The Wandering Village is a city-builder where you're building on the back of a big walking creature, it's wonderful and a big new update is out now with Research & Economy.
From Stray Fawn Studio it's still in Early Access and has been since September 2022 but is already worth playing! It has Native Linux support and is Steam Deck Verified too! Compared with other city-builders, it feels really different with you never knowing quite what's coming, and with the events system it keeps you on your toes. It also just looks really darn cool to see the creature moving about with all your people running around on its back.
The major changes / highlights from this update include:
- The research system has received a major overhaul. Unlocking new technologies now costs resources, and everything has been unified in a single tree. The tree's design has also been overhauled to show all important information at a glance.
- Onbu's back is now full of dense forests, large rocks and more. Your villagers will have to plan around these natural obstacles at first, and gradually free up more space to expand their village.
- Build Woodcutting Camps and Mining Camps to automatically let your workers harvest nearby resources. And when the resources are exhausted, simply move the camps to a new location!
- Nomads will want to join your village regularly as long as you manage to keep your villagers' happiness high enough.
- The game now features two completely rebalanced difficulty modes, "Relaxed" and "Survival". In contrast to the old "Novice" mode, "Relaxed" will never get too difficult.
- The tutorial has been completely reworked and adapted to all new and updated game mechanics.
- Two new building materials, clay and brick, have been added to add more depth to building construction.
- Five new Onbu food spots have been added! Each one comes with its unique up- and downsides.
- Scavenging has received an overhaul. You can see the expected resources beforehand to make an informed decision, but be wary - something unexpected may always happen!
There's a lot more to it than that in the release notes.
Really looking forward to seeing the finished product on this one.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
But the big critter you're on the back of is just adorable.
Last edited by Purple Library Guy on 11 November 2024 at 5:45 pm UTC
I'll have to give it another run through. I remember it being fun, but finding it annoying that sometimes I'd have a thing I wanted the villagers to do, I'd put some on that job, even pull them off other jobs, and nope, they didn't want to do that thing.
But the big critter you're on the back of is just adorable.
That's pretty much my experience of every colony/city builder I've ever played...
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