Remarkable new indie adventure The Wandering Village has finally lumbered into Early Access via Steam.
Available right now and promising an absolutely beautiful journey ahead of us, The Wandering Village is a stunning and rather unique city building sim where players thrust into a mythical land must hop aboard a mammoth wandering creature and make a homestead while on the go. This very different twist to on the go gaming requires a mix of strategy and management that is more than simple forecasting. While aboard the wonderous Onbu, players will need to build, buy, and tend to everything that a village needs. While expanding the core of any homestead, you’ll grow crops to feed the hungry population of this title.
Story of Seasons, Littlewood, and other genre staples don’t find you on the back of a roaming giant, however. While the foundations of this town ramble form place to place, players will have an opportunity to forge a relationship with. This benevolent beast and influence its decision. Each new region of the overworld opens up opportunities to go gather rare resources to bring back to the village, and the unpredictable nature of the environments you head into can mean spreadsheet forecasting is out the window.
Developer Stray Fawn Studio look to have crafted something more than a simple social sim or a farm and forget. The Wandering Village already had our attention with it’s wonderful mix of hand drawn and 3D animation, a theme that seems to draw inspiration from Howl’s Moving Castle, and Hayao Miyazaki’s Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, but maybe not Mortal Engines.
We’re going to be getting a ticket, and you can too. The Wandering Village is available now on PC, Linux, and Mac via Steam for $24.99. An Early Access launch discount of 10% is still available, and Xbox owners can expect it to step into Xbox Game Preview in 2023.
