Wildermyth

Wildermyth is a character-driven, procedurally generated tactical RPG set in the fantasy world of the Yondering Lands. You lead a band of heroes from humble beginnings into legendary fighters, making choices that shape their stories and have lasting consequences. They face unexpected threats and strange monsters, uncover mysteries and share quieter moments in a world that combines hard truths and sacrifice with humor and personal storytelling.

Heroes and their stories

Each playthrough generates heroes with their own histories, personalities and appearances. They age, change, form relationships, fall in love, disagree and make sacrifices; your choices and combat skills shape their paths. Encounters and events can permanently affect a character’s appearance, abilities and story. A hero might trust the enigmatic wolf god and undergo a striking change, or pursue a romance with another hero, gaining a shared buff and more story opportunities.

Heroes can grow old and retire, fall in combat or survive to the end. When a favorite is defeated, you can let them fall back with a maiming that opens new paths in their legend, or have them die in a blaze of glory and be remembered for generations. You can customize heroes’ names, appearances and histories, preserve favorites in a roster of legends, and bring them into later adventures. Across multiple lifetimes, the myths you create form your own pantheon, which you can share with others.

The Yondering Lands

The game’s richly layered setting features hand-painted 2D characters and scenery. It has no orcs, elves or goblins; its dangers include telepathic insect-dragons and clockwork undead.

Tactical combat

Battles take place on interactive maps and reward teamwork, careful positioning and creative use of heroes’ evolving abilities and the environment. Walling and Flanking offer clear but conflicting incentives, while mystical interfusion lets you reshape the battlefield with explosive magic. You can choose from multiple difficulty levels and a large range of combat abilities as heroes level up, shaping them around offensive or defensive tactics, brute strength, stealth or magic—for example, flinging fire from a nearby lamp at enemies.

Campaigns and replayability

Procedural generation supplies new heroes, enemies, story events and maps in each playthrough. In multiplayer campaigns, each player can customize and control their own heroes. The game is recommended for up to five players; a typical campaign starts with three heroes and adds a fourth and fifth along the way.