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From the creator of The Stanley Parable and The Beginner’s Guide comes Wanderstop, a narrative-centric cozy game about change and tea.
Wanderstop is a adventure, simulation and farming sim game
developed by Ivy Road
and published by Annapurna Interactive.
Released on March 11th 2025 is available only on Windows
in 11 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese, Korean and Portuguese - Brazil.
It has received 1,756 reviews of which 1,636 were positive and 120 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.9 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 22.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 6.99€ on Gamivo.
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- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Intel Core i5-750 or AMD Phenom II X2 565
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030, 2GB or AMD Radeon R7 370, 2GB or Intel Arc A310, 4GB
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 15 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Low 720p @ 30 FPS
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I've been an advocate for the importance of friction in games for a long time, and people who have heard me rant about this know that I believe very strongly that even "cozy" games benefit from being challenging or even frustrating at times. Wanderstop is not challenging in the traditional way that games usually are- it never asks for particularly precise inputs or timing and there are few if any real consequences for doing a task "wrong"- but Wanderstop is emotionally challenging in a way that I think makes it particularly unique and compelling among games. So often video games are power fantasies. So often video games offer worlds that revolve around the player, where the player has agency, control, the ability to change the world, the ability to accomplish anything, the ability to make clear, quantifiable progress. Wanderstop denies you all these fantasies. Wanderstop is a game where measures of progress are repeatedly wiped. You will grow a beautiful garden, collect lovely trinkets, arrange your space, and then the season will change and it will all be gone. You will meet characters with interesting arcs, and you will not get to see the end of those arcs. Wanderstop is not a power fantasy, it's the opposite. Wanderstop is a game where you are not in control. The world does not revolve around you. It's not about you, or what you want. It just is. But at the same time, Wanderstop takes you gently by the hand, offers you a warm cup of tea, and asks you to make peace with this lack of control. Will you still find meaning in these tasks, knowing that all evidence of them will go away? Will you still connect with these characters, even though they will leave you? Making this cup of tea with these ingredients for this customer won't make any numbers go up. Will you do it anyway? I found it difficult to accept, the first time my progress was wiped by this game. It's so easy to get overly fixated on external markers of progress, in both games and in real life. Wanderstop came to me at a time when I had lost sight of why I was doing the things I was doing, and even though it was difficult, it was ultimately healing to be reminded that sometimes doing a task really is just about the simple pleasure of doing the task. It's a beautiful philosophy that I'd like to see more games adopt, and it's expertly conveyed here.
I don’t know what to say, except that I wasn’t expecting it to hit me this hard. After all, it’s just a game. And yet “just a game” was exactly what I needed. Life is life, and having a medium you can pour yourself into, now and then, matters. At first, I didn’t quite catch the theme. I wanted cozy tea shop management. I got life advice that actually sticks. I stepped away from the game a few times. Saying goodbye to some characters felt like betrayal, or like a shortcut from the devs, and I couldn’t accept it. Then life kept being life, and I had to come back, to learn how to say goodbye. Then I learned to be kinder. Then I learned to allow myself to be. Life is life, and it’s maybe not everyone’s cup of tea. But we do need to fill our cup and rest sometimes. Not run all the time. Not drink it all at once. Saying hello matters as much as saying goodbye, because you never know when it’ll be the last time. In everyone, we can see a slice of our own life. And I guess… I guess I’m okay leaving that cozy shop now, and going back to what I needed to return to. I can trust myself.
its not a game for everyone. it was the game for me. i have cptsd and all i have to say is that the writers nailed it. I do not recommend this game if you are currently in the thick of it. I can only enjoy this game because i have grown to the point that the narrative isn't triggering for me. they got it right.
Reading the reviews, you can easily get the impression that you need to play this game at the right time. That you need to relate to the protagonist to unlock the emotional core for yourself. I want to offer a kind of counterpoint, as someone who doesn't really relate to Alta at all, but still found themselves pulled into the story. It's a strange thing with Davey Wreden's games. I would consider myself a big fan of his work, yet whenever I start playing a game of his, I feel disappointed at first, only to fall in love the more I think about it and the more time I spend with it. His games are so different to each other that you really can't expect a certain thing with them. Whereas The Stanley Parable and even The Beginners Guide had a narrative irony and a meta tone to them, Wanderstop upholds illusion and sincerity the entire way through. It still employs some narrative misdirection, but it never does an ironic 180 like The Beginners Guide. That being the case, it's easy to misunderstand this game intitially. To think that it's a low-story cozy game that makes a point with its concept. I advise everyone to stick with the shallow-seeming writing for a while and remember that this is a game thought up by someone who knows how to write a dang story. Ultimately, it's about Alta's struggles. It's about feelings of inadequacy, burnout, trauma, repression and mental health in general. The gameplay is deliberately designed to be... well... deliberate. There's no automating and very little optimizing. You just do the things you do. Step by step, at whatever pace you want. They are instant and simple, letting you either click and work restlessly or accept that you can sometimes stand around doing nothing of consequence. This is a real strong point, as it can evoke many different emotions in you depending on how you play. Resistance to the mundanity is painful and exhausting while embracing the low-consequence freedom can transition you into a state of serene calmness. How Long to Beat states this game as 10-12 hours to complete on average. I did it in 17, not because I was ever stuck, but because I gardened, decorated and just made and drank tea a lot. I strongly recommend you have Alta try all the different kinds of tea. In my opinion it is crucial for chatacterization. The writing of her thoughts on the different brews is better than much of the mandatory story sequences actually. But this is what I mean - my experience with this game wasn't a ludo-narrative one. What the gameplay meant to me was much different from what it did to Alta. I felt a disconnect from the character, but I still understood her. And that was powerful. My experience foiled her's, making it even more emotional. So no, this isn't "the game for you if you are prone to burnout". This is simply a well-crafted story, whether you relate to it or not. The first chapter is setup. It's hard to get through because there's very little story. In fact, the game seems to almost belittle you when you try to find a sincere narrative. The opening monolgue is super cliché and over the top, characters shatter the seeming fantasy setting with anachronistic talk and potential concepts and storylines are undermined by fluffy jokes and narrative irony. At one point you can ask for a detailed explanation of how the forest works, but if you do, you literally get: "The forest is magical." I felt like the game was making a point to me that I had already learned, thus making my experience kind of pointless. But the story does somewhat go back on this later. It's halfway through chapter two that the narrative starts to develop and character depth and deeper themes start to form. It was here that the fact that Alta had not learned the point which had been obvious to me, became an experience. The writing stays fairly literal, making the metaphors into something diegetic and tangible. This is both a weakness and a strength as it does remove some room for interpretation, but also enables the emotional core to be a concrete part of the story. Ultimately, the choice is yours. You can resist the game in it's simplicity and seeming pointlessness, like Alta, or you can let it grow on you and find a different truth. It's a sound, unqiue emotional journey either way.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Wanderstop is currently priced at 22.99€ on Steam.
No, Wanderstop is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 22.99€ on Steam.
Yes, Wanderstop received 1,636 positive votes out of a total of 1,756 achieving a rating of 8.86.
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Wanderstop was developed by Ivy Road and published by Annapurna Interactive.
Yes, Wanderstop is playable and fully supported on Windows.
No, Wanderstop is not playable on MacOS.
No, Wanderstop is not playable on Linux.
Wanderstop is a single-player game.
Yes, there is a DLC available for Wanderstop. Explore additional content available for Wanderstop on Steam.
No, Wanderstop does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
No, Wanderstop does not support Steam Remote Play.
Yes, Wanderstop 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.
You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for Wanderstop.
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