Wanderlust: Travel Stories News

Our game Wanderlust: Travel Stories is featured at Tokyo Game Show 2019, where it competes for awards in the Indie Games category! Attendance at Asia's major gaming event was made possible by our publisher Walkabout Games.

Wanderlust is available to play for the show's guests and for everyone else it is streamed live on Steam -- alongside our sister game Liberated, also supported by Walkabout.



We're excited to show our "digital travel experience" to an audience known for their taste for unusual game concepts. As gamers ourselves, who have been enjoying Japanese games since the 1990s, being at TGS2019 is like arriving at the goal of a long and exciting journey.

You can play the demo of Wanderlust: Travel Stories at https://wanderlust.voyage. The game will be released on 26 September 2019.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1051410/Wanderlust_Travel_Stories/

The booth presenting Wanderlust Travel Stories, a small indie game about real-world globetrotting, got a surprising amount of attention at PAX West 2019 in Seattle.

Wanderlust is a game unlike any other: bridging literature and gaming, it makes the player both the reader and the storyteller. Featuring 4 long and 5 short stories, it lets you travel from Africa to Antarctica, from Europe to Asia, making meaningful choices and changing the characters' perspectives.



During PAX West 2019, Wanderlust got a lot of attention from visitors, most of whom took time to play through the entire long demo of the game. The average play time was 25 minutes.

"It was great to see people choosing to stay with us for so long when there were hundreds of other games to see. We were surprised to discover that even teens took interest in Wanderlust, a game focused on something else than fast-paced action. We even had a mother reading our game to her 5-year-old daugher," recollects Piotr Gnyp from Walkabout, the publisher of Wanderlust Travel Stories.



The game will premiere on 26 September 2019, on PC and iOS devices. Learn more and play the demo at https://wanderlust.voyage.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1051410/Wanderlust_Travel_Stories/

Hey, I’m Jacek.

You might’ve seen my name in the credits for The Witcher 1. Games have been a big part of my life, but whenever I don’t make them, I travel the world (110 countries and counting!). During one of these journeys, I thought: is there a single game that tries to simulate what I’m feeling right now? I didn’t think so. This was the moment when the idea for Wanderlust Travel Stories started to sprout.

Traveling is about excitement and discovery, but there’s also this sense of longing, and sometimes uncertainty about what awaits you. I asked my friends, who also travel a lot, if they’d like to make a game that would channel these emotions, and they agreed!



The game takes you on 9 globetrotting journeys, telling 4 long and 5 short stories of life-changing travels. You’ll visit such inspiring countries as Bangladesh, Congo, Argentina, Thailand, France, Spain and even Antarctica.

You won’t have to hurry. You won’t have to fight. This isn’t about a rush of adrenaline. This is about taking in the beauty of the real world. It’s what we call ‘slow gaming’.

We like to say that Wanderlust is the sum of who we are. It was inspired by what we felt during our journeys, and what they mean to us today.



The gameplay is a mix of literature and gaming. You are the reader and the storyteller. You meet the protagonists and learn their motivations and goals. By making choices you shape their journeys.

What to pack? Which route to take? What to say to the stranger you just met? What to buy so you still have money for the rest of the trip? And most of all: how does this make you feel?

What you decide also makes the traveler change their world views. Every journey ends with your character becoming an internally ‘richer’ person.



I realize this isn’t a title for everyone. We want it to be the game you play when you’re traveling -- or wish that you were. Even though I love traditional games, I wanted to create something different, personal and meaningful. That’s why we say that this game is us: Marta, Karolina, Joanna, Mateusz, Artur and I.

We hope you’ll enjoy it.

Bon voyage!

Dear fans! We’re absolutely thrilled to let you now that our game has received 2 awards for the Community Vote and Best Mobile Indie Game during this year’s Digital Dragons Indie Showcase!

We wish to thank everyone who made it possible. Congrats to other winners as well!



Soon we'll release more info about our project, so wishlist it on Steam, and check out our social media and communities:

• Different Tales at Facebook
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• Wanderlust Travel Stories official subreddit

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