Emergent storytelling and attachment to heroes
Mentioned in ~1 in 2 positive reviews
“Your heroes don't just level up; they age, fall in love, lose limbs, and eventually retire, or die in a blaze of glory.”
Steam review · 12.6 h played ↗
Wildermyth
Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.
Very Positive · 95%Very Positive · 95%Worldwalker Games LLC2021Party-Based RPG · Turn-Based Tactics · Tactical RPG
$24.99
Open on Steam ↗US Steam price, checked 5 h ago
The verdict
A charming papercraft tactics game and story generator where heroes age, transform and pass on legacies. Skip it if you dislike heavy reading, odd prose, or repetitive events and simple combat.
Great for
Tabletop/D&D fans who love emergent stories, attached heroes, and co-op with friends
Main risk
Odd, text-heavy writing and repeating events with simple combat can bore you
What players love
Fun, accessible tactical combat
Mentioned in ~1 in 3 positive reviews
“the real fun for me is in the combat. It's engaging, versatile, and sufficiently challenging.”
Steam review · 79.6 h played ↗
Tabletop/D&D feel, great in co-op
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews
“the best LAN co-op game I've ever played. We love every second of it.”
Steam review · 44.3 h played ↗
Charming papercraft art and music
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews
“The papercraft visual style is charming, unique, and perfectly captures the vibe of a living storybook.”
Steam review · 12.6 h played ↗
Legacy system and transformations
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews
“I love how at the end of each campaign all your hero's can get immortalized and have the ability to come up in later campaigns recruitment missions.”
Steam review · 20.6 h played ↗
High replayability
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 positive reviews
“it has an amazing amount of re-playability and is downright addicting!”
Steam review · 249.3 h played ↗
What players complain about
Shallow combat and few classes
Mentioned in ~1 in 3 negative reviews
“The tactical battles are way too simplistic.”
Steam review · 41.6 h played ↗
Repetitive events and gameplay
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“The same events would happen to my new characters, the interactions no longer felt new or dynamic”
Steam review · 7.2 h played ↗
Procedural stories feel incoherent and meaningless
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“you can’t tell a GOOD story with procedurally-generated sentences that are randomly strung together.”
Steam review · 6 h played ↗
Weak, odd or overly purple writing
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“the writing is, to put it mildly, an insane word salad.”
Steam review · 2.7 h played ↗
Too much reading and clicking through comics
Mentioned in ~1 in 6 negative reviews
“317 clicks to see comic panel after comic panel to finally be able to advance the story?”
Steam review · 2.8 h played ↗
Poor multiplayer implementation
Mentioned in ~1 in 30 negative reviews
“multiplayer has critical issues that render the game unplayable”
Steam review · 1 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: VerifiedController support2 GB
Minimum
OSWindows 7+
Processori3 or better
Memory3 GB RAM
GraphicsOpen GL 3.2
Storage2 GB available space
OSWindows 7+
Processori3 or better
Memory3 GB RAM
GraphicsOpen GL 3.2
Storage2 GB available space
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