With The Wandering Village, a game will soon be in Early Access that is primarily intended to appeal to friends of the somewhat different settlement construction and that has cult potential.
The Wandering Village, a whimsical mix of settlement building and survival with rogue-like elements, is going into Early Access on Steam on September 14th. Announced back in August last year, the game offers an original scenario and has the makings of a cult hit. A console version for Xbox is also planned, which will initially be published as a game preview in 2023.
It’s about building settlements in a post-apocalyptic world with a special twist: you build on the back of a giant creature called Onbu, which wanders through different biomes, which always leads to new opportunities, but also challenges. For example, you can send out scouts and gatherers to find rare resources and ancient technologies to better protect against poisonous spores, unforgiving weather, blood-sucking parasites and much more.
So you don’t just have to worry about resources and sheer survival, but also enter into a functioning symbiosis with the creature, whose physical aspects can sometimes cause annoyance. “It’s entirely possible that a spike grew where the villagers intended to place their kitchen, while a failed harvest could lead to desperation and tempt villagers to draw blood from the creature to feed themselves,” the developers explain.
The Early Access version should contain the most important mechanics such as building, farming, plundering, research or exploration, but it should still be a basic version that is still missing a lot of content and polishing. The game will be continuously expanded during the early access phase, which lasts at least a year, as we are used to from early access.
Settlement building and survival on the back of a giant creature? Goes well with The Wandering Village.
