logs, the chest next to your chopping area holds (75) logs and (75) clay and (75) whatever, and the rest of your wood piles will be scattered across Onbu's back until someone eventually relocates them to another chest. ❎Villager AI is not smart. My nomads were tired of eating raw berries and beets, so I installed a kitchen and churned out enough berry museli to feed an army. Happiness increased but villagers started to starve; instead of going to the kitchen or the pantries for some museli, they insist on walking by these buildings to eat berries off the bush. ❎ Dirt roads can only be placed orthogonally, and the 2D buildings can't be rotated; the end result looks a little awkward on Onbu's more 3D back. Final Thoughts So far, Wandering Village feels like a chill cozy game with just enough depth to be interesting over time. I particularly like that certain crops only grow in certain climates, and that you can relocate resources like berry bushes to designated areas. I also cannot state enough how much I love Onbu. That said, I'm growing increasingly irritated with the UI, villagers refusing to eat prepared food, the storage system, and how the town looks. It has more content than Flotsam by far, but I love planning logistics and supply chains, and that's just not possible here. Recommendation I would recommend this to Ghibli fans, cozy gamers, and anyone else who read Discworld so long ago that you only remember the elephants and turtle. If you want to bond with a big old rock dog while building and evolving a settlement in a poisonous world, you're going to have fun. If you were more interested in the mechanics of building a civilization on a moving platform than you are in loving the best boi ever, then [url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/2438680/Airborne_Empire/?curator_clanid=45365863]Airbone Empire might be the perfect fit for you. Alternatively, if you just want to build something pretty in a mostly-relaxed environment (with some supply chain management), I personally love [url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/2438680/Airborne_Empire/?curator_clanid=45365863&curator_listid=138164]Fabledeom . Follow [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45365863/]Eekz Today for more crafting, life sim, management, strategy, and story-rich recommendations.
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Really cool Nausicca of the Valley of the Wind vibe. Pretty good updates. :D
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10 out of 10 Don't let the smooth art style and vibrant atmosphere fool you. Yes many reviews call this game "cute" and "fun" but they haven't played on veteran difficulty with all of hostility modifiers activated. Oh? You think you have good resource management? You think you're a hardcore gamer? Good micro AND macro skills? Download this game. Unlock veteran difficulty and then max hostility. Develop any strategy you want (there are many) for avoiding starvation, sickness and death for your people while struggling to keep that damn dinosaur alive. All for the slight possibility that you can reach a sustainable state of resource production - one of the most satisfying feelings out there, period. The entire game is a balancing act. Focus too much on one area, and another will inevitably suffer. Fail to plan ahead, and you're dead before you know it. At the hardest possible difficulty you MUST get creative and gamble on the resources you have and the ones you hope to come across. While this game frustrates the hell out of me, I keep coming back because each time I lose, it's my own fault. I can always see something I could have done better. Sure, there are some random elements to the game that feel out of your control, but that's life brother. There are so many factors you have to constantly keep an eye on and when you successfully prepare for those unknowns and get past them, it is extremely rewarding. So come on you weenie, play the game at it's most challenging level and come back and tell me I'm wrong, I'll wait.
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The Wandering Village is currently priced at 29.99€ on Steam.
The Wandering Village is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 29.99€ on Steam.
The Wandering Village received 5,457 positive votes out of a total of 5,986 achieving a rating of 8.82.
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The Wandering Village was developed by Stray Fawn Studio and published by Stray Fawn Publishing and WhisperGames.
The Wandering Village is playable and fully supported on Windows.
The Wandering Village is playable and fully supported on MacOS.
The Wandering Village is playable and fully supported on Linux.
The Wandering Village is a single-player game.
There are 2 DLCs available for The Wandering Village. Explore additional content available for The Wandering Village on Steam.
The Wandering Village does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
The Wandering Village does not support Steam Remote Play.
The Wandering Village 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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188
Developer
Stray Fawn Studio
Publisher
Stray Fawn Publishing,
WhisperGames
Release
14 Sep 2022
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