These little decisions and the stories that surround them are communicated through evocative comic book-style panels that zip into place with each click of the mouse.īy the introduction’s end, you’ll have a basic grasp of each character’s personality. Yet even at this stage, you’ll make choices that begin to shape these lumps of heroic clay, such as what kind of weapon they like to fight with, whether a pair of characters are friends, lovers or rivals.

Initially your characters are fairly faceless, almost literally so, as a consequence of the game’s simple, childlike art-style. However you want to compare it, it’s probably my favourite game of the year.Ī Wildermyth campaign starts in classic fantasy fashion, with a ragtag group young men and women getting their feet wet in the art of heroism by defending their home from attack by monsters. It’s fantasy X-Com, Crusader Kings but for questing.

Blending an astonishingly flexible interactive narrative with rich turn-based battles, Wildermyth sees you take a party of youngblood adventurers fighting with pitchforks and pickaxes, then slowly transform them into grizzled heroes and even epoch-spanning legends. Wildermyth is essentially an epic series of fantasy novels that you write as you play. Publisher: Worldwalker Games, WhisperGames

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