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Title: One of my favorite Steam early access games is now available on Switch
and PS5

Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2025 17:45:39 +0000
Link: https://www.engadget.com/gaming/one-of-my-fav...

After five years of development, one of Steam's coziest games is leaving
Steam early access and making the jump to consoles. Starting today, you can
purchase The Wandering Village on PC, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 5. On
Steam, the game's developer, Stray Fawn Studio, is offering a 35 percent
discount until July 31. In the US, that means you can get the game for just
under $20. Switch owners, meanwhile, can get a 10 percent launch discount
until August 7.

I've been playing The Wandering Village on and off since it entered early
access in 2022. It's a lovely game that combines two very different
influences. Most obviously, the game wears on its sleeve Stray Fawn's love of
Hayao Miyazaki's seminal Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. The manga and
later film is set in a desolate, post-apocalyptic world ravaged by nuclear
war.

The Wandering Village's other major influence are the titles of Impressions
Games. In the late '90s and early 2000s, the now-defunct studio went on a hot
streak releasing three games ΓÇö Caesar III, Pharaoh and Zeus: Master of
Olympus ΓÇö that, to this day, define much of the city-building genre.

The Wandering Village marries those influences in a novel way. Rather than
building your city on solid ground, you build it on the back of a giant
creature called the Onbu. As you can probably guess, the Onbu doesn't stay
still. And while there are ways you can influence its behavior, sometimes it
can have a mind of its own. All of that leads to some interesting gameplay
interactions. For example, the Onbu might wander into a biome that is toxic
to your villagers. As of the writing of this article, the game has a "very
positive" rating on Steam on nearly 6,000 reviews, with recent reviews
tilting toward "overwhelming positive."

If you want to grab a physical copy of the game for Switch or PS5, Stray Fawn
has partnered with Serenity Forge to offer collectors and premium editions of
the game. Pre-orders will ship early next year. Despite the game leaving
early access, Stray Fawn has promised to keep working The Wandering Village.

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