The Wandering Village

"The Wandering Village marries survival and city-building atop a living creature with charm and originality, but genre quirks, flat storytelling, and a few design snags keep it from soaring. It’s a thoughtful, well-crafted game—just one that asks you to overlook …"

"The Wandering Village delivers an impressive, captivating experience on Xbox Series S, evolving beautifully from Early Access into a full release. Its unique premise of building a nomadic village on the back of a colossal creature, enhanced by a new …"

"The Wandering Village is a great management game that has an important message it doesn’t try to jam down your throat. The mechanics will tell your story, whether it is parasitic or mutualistic. Stray Fawn Studio has done a wonderful …"

"The Wandering Village is a solid city-builder with a comfortable learning curve. It offers a challenge while drip-feeding you new ideas along the way."

"The Wandering Village launches into early access as a complete city-building simulator experience, but with plenty of room to grow. Minor bugs and quality-of-life improvements can go a long way to complete the player experience for this otherwise beautiful world …"

"With beautiful Studio Ghibli-esque aesthetics, The Wandering Village is a city building sim with real soul. Beneath it all, there is a really beautiful metaphor at play with a wider message regarding the relationship between a civilisation and its environment."

"While not the deepest city-building sim out there, its approachability, workable controls, and some unique elements help it to shine"

"The Wandering Village is a worthy addition to the city-builder genre. It&s;s a mostly undemanding hybrid that mixes sim management with a touch of pet care. A slight experience, with an uninspired and slow-moving story, but it still manages to …"

"The Wandering Village is a lovely game with an interesting mechanic of travelling on the back of a giant creature. While its visual style severely restricts the freedom of building, it adds to the mood very well and sets the …"

""The Wandering Village" pleasantly surprised me. I don&s;t particularly like most city-building strategy games because there&s;s usually only one correct way to complete them, and it&s;s easy to fall behind if you research certain buildings too late or don&s;t build …"

"This is a lovely game that rewards patience and empathy, and is best enjoyed with a relaxed mindset and a soft spot for massive creatures with big sleepy eyes."

"The Wandering Village is the kind of game that you can end up spending a lot of time in, and may just leave you feeling reflective and pensive."

"The Wandering Village is a truly great game, and I&s;m quite curious to see where it goes from here. Thanks to Onbu, the developers have definitely managed to create a project that, in its own way, stands out from other …"

"The Wandering Village offers us Onbu, which is great. It&s;s great to shape our relationship with him and care for him; however, as a city builder, the game rhythm is pretty flat and lacks memorable moments. It all runs pretty …"

"The Wandering Village is a good choice for hardcore fans of building strategies. But regular players will stop having fun after a few hours, and even lovely graphics and a pleasant soundtrack won&s;t save it."

"The Wandering Village has a grasp of the building blocks of its genre, but never truly capitalises on its core mechanics or its premise. Rather, it presents an enjoyable but somewhat shallow city-builder that just happens to also be on …"

"The Wandering Village ticks all the right boxes as a city-building game. Managing not only your village but also a giant creature is a unique concept that is mostly well done. It isn&s;t just a gimmick; the theme adds to …"

"The Wandering Village is a stunning colony sim that is at once approachable for any player but at the same time offers some complex challenges to contemplate and consider. Limited by just its story mode, as well as a finite …"

"To me, this is a good representation of what a Cozy Game can be and one game I can see myself returning to here and there if I want to just relax for a bit. Yes, the waiting can get …"

"Genre fans and newcomers alike will find something fascinating within the world of The Wandering Village; though hampered by a slow pace in its early hours, the game continues to astound in everything from its visual design to its ever-expanding …"

""Would you build a village on giant&s;s back?""

"The Wandering Village is the perfect game to add to your city sim collection, with its random biomes and sizable research tree, it offers its own twist to the genre. The added story was well told and never felt forced …"