Wildheart Gourmet

Wildheart Gourmet is an interactive-fiction cook-em-up about foraging wild foods and finding your place in the natural world. You explore the Echo, where people have long lived from the land’s bounty, as an inhospitable desert begins to spread. Your quest is to uncover truths rumored to explain the crisis.

Explore the Echo

You visit locations across the Echo to collect clues about its nature. Each one reveals part of a mystery spanning eons, with consequences for the world. Along the way, you meet the Echo’s people and learn about their lives, beliefs and foodways.

Forage and help others

You gather edible plants and useful herbs to live off the land. The game draws on real knowledge of wild edible plants and herbs, and you develop your understanding of medicinal herbs by finding the right remedy for people’s complaints.

The game aims to introduce foraging wild foods, highlight underappreciated invasive species as edibles and encourage harmony with the natural world. Its ecological focus is limited to temperate North America, reflecting the highly local nature of foraging.

Music and artwork

The game features a bespoke score by musician and audio specialist Shelly Ferina, as well as guest artwork by interdisciplinary designer Anna Zimmer.