We faced off in a barn, in a town turned silent by the Gorgon’s stone gaze, and fell the beast alongside its many minions. In my first campaign, my band of merry adventurers had tracked down the source of a Gorgon infestation, led by a genuine, in the blue-flesh Gorgon. It might be easiest for me to explain the appeal of Wildermyth through an anecdote. The story feeds into the battles, and those battles feed back into the story, in ways that hooked me in and kept me playing until I declared aloud (on Twitter) “oh shit it’s 3 a.m.”

Time has to be managed, and battles take place on a field familiar to anyone who’s spent some time with XCOM, only with fantasy weapons and monsters. They fail, fall in battle, and the years take their toll. You start out with an idealistic band of adventurers, hoping to make their mark on the world, and maybe save it in the process.Īnd then party members journey, bond, and build. Just as other games have used them to create their own narratives, Wildermyth uses procedural systems to tell its story, generating different paths from the hooks your characters have, either by choice or through randomization. It takes some clear inspiration from tabletop role-playing games, except-at least in single-player mode-you play the whole party.

It’s got enough familiarity to its tactical combat and strategy meta-layer that it might be easier to fall back on the “X by way of Y” method of game description. It has a number of systems, all interlocking and affecting one another on various degrees. Wildermyth can be a tough game to describe. Losing sleep to weave the legacy of generations

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