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Wanderburg
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Drive your Castle on Wheels into battle in this minimalist medieval roguelike of roaming fortresses! Devour entire villages, build your modular arsenal of siege machinery and break the game as you grow with every stronghold you crush. From the Steam store page
467 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
61
Fresh
236 positive · 154 negative
95% range 56–65%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 236 | 154 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 16 | 0 | 50 |
| Mastodon * | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| Lemmy * | 1 | 0 | 2 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
1,086 of 1,374 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
63% recommend · 173 yes, 101 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 274 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mostly Positive (2,575 of 3,319 positive).
Players praise the game's charming aesthetic and fun core concept of a moving castle that eats things. [1][2][3] Many reviewers note that the game suffers from balance issues and a lack of meta-progression. [4][5][6] Some players feel the content is limited and the difficulty spikes unfairly in later stages. [7][8][9]
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- [8]
Tepid maybe. Great aesthetic. Interesting enemies. Fun gameplay. Almost four hours in I can tell it will be a grindfest. Overtime mode is just unfair BS thrown at you to stop you from farming the progression currency. Huge HP pools, enemies are just as fast as your nitro (sprint) and they do crazy damage. Lazy, unfun and not engaging game design which is unfortunate because you get into overtime mode right when your …
- [5]
I was incredibly excited for this game and I'm very disappointed. I very much enjoy 'bullet heaven' style games, especially "Vampire Survivors" and I felt like this game had a very fun premise (as a fan of "Mortal Engines") but it falls flat in a number of areas. The biggest issue for me is progression, or lack thereof. There are no permanent upgrades (things you buy with upgrade currency change certain aspects of …
- [2]
What is it? Wanderburg is a medieval roguelike that has you drive around in a castle on wheels (or legs) and solve most problems by eating them. Sheep, villages, other castles, no matter, you're not a picky eater. As you consume everything smaller than yourself, your fortress grows bigger through upgrades and modules you add to it, letting you bolt on cannons, magic, armies of minions and other increasingly …
- [3]
https://youtu.be/AV83-1bophk The video is a playthrough of the first map. The game is worth it for the music alone. This is a bullet heaven game where you get to drive a castle on wheels. There is a lot of charm here with the graphics and the whimsical music. It is a minimalist look and it works for the aesthetics of the game Unlike most bullet heaven games you have control over your abilities (you can get up to 4) …
- [1]
always wondered how mortal engine would play as a game while this is not steampunk theme it's close enough to Municipal Darwinism, "Prepare to Ingest!"
Summarised from 34 of the 346 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 12, 2026. How summaries are made
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Players who liked Wanderburg talk about great aesthetic and charming graphics; those who didn't talk about balance issues with weapons and upgrades. Which matters more to you?
Reactions
60 of 467 · most liked firstTepid maybe. Great aesthetic. Interesting enemies. Fun gameplay. Almost four hours in I can tell it will be a grindfest. Overtime mode is just unfair BS thrown at you to stop you from farming the progression currency. Huge HP pools, enemies are just as fast as your nitro (sprint) and they do crazy damage. Lazy, unfun and not engaging game design which is unfortunate because you get into overtime mode right when your build starts to get great and the game slaps you back to the menu for…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →**❌ Not Recommended** I played the demo before the full release and really enjoyed it, so I was looking forward to the full game. And honestly, it’s still fun. The game itself isn’t bad at all. But the upgrade system is a big problem. Some upgrades are just completely useless, and there are even upgrades that feel like they actively make your run worse. The really frustrating part is that once you unlock an upgrade, it stays in your upgrade pool forever. There’s no way to remove or disable…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ok where to start with this one... The good: 1. Amazing art style. Feels suitable for the game it is trying to be if that makes sense. 2. Lots of units that are just ready to sprawl legs/wheels and start running off from you or towards you. 3. If Mortal Engines (2018) movie's concept is your thing, this will be a pleasing experience, for some time. The bad: 1. Generic same old "it's roguelike/lite, so the abilities are as X,Y,Z" deal. Let me explain. You know how almost all the roguelike games…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So I got sent a copy of Wanderburg, and played quite a bit of it yesterday and today. I think I'm gonna hold off on recommending it for a little because it's good, there's a solid core, but it feels lacking in places. It's currently in Early Access so that's fine, I'll revisit it sometime later.
neutral · AI labelView post →The game doesn't scale. The unlocks are required in order to play the game to its fullest. Usually in the first hour of a game i expect to either be hooked or let go. This game let me go. There's rerolls, but they're useless because you're only allotted 4 weapons to start. Also there doesn't seem to be any real "Combos". The weapons don't interact with each other in any noticeable way. The upgrades seem very linear. And the game seems repetitive. Its a good idea, but there needs to be more…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Its a really well made and innovative survivor type game. So why can't I recommend it? Because while I very much enjoy the game, if you played the demo you pretty much saw everything the game has to offer. When charging money I expected more content. A more advanced and polished progression system. More customization. A more thorough balance between the different modules or at least the option to focus my build. As it currently stands, unlocking everything is more of a handicap making future…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →always wondered how mortal engine would play as a game while this is not steampunk theme it's close enough to Municipal Darwinism, "Prepare to Ingest!"
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I was incredibly excited for this game and I'm very disappointed. I very much enjoy 'bullet heaven' style games, especially "Vampire Survivors" and I felt like this game had a very fun premise (as a fan of "Mortal Engines") but it falls flat in a number of areas. The biggest issue for me is progression, or lack thereof. There are no permanent upgrades (things you buy with upgrade currency change certain aspects of gameplay, but there are no "10% more damage" or "Increased Critical Rate"…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Don't get me wrong, it's fun. However, I'm missing the roguelite aspect here. I expected incremential upgrades outside of the game, but it seems like you can just equip a different upgrade which buffs a specific thing. Which kills replayability for me here. But it's still ok. Refunding it as it's not what I expected.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is fun at first but the later level are so unbalanced and some weapon are completely useless that the fun slips away real fast
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Music is absolutely bonkers, it's so fun! Game is suffering typical early access bugs like formatting issues with various translations but is generally pretty entertaining. Runs very good on Steam Deck! Let's see how this ages
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The world's first tower offense game!? We are excited to announce our second game: WANDERBURG Check out our reveal Trailer! 🏰 www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUsp...
neutral · AI labelView post →The demo was enjoyable, but this version feels unpolished. The gameplay is still solid, but it only takes one or two runs to realize the developers didn't fully think things through. There is no meta-progression; you can only unlock new items—which happens very slowly—and then try to cobble together a build from them. There’s no character growth, no stat boosts, nothing. Plus, only one or two weapons are actually viable. On top of that, the UX is incomplete—some buttons look unfinished, and so…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →What is it? Wanderburg is a medieval roguelike that has you drive around in a castle on wheels (or legs) and solve most problems by eating them. Sheep, villages, other castles, no matter, you're not a picky eater. As you consume everything smaller than yourself, your fortress grows bigger through upgrades and modules you add to it, letting you bolt on cannons, magic, armies of minions and other increasingly irresponsible weaponry. The Good The Gameplay – The general gameplay feels great. You…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A promising game, however the difficulty spike at four skulls and lack of meta progression make the second half of this game tedious at best, unplayable at worst.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Was super excited for this game for a year, but this isn't it. I liked the first mission and thought it was great, and then the difficulty jumped x10 in the second mission where I am fighting for my life the entire time. Skill issue, whatever, I just can't recommend a game that I can easily beat the first level and then lose three times in a row on the second. Upgrades are fairly boring, too few options at the start, so the game is just ram/cannon/mortar/mines with no variation. Could have…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Its too... small. Demo+a lil extra, basically no meta progression, after 5 runs it is EXTREMELY repetitive, upgrades no visual impact. who hopes for @build your moving caste@ will be disappointed.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Wanderburg has reached 100k wishlists on Steam! 🥳 Thank you so much for your support! We are super thankful and hihgly motivated to put all out energy into this game!
neutral · AI labelView post →No meta progression. The first time you play it will be almost identical to the last.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have put a lot of time in this game. It is horribly unbalanced. It quickly becomes a "meta build only" game where people purposefully avoid unlocking content to help their RNG drops. Fun concept. - No difficulty modifier - Scaling difficulty is horrible. Things just do more damage in harder difficulty so a single hit takes half your life. This wouldn't be bad, except it pigeon holes everyone into a single build. -No clear descriptions for any of the modifiers -upgrades such as "crews 10%…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a good game, but the difficulty goes from "you can play this blindfolded, pick upgrades at random and drive aimlessly" to "you HAVE TO DO A META BUILD AND RESET THE RUN AT THE 4 MIN MARK IF YOU HAVEN'T GOTTEN THE UPGRADES YOU NEED" from one level to the next.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Oh jeez, tomorrow's Sprawl Zero, Wanderburg and Thousand Hells, the new game from the King of Dragon Pass dev. Oh, and Halloween: The Game. That's looking rather good too. Always many games. So many games.
neutral · AI labelView post →---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☑ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →tl;dr: I loved playing the demo when it first came out 6 - 12 months ago but game breaking bugs have apparently appeared meanwhile and they make the game unplayable in its current state. I will come back to the game again in 6 - 12 months to check whether it got fixed. The most annoying bug is that some enemy units reach 0 hp but do not die. They just stay idle on the battlefield. It happens to maybe 1/10 of the enemies killed, which makes it a big inconvenience, especially when it happens on…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a good game, feels polished and plays really well, but it lacks in some very basic stuff. I've played for 5 hours and i got almost all of the upgrades, there's just some random artifacts that are ridiculously expensive to get left.. There's no progression, you can unlock new things but you'll never be stronger then you were last run, or the last 100 runs, there's different combinations and that's it, the game gets boring real quick if you're not into the "Leaderboard grind".. The…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The recent Steam Next Fest was great. So many wonderful demos for games I hadn't heard of. In the latest Game File, I highlighted 6 that still have PC demos up: - Froggy Hates Snow - Enter the Chronosphere - Wanderburg - Deg - Sokogram - Clover's Quadrants www.gamefile.news/p/one-key-ch...
neutral · AI labelView post →Someone made a cute Mortal Cities Game called Wanderburg and it's delightful? Applied to the playtest and despite some menu garbo, the gameplay is very silly fun with houses running away from you and your wandering burg can get big enough to eat the houses etc store.steampowered.com/app/3624140/...
positive · AI labelView post →no complaints thus far. I played blood of the dawnwalker and it left me feeling exhausted 20 mins of this and i feel refreshed
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →https://youtu.be/AV83-1bophk The video is a playthrough of the first map. The game is worth it for the music alone. This is a bullet heaven game where you get to drive a castle on wheels. There is a lot of charm here with the graphics and the whimsical music. It is a minimalist look and it works for the aesthetics of the game Unlike most bullet heaven games you have control over your abilities (you can get up to 4) as you press the button to activate them between cooldowns. There is also a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I could poetically pontificate about this game, but I don't need to. Watch the trailer - that's the game. It's one of the most honest trailers out there - no flashy cutscenes, no big swings, nothing that says anything but what this game is. It's "Mortal Engines - the game" when it doesn't take itself seriously. You know that by the trailer. Does it get repetitive? Yeah. Does it throw some neat mechanics? Yeah. Does the difficulty curve sometimes just get unfair? Yeah. Does…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is entertaining, but keybindings cannot be changed, and it is very difficult to play using a keyboard. There appears to be only one build that truly works. Vehicle movement is sometimes erratic and hard to read. You can get stuck without understanding what is blocking your path. Some enemies are faster than the player—even when using nitro—and will kill you every time.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Was excited for this game, but cannot recommend it or support devs like this: Pros: -Looks like a cool concept Cons (Many are due to devs literally being lazy and looking for a cash grab without care for the game): - Non descriptive upgrades - Quest targets not even spawning or counting to be able to do the quest - Major spelling and word errors - Literally all upgrades feel exactly the same, it doesn't matter what you click. Inside of the run nothing feels cool or unique, you just level and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Wanderburg is another sorta like Vampire Survivors type game, but you're playing a mobile tank-castle that can keep growing in size, there's also a demo to check out. I would give it a look.
positive · AI labelView post →The general overview for the game atm: - The Castle levels up from gold gained on the run. Each Level up allows you to pick upgrades.These upgrades come in different rarities, and a higher rarity means a bigger boost. Instead of upgrades, you can select a new attachment if the slot is still free. - Every 5 upgrades for a specific attachment, you get a to pick a special upgrade for the depending attachment. - The attachments have passive attacks and active attacks. as the names give away, you…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Castle-on-wheels medieval roguelike battler Wanderburg arrives this Summer #Wanderburg #Demo #IndieGames #PCGaming
neutral · AI labelView post →Drive your castle on wheels into battle in this medieval roguelike of roaming fortresses! Devour entire villages, build your modular arsenal of siege machinery & break the game as you grow with every stronghold you crush. Our Wanderburg early access review: somanygames.co.uk/review/wande...
neutral · AI labelView post →If you think this looks cool and want to play a video game that is roughly like this, Wanderburg just came out a couple weeks ago and looks like a neat roguelike. store.steampowered.com/app/3624140/...
neutral · AI labelView post →[Disclosure: Game provided by publisher] Hey folks, live now! Gonna be playing some WANDERBURG! Come by and say hi, and once again sorry for the delay with the stream. www.twitch.tv/caseyexplosion
neutral · AI labelView post →Castle-on-wheels medieval roguelike battler Wanderburg arrives this Summer https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/castle-on-wheels-medieval-roguelike-battler-wanderburg-arrives-this-summer/ #Wanderburg #Demo #IndieGames #PCGaming
neutral · AI labelView post →Battling castles on wheels? Wanderburg might be my new favourite thing https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/battling-castles-on-wheels-wanderburg-might-be-my-new-favourite-thing/ #Wanderburg #Demo #IndieGames #PCGaming
neutral · AI labelView post →I don't think I've ever CACKLED ALOUD more than when I was playing the Wanderburg demo. I am not good at this game, the game is very good though. HOWLING. #NextFest store.steampowered.com/app/4268810/...
positive · AI labelView post →Gets old quickly, cant reccomend it for full price.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You pretty much know what your getting by watching the trailer. Very well done game
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A very shallow experience that runs dry very quickly unfortunately, if I could have I would have refunded. You can see the common complaints repeating in most of the negative reviews, this game very quickly becomes repetitive and any progression is extremely unrewarding which saps any motivation to continue. At its core this game is just driving around an arena hoping to get ahead of the curve before the first boss, if you can do that you will in all probability beat the level and after that…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Get on sale. For the price of a movie ticket it's kind of worth it. Sadly, there is not allot of meat on these bones. The upgrades feel meaningless and the maps are pretty much all the same. I got about 2,5 hours of enjoyment out of it in total. It's still only in early access so maybe they'll improve it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Mixed feelings overall. It’s fine if you can grab it on sale for around €7, but at the end of the day it still feels more like an extended demo than a full game. The scope is pretty limited - just three maps and three castles. The map looks large at first glance, but in practice it’s really just a way of choosing your difficulty. Weapons and upgrades are almost the same as in the demo. There are a few new additions, but nothing that really changes how the game plays or adds any meaningful…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great game and loads of fun if it wouldn't crash when: - clicking "new run" - pressing anything during the developer-intro - alt-tabbing - changing settings - either option normal/Dx12 worked - coughing too loud - having a download running - unplugging/plugging in controller - having a discord message pop up :(
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Battling castles on wheels? Wanderburg might be my new favourite thing. Wanderburg is nuts. A roguelike where you build up a castle on wheels (or legs) and battle through various locations and it instantly hooked me.
neutral · AI labelView post →The UI is very blurry but its not a big deal, its something small that doesn't take away from the experience too much. However there is a critical bug, when you PAUSE the game there is clearly some kind of memory leak going on. You unpause and can't continue the run anymore because the game now runs with 4-6 fps. Are you serious? This is a 100% reproducable and every single playtester who has had to go to the bathroom ONCE would have encountered this bug. You had a demo, how did this bug slip…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →PC Gaming Show 2025 - most relevant announcements. - **Eyes of Hellfire**: A co-op gothic horror game by Blumhouse - **Mandrake**: A narrative farming sim by Failbetter Games - **Ambrosia Sky**: A first-person sci-fi "clean-'em-up" narrative adventure set in a crumbling space colony - **FBC: Firebreak**: An upcoming co-operative shooter by Remedy Entertainment[2]. - **Den of Wolves**: A spiritual successor to PayDay by 10 Chambers - **007: First Light**: IO Interactive’s James Bond game -…
neutral · AI labelView post →Played the game for 30 minutes: Crashed when the 4th Boss spawned Restarted the game, Made my GPU Driver Crash after selecting a map Restarted again, made my whole PC crash after pressing "Play" in main menu... The demo worked fine back in the day
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Last week on stream we tried 10 indie game demos! 👀 Akatori PunchLunch: Foodtruck Fighter Lost Wiki: Kozlovka Frog Sqwad NonoLith Wanderburg FIRESTARTERS My little friend Chibi Crow Country Sludgineers Denshattack! Here's our thoughts on each demo~ (1/11) #indiegames #gamedemos #indiegamedemos
neutral · AI labelView post →In other other news, Wanderburg is exactly my game
positive · AI labelView post →Another game where a mixed rating would work really well for steam reviews. Great theme and solid enjoyable game loop (don't listen to all the gameplay critique reviews, idk what their smoking about the overtime and progression) but shows all the hallmarks of "Early access roguelike that might not get properly "finished". It lacks all the expected QoL features roguelikes should have are entirely absent in a frankly concerningly sparse and unattractive UI. No way to remove upgrades from the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Castles on wheels (and legs) built for destruction - Wanderburg is explosive fun https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/castles-on-wheels-and-legs-built-for-destruction-wanderburg-is-explosive-fun/ #Wanderburg #PCGaming #IndieGame #SteamMachine #SteamOS
neutral · AI labelView post →A new post, the end of the week, and more chaos ensues with Sunday Funday :D Starting it off with Wanderburg, a lil mortal engine kind of game, then Rachet and Clank, ending it with Tiamat knows what x3 All at www.twitch.tv/daziras and youtube.com/live/vvrCLlU... #Femboy #Furry #Vtuber #Gaming #Fyp
neutral · AI labelView post →These fortresses are on wheels. I guess you can say, these castles are moving. These moving castles are so loud, almost like they are howling. They should've named the game "Howling moving castles."
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Games are very repetitive and get boring fast. slow to upgrade so just gets boring. No real changes seen in games that affect or make gameplay better when upgrades happen in map screen. Then in game it’s just repetitive and boring after a while.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →!!! MIXED !!! It's fun but the module balance is off. Everything apart from arrows and cannons feels weak, especially late game. Endgame content is entirely missing, which is a shame. Once build varierty is fixed this game is an absolute keeper!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →there is painfully little meta progression, every round feels the same, not much progress from demo
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