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Wayward

You awaken stranded in a wilderness of procedurally generated islands, with resources to find and threats to manage. Surviving means paying attention to needs such as hunger, thirst, injuries, and changing temperatures. Explore different biomes, gather materials, craft tools and supplies, build a base, and face or tame creatures. Turn-based movement gives you time to plan each action, while the world’s objects and crafting systems invite experimentation. There are no character classes or levels: skills and stats improve through interactions and repeated activities. Choose modes with optional permadeath or respawning, and play alone or online with optional PvP.

Shipwrecked on a changing island, gather, craft, and survive turn by turn while building skills through what you do.

Released 22 Apr 2016

86%positive of
1.4k player reviews

$7.99

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Craft Tools and Shelter

Build a Wilderness Base

Improve Skills by Doing

You awake to discover yourself no longer in the company of good men or a fine seafaring vessel. Treasure... you remember something about treasure. Wayward is a challenging turn-based, top-down, wilderness survival roguelike. Explore, build, and most importantly survive in these unforgiving lands.

Developed by Unlok · Published by Unlok

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Players Praise Most

Deep Crafting Systems
Open-Ended Exploration
Atmospheric Soundtrack
Co-op Multiplayer

Common Player Critiques

Steep Learning Curve
Cluttered Interface
Slow Content Updates
Weak Navigation Tools

86%

positive of 1.4k player reviews

From the Devs

Wayward is a challenging turn-based, top-down, wilderness survival roguelike.

In Wayward, there is a large focus on simulation, exploration, and discovery. There are no classes; there are no levels. Progression of your character depends on individual skill and stat gains by your interactions with items or objects in the world. You are free to play and explore the game in any fashion you wish.

Wayward is a traditional roguelike, meaning it has random environment generation, (optional) permadeath, turn-based gameplay, grid-based movement, complexity, non-modal interactions, resource/inventory management, and more. As such, Wayward is similar to games like UnReal World, Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, or Dwarf Fortress.

Some of Wayward's key features include:

Sandbox survival game mechanics mixed with roguelike gameplay.
Over 750 items to craft, discover and interact with.
Deep, multi-faceted skill system with over 30 skills.
More than 60 creatures and animals to combat, harvest, or tame.

Iterative game design and community feedback driven with transparent development.

Online multiplayer with optional PVP mode.
35+ hours of content and gameplay before reaching the "end-game" with supplemental content requiring hundreds of hours.
Infinite procedural generation with five island types featuring unique content for each biome.

Optional permadeath (hardcore), or respawning (casual) modes.
More than 40 milestones to unlock that provide unique gameplay modifiers.
Ability to rollback to previous versions or play the latest development build of the game before public release via Steam.
Choose from the following game modes: hardcore, casual, challenge, or custom.
Day and night system with temperature effects.

Character customization.
Dynamic reputation and difficulty system.
Play in turn-based (default), simulated turn-based (multiplayer only), or real-time modes.
Modding and Steam Workshop support with extensive development tools.
18 custom music tracks.

Back of the Box

Platforms	Windows, macOS, Linux
Age ratings	ClassInd (Brazil) L — Violência fantasiosa IGRS (Indonesia) 13 — Kekerasan Interaksi Daring Steam (Germany) 12 — Fantasy-Gewalt
Controller required	No
DLC / extras	2 listed on Steam
Content notices	Online interactivity
Website	Official website