The Wandering Village is situated in the city-building simulation genre and focuses on players building a symbiotic relationship with their giant host.

In a world where mysterious plants are spreading all over the earth, emitting toxic spores as they grow, a group of people seeks shelter on the back of a giant, wandering creature. Becoming their leader, players build both their settlement and a symbiotic relationship with the gentle beast to survive together in this hostile, yet beautiful post-apocalyptic world that now surrounds them.

At its core, The Wandering Village is a city-building and resource management game with rogue-like and survival elements. Players need to farm various crops to keep their villagers fed, send out foraging missions to gather rare resources and scout the environment while constantly expanding their settlement. Of course, living on the back of a living, breathing beast comes with its own challenges, such as helping to maintain the creature’s health and building trust, which might even lead to the beast paying attention to your requests as it wanders on through a variety of different biomes, each with its own perks and challenges.

Stray Fawn Studio has announced that The Wandering Village is set to launch into Steam Early Access on September 14th ($24.99) for PC, Mac and Linux.

“The most important features of the game are already there: building, farming, scavenging, research, scouting and giving commands to Onbu, the giant creature. The current version forms an enjoyable gameplay loop, but is still a bit bare-bones, lacking content and polish. We also plan to add more features such as trading with merchants and more advanced scouting mechanics. Also, there are certainly still some bugs that will need to be ironed out.

The full version will have a bigger set of features and more content. We plan to add new building types, new biomes, new events/missions and expand the background story of the game. It will also be more polished, having gone through lots of testing and QA. We are also planning to add controller support to the game alongside other Steam features such as trading cards and achievements. And finally, we're sure players will have lots of interesting ideas during Early Access which we will consider implementing as well.”

The Wandering Village will also make its way to Xbox Game Preview in 2023.

Key Features:

• Build a unique village on the back of a giant creature known as Onbu
• Farm various crops to feed your villagers
• Send out foraging missions to gather rare resources
• Survive a variety of different biomes and events
• Build a relationship with a giant beast and influence its actions
• Research and construct a variety of different buildings
• Ecology/Biology inspired gameplay
• Unique art style with a blend of 3D and hand-drawn, hand-animated 2D graphics

The Wandering Village is coming to Xbox Series X|S and PC (Steam) in 2023.