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Wildermyth
Developer Worldwalker Games LLC
Wildermyth is a tactical role-playing video game developed and published by Worldwalker Games. First released in 2019, the game was released in full in June 2021 for Linux, macOS, and Windows, and was released for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S in October 2024. The game received generally positive reviews upon release, with praise mostly directed at the game's use of… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
428 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Nov 4, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
89
LovedLoved
217 positive · 26 negative
95% range 85–93%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 217 | 26 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 68 | 1 | 71 |
| Lemmy * | 10 | 0 | 17 |
| Mastodon * | 9 | 1 | 8 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
12,501 of 13,178 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
89% recommend · 195 yes, 24 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 219 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (17,319 of 18,304 positive).
Players praise the game's unique blend of tactical combat and procedural storytelling. [1][2][3] Some find the writing clunky and the random events repetitive over time. [4][5][6] Many recommend it for fans of D&D and turn-based strategy. [7][8][9]
Liked
Representative posts
- [19]
I love this game. But wouldn't recommend it to my worst enemy. The game has a exponential difficulty level. It starts easy and then turn into dark souls out of the sudden. Playing it is an exercise in patience and the most annoying experience of my life. If you tell me you really like playing this game, I would believe you a madman. I would ask your family to put you in an asylum. Let me give some examples: - First …
- [1]
This has truly been one of my all time favorite games that I can genuinely just get lost into for hours, I really enjoy everything from the art style, to the storytelling, and the combat system. Again, cannot recommend this game enough
- [2]
Wildermyth is a must-play epic for any strategy or RPG fan. The papercraft visual style is charming, unique, and perfectly captures the vibe of a living storybook. Your heroes don't just level up; they age, fall in love, lose limbs, and eventually retire, or die in a blaze of glory. Every tale is unique and carefully crafted based on the meaningful choices you make during a campaign. The possibilities are endless. …
- [5]
The stories are worse than expected, but the tactical combat is better than expected. Overall, I like it a lot, even if it's not quite my favorite game of its type. Wildermyth aims to be a story generator, with randomized characters, relationships, and permadeath. I love this kind of game. XCOM and Battle Brothers are two of my top five games of all time. However, Wildermyth gets in the way of its own emergent …
- [8]
Baldur's Gate 3 / DND Lite but you also get to control more aspects of the story. You essentially play DM with your team, sharing a single"Tabletop" of sorts. I have absolutely nothing negative to say about Wildermyth, it's one of the best games, the best LAN co-op game I've ever played. We love every second of it. Runs well on Linux as well.
Summarised from 34 of the 364 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 11, 2026. How summaries are made
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Wildermyth sits at 89% positive across 243 opinionated reactions from 4 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Critics, per Wikipedia
The game received "generally favourable reviews" according to review aggregator Metacritic with a Metascore of 86, based on 26 Critic Reviews. Praise was mainly directed to the game's use of procedural generation for character development and storytelling. Wildermyth was nominated for Ultimate Game of the Year, PC Game of the Year, Best Indie Game and Best Storytelling at the 39th Annual Golden Joystick Awards. During the 25th Annual D.I.C.E. Awards, the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences nominated Wildermyth for "Role-Playing Game of the Year".
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 428 · most liked firstSteam Deck / Gaming News #8. My week’s news! Though, the roundup this time didn’t quite make it to 7 days after the last I shared, as I promised it would. Sorry! As ever, this is the bits and pieces of news I’ve spotted that made me smile, or made me interested, so I thought they’d fit in nicely here. My aim is to phrase this in a more *personal* manner than most gaming sites do now. My ever-lasting inspo is the old, old video game sites, blogs and magazines that I never had the privilege of…
neutral · AI labelView post →Steam Deck / Gaming News #8. My week’s news! Though, the roundup this time didn’t quite make it to 7 days after the last I shared, as I promised it would. Sorry! As ever, this is the bits and pieces of news I’ve spotted that made me smile, or made me interested, so I thought they’d fit in nicely here. My aim is to phrase this in a more *personal* manner than most gaming sites do now. My ever-lasting inspo is the old, old video game sites, blogs and magazines that I never had the privilege of…
neutral · AI labelView post →there's a random event in the game Wildermyth where you run into your doppelganger and most of the options are like i have to fight you but there's one that's like hey what a cool guy. i'll keep being me over here and you keep being you over there
positive · AI labelView post →Even though it’s been out on PC for a bit, it feels pretty amazing to hold a physical copy of a game I worked on. 🥰 #Wildermyth #gamewriting #indiegames #gamedev
positive · AI labelView post →[Humble Bundle] IGN Editors' Choice: The 9 and Above Club | $16. 7 Steam Keys - Disco Elysium - The Final Cut - Wildermyth - Chivalry 2 - Spiritfarer - The Forgotten City - GRIME - Paradise Killer
neutral · AI labelView post →[Steam Keys Giveaway] Please turn my poor financial decision into your holiday fun!. I bought another Fanatical mystery pack when I was there getting Wildermyth. >_> This was actually not a terrible pack for $4 and change, though it was all cheap indie titles. For anyone curious about the pulls, I kept The Crackpet Show (splashes of Happy Tree Friends and Enter the Gungeon) and Tallowmere (a low-budget, goofy but somehow intriguing roguelike side-scroller). The other ones don't seem like my…
neutral · AI labelView post →This has truly been one of my all time favorite games that I can genuinely just get lost into for hours, I really enjoy everything from the art style, to the storytelling, and the combat system. Again, cannot recommend this game enough
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Wildermyth's second DLC, Omenroad, is coming.
neutral · AI labelView post →Ah yes, thank you for saving me time by automatically hiding that well-known spam romance game *squints* Wildermyth
negative · AI labelView post →"I've always been afraid to write my own stories. Afraid they'd end up nowhere, and matter to no one." If I had to pick a singular moment in which I fell in love with the writing of this game, it would have to be the first time I saw that line. Wildermyth is one of my favorite RPGs and whole heartedly endorse it. The winding paths your heroes take, the struggles and the aging and the injuries. Selfishly, because I've played it so much, I wish they were still just adding *more* to it, but I…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You will like my indie game if you played these games: -Battle Brothers -Darkest Dungeon -Wildermyth -XCOM -Any sandbox RPG ^_~ Wishlist: store.steampowered.com/app/2586000 #GameDev #IndieDev
neutral · AI labelView post →Wildermyth is a must-play epic for any strategy or RPG fan. The papercraft visual style is charming, unique, and perfectly captures the vibe of a living storybook. Your heroes don't just level up; they age, fall in love, lose limbs, and eventually retire, or die in a blaze of glory. Every tale is unique and carefully crafted based on the meaningful choices you make during a campaign. The possibilities are endless. The way the game weaves "random" events into a coherent legacy for your…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Such a fun, unique way to do a roguelike. The first few playthroughs feel like magic, and you can't imagine ever getting tired of it. Eventually you start to see the same events and it starts to not feel as unique, but for the those first ~15 hours it was one of the coolest games I've played. I really wish this concept for a roguelike was expanded upon.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Library is OPEN! 📚 We're live now with @heycalamityyy.bsky.social checking out the demo to a new game called Book Bound, where you run a book store! More Wildermyth coming later! twitch.tv/taletellhearts
neutral · AI labelView post →A really great gem of a game. I played it soon after release and then sadly kind of forgot about it, although I really liked it. Picked it up again a short while ago and I am loving it. The artwork reminds me of old children books, but the stories are decidedly more mature. Othe people have already praised the great mix of tactical combat, artwork, music and story telling, and I have nothing more to add. It is a really, really great game. The best way to enjoy Wildermyth (in my opinion): pick…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →TONIGHT at 9:00 PM EST, it's a new KNIGHTS NIGHTS interstitial series - I'm gonna play some Wildermyth on 'Carved In Stone' difficulty. If I lose, I lose. I adore this game and am excited to stream it again. Tune in! twitch.tv/darlingdemon...
positive · AI labelView post →Anyone play Wildermyth?. Just bought it and have some questions about legacy characters If I keep leveling them up, will they eventually die of old age? Can I reuse legacy characters if the next chapter is hundreds of years in the future?
neutral · AI labelView post →If you're looking for some DND shenanigans, but don't have any friends, you will most likely love this game. Heck, you can even play it if you have friends, this thing has a multiplayer. All in all, the game is good and one of my favorites, HOWEVER, there is one thing I feel obligated to warn about. This game is meant to be replayable. It isn't because of on major issue. There are not enough possible things that can happen in this game. How this game works is that every single time you…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Took a small break from Wildermyth to FINALLY play a little Sonic Superstars! 2 levels in and it's clear that the team understood how to go about capturing that old-school sonic gameplay and charm! 🦔💨💨💨💨💨💨💨💨
positive · AI labelView post →This game is cute but not really inspiring: There are random small events and your choice determines what happens. But nothing substantial comes out of it, there is no real story consequences. It's just an OK game. I don't get the overwhelmingly positive reviews.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →New game, same me Cozy rpg goodness today with some Wildermyth Twitch.tv/raynehart
neutral · AI labelView post →🌅 NEW MORNING! 🌄 You ever get in those moods where you don't know what you want to play? 😶 Where you spend way too long staring at your options? What game do you usually come back to? 👀 For me it's probably Wildermyth! It's fun making friends for a random story! ⚔️ Your turn~! 💚 🎨 - @astaranell
positive · AI labelView post →Do you ever get nostalgic for a modern game? Wildermyth had an update to add new music to the game, and just the music in the trailer was making me nostalgic.. :) 10/10 game would recommend
positive · AI labelView post →If you see this repost and tell me a game that you love that not many people know about like at all For me, it'd be Wildermyth! I love any game with customization, and this game is just so good. Between the random events, there are so many fun stories. It's definitely my favorite indie game ever!
positive · AI labelView post →After years of playing this game, I can confidently say it's one of my favorite games of all time, best described as a diamond in the rough so to speak. If you love to read, and I mean LOVE it, someone who enjoys reading the lore and will pick up the books in skyrim to read for fun sort of person, I cant recommend this game more. I could write a small book raving on how much I love this game for it honestly. The base combat system is traditional yet also very unique which I love, easy to learn…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great for Group Gameplay The group you play with makes all the difference in this game. My boyfriend and I play together and make silly voices and accents for each individual character. It makes the experience a blast, and has lead to a ton of inside jokes. I don't know that I would have nearly as much fun playing it alone. The Writing... Exists. My partner and I both find it pretty laughable when people claim the writing is great in this game. The writing is clunky and over-flourished.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Lucas and I are playing Wildermyth, and he is being called out.
neutral · AI labelView post →Day 10: Underrated game! Wildermyth is one of my favorite indie games ever! Any game with character customization and I'm there, and seeing your characters grow older and interact is so satisfying. 10/10 game for me!
positive · AI labelView post →X-COM: SEXUALITY UNKNOWN I grew up on turn-based tactical games. Ultima IV and V. The Gold Box. UFO: Enemy Unknown (or X-COM for the Americans in the audience). Looking back, I can't honestly say I loved the combat in any of them. The original X-COM remains one of the most terrifying games I've ever played because the baseline jeopardy was nuclear. Every unexplored room might contain a Sectoid with a lucky reaction shot. The Gold Box games faithfully imported AD&D's habit of letting…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →For $50 I'd get (afaict current prices): - [Hades](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1145360/Hades/) ($7.49) - [Pathfinder: Kingmaker](https://store.steampowered.com/app/640820/Pathfinder_Kingmaker__Enhanced_Plus_Edition/) ($2.99) (make sure to force-enable the Windows build on the Steam Deck, the Linux build has issues with gamepad input on the kingdom management screen) - [One Deck Dungeon](https://store.steampowered.com/app/770100/One_Deck_Dungeon/) ($1.99) - [Slay the…
neutral · AI labelView post →The stories are worse than expected, but the tactical combat is better than expected. Overall, I like it a lot, even if it's not quite my favorite game of its type. Wildermyth aims to be a story generator, with randomized characters, relationships, and permadeath. I love this kind of game. XCOM and Battle Brothers are two of my top five games of all time. However, Wildermyth gets in the way of its own emergent narrative capabilities by writing a lot of story for you. And all that story is a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Some more games I love are: 💔 Dragons Dogma 1 & 2 🦇 Castlevania Aria of Sorrow 🐍 Metal Gear Solid 3 🐲 Yakuza 🌌 Warframe (MR13!) 😈 Jak and Daxter 🦖 Monster Hunter 🏕 Wildermyth 🌕 Bravely Default Wildermyth is my favorite indie game ever.. it's such a good game!! #promosky #gamingsky
positive · AI labelView post →Before starting the game, I thought that visuals would be the problem, but the character interactions would save the day. Turns out the visuals are nice, but the problem is the ENDLESS and POINTLESS random dialogues, which feel like spam. Those dialogues suck all the fun out of the rest of the game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Managed to convince my friend to start playing Wildermyth, which of course meant that I've started playing Wildermyth again. What an incredible game it is. Absolutely perfect at the exact thing it's attempting to be, which I think is what all games should aspire towards
positive · AI labelView post →My latest project is the console launch trailer for the excellent Wildermyth! I really enjoyed the chance to play with 3D assets and make these super fun popup book sequences 😊 I highly recommend the game for fans of TTRPGs, and it's fun both solo and with friends
positive · AI labelView post →Steam’s AI disclosure rules continue to be debated. Here's an example of a game that combines procedural storytelling and genuine human authorship. #Wildermyth builds a different story every run and credits the human who wrote each scene by name. Story by @jickle.net. #GameDev #AI #Steam
neutral · AI labelView post →Appleseed's Indie Game Of The Day! Day 2) Wildermyth by Worldwalker Games Wildermyth is a tactical RPG all about developing stories and campaigns and making a legacy. You choose classes and explore the campaign through random events, tactical combat and occasional transformations.
neutral · AI labelView post →The challenge is to choose 20 games that greatly influenced you. One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order. #GameChallenge #Games #GameDev #PromoSky Day 17: Wildermyth
positive · AI labelView post →There's a game called Wildermyth where every faction is inherently incompatible with humans, but none of them are inherently evil. For example, the Gorgons are an empire seeking to reclaim lost territory. This is fair, but they're aquatic, so they need to flood the world to take it back. Humans naturally need to fight them in order to survive, and there's no real way to compromise on that. It doesn't help that they ooze corruption everywhere they go.
positive · AI labelView post →Baldur's Gate 3 / DND Lite but you also get to control more aspects of the story. You essentially play DM with your team, sharing a single"Tabletop" of sorts. I have absolutely nothing negative to say about Wildermyth, it's one of the best games, the best LAN co-op game I've ever played. We love every second of it. Runs well on Linux as well.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i can very confidently say this is one of my favourite games i have ever played. it just scratches every itch for me. character creation, dnd style story progression, strategic battling, build experimentation, my list goes on and on! it is endlessly inspiring. i just love making my little guys and seeing them become heroes!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This was one of the most fun games - if not THE most fun - I've bought in the past Summer Sale. I wasn't expecting much of it but it completely blew my mind. A game where I can ACTUALLY choose my path, where my choices ACTUALLY matter and interfere with the gameplay, narrative and everything else! Every campaign can have so much depth and can be so emotional! Wildermyth is a gem, you should treat yourself better and buy it. I guarantee you'll pour some good hours into it. Only minor downsides…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I just played through the first 3 chapters (8 hours), thought the game was over... was totally satisfied and a little sad it was done. Then I learned there are a half dozen more campaigns all with 5 chapters each plus multiplayer. It's crazy, but I actually cared about the characters as they aged and the paths I chose for them through the years -- time actually matters in the campaigns as one resource among others and your adventurers can die or retire - their appearance changes as they age…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Genuinely one of my favourite games ever: - short enough to finish a game in a couple of sittings (max, i usually have around 2 sittings a game) - enough variation in the vanilla game that having now played 150+ hours, there's a small handful of interactions I've had more than once, but I still haven't come close to every option/variation of the interactions - it's easy to pick up and put down while you're playing, which is also to say that it doesn't require your peak attention or…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →[Game Bundle] IGN Editor's Choice: The 9 and Above Club. $16: * Disco Elysium - The Final Cut * Wildermyth * Chivalry 2 * Spiritfarer®: Farewell Edition * GRIME * The Forgotten City * Paradise Killer * [COUPON] Get $10 Off (Almost) Anything in the IGN Store * [COUPON] Get Three Months of IGN Plus
neutral · AI labelView post →Change of plans for today, Archipelago stuff will be happening tomorrow now But tonight @zagqueenofchaos.bsky.social and I are going to do some Wildermyth! I love this game, so please join us for that! 💚
positive · AI labelView post →I love this game. But wouldn't recommend it to my worst enemy. The game has a exponential difficulty level. It starts easy and then turn into dark souls out of the sudden. Playing it is an exercise in patience and the most annoying experience of my life. If you tell me you really like playing this game, I would believe you a madman. I would ask your family to put you in an asylum. Let me give some examples: - First encounter was 7 random monsters. I had no tool so I died. - Poor game…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Please add all of the frogs you can. It helps with my friend's roleplay. This game is perfect for people who enjoy DnD but have a difficult time with the RP part or in general don't have a group to play with. The storylines are great and honestly I would love to see more added even if it's in a paid DLC. Love playing it with a group of friends.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I just realized Wildermyth is a SaGa game for Americans
positive · AI labelView post →Wildermyth is such a cool game, you guys! Oh… you‘ve all known that since 2021? Okay then…
positive · AI labelView post →I played the intro campaign of Wildermyth, and not only is it great as the "fantasy XCOM" I was hoping for, but if you're the type of person to headcanon little stories and relationships between your party in a tactics game, this game is for you.
positive · AI labelView post →The replayability of this game is insane! It's like the Sims but for monster slaying.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Our Big Walk game night fell though so three of us checked out Sunderfolk (streamed over Discord, played on phones). It reminded me of Wildermyth by way of Four Swords Adventures and Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles, presented by your game master @sweeetanj.bsky.social. It was a good time!
neutral · AI labelView post →I would normally love a game like this, but the writing in this game is just so strange. I'm not sure if it was written by AI or just parsed into oblivion, but it made the storytelling aspect (the part I was most excited for) feel bland and boring.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Thinking about Wildermyth this evening.. SUCH a cool game, I’m not even that big of a fan of the management parts of the game but the emergent storytelling in that game is next level!! You can start the game with a set of characters, only for them to age over the literal decades, -
positive · AI labelView post →It's ok. Not great or amazing, Not terrible either. The game progresses slow, We spent most of our time reading the story menus with less than 1/4 of our time in actual combat. I wish i could give it a mediocre rating but Steam only allows thumbs up/down. I purchased 4 copies so I could play with my boys. I'm glad I got it on sale. I'd be disappointed if i paid full price. It's turn based, so every one shares the exact same screen at all times. That might be fine with 2 players max, but…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Interesting idea. And I hope to see more riffing on it. But, oh my gosh, the game feels like 60% clicking though *incredibly* boring dialogue. I didn't get very far, but the early game play was also boring. (though the mystic interacting with the environment was a neat mechanic). -- But basically it was very simple combat combined with spiritless text that you have to speed through. And then the campaign map is ... also incredibly slow as you watch time slowly tick while tasks get done.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I laughed my ass off when I saw Wildermyth. I don't even remember anything about it. I played it for 10 hours, and I'm guessing I had a great time. Because I have evidence with screenshots and I even wrote a review.
positive · AI labelView post →Wildermyth was just released for consoles! Getting to design/test/write (a smidge) for this game was an amazing experience, and I'm so happy other folks can enjoy it now! If you like narrative-dense RPGs, tactical gameplay, and proc-gen fun, it's worth picking up.! www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...
neutral · AI labelView post →Wildermyth is literally just "make your ocs play dnd and watch" the game....
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