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The Wandering Village is a city-building game on a dinosaur

The Wandering Village innovates on the traditional city-building game format by challenging players to create their new metropolis on the back of a huge, meandering dinosaur. Tasked with keeping your scaly companion happy, you'll have to navigate ever-changing weather conditions and ecological challenges to keep your population alive in humanity's time of need.


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Steam Next Fest demo: This city-builder sits on a monster's back

Patchnotes 0.2.2

We just released a hotfix, mainly related to Steam Deck support.

Patchnotes 0.2.2

Bugfixes
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- Added fix to allow Keyboard and Mouse Input on Steamdeck

Known Issues
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- You cannot bind actions to different mouse buttons yet
- Touchscreen is not supported yet
- For optimal handheld gameplay on Steamdeck, please activate the Official Gamepad Controller Template

Patchnotes 0.2.1

We just released a hotfix, mainly related to Steamdeck support.

Patchnotes 0.2.1

Bugfixes
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- Fixed bug where you got stuck when returning to main menu on steamdeck
- Fixed some UI scaling issues on Steamdeck
- Updated the localization again to fix some text bugs

Known Issues
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- Keybinds are not yet localized
- You cannot bind actions to mouse buttons yet

Thanks for reporting the bugs!

Cheers & Thanks
Stray Fawn Studio

The Wandering Village gets gamepad and Steam Deck support

The Wandering Village, a very unique city-builder set on the back of a giant creature recently had a major update that added in gamepad support which also helps Steam Deck too.

Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/01/the-wandering-village-gets-gamepad-and-steam-deck-support

New Update & Development Outlook

Dear Onbu Riders,
Thank you all for your ongoing support :)
It’s high time that we give you an update on our development progress!

We have just released the 0.2.0 update, featuring:
- Full Controller Support
- Steam Deck Support (currently pending approval by Steam)
- Steam Achievements
- Auto-Saves
- A Worker Management Window
- 2 new buildings
- Lots of small improvements


You can check out the full patch notes here:
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1121640/view/3673282587150094236



We’re also hard at work on our first big content update for the game: The water biome.
You may have seen some first glimpses of it already:
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1121640/view/3479622422072368407

In the past few weeks...

We have been brainstorming and doodling ideas for new buildings:



Started to paint and implement some of them:



Added a first WIP version of the biome on the overview map:



Faced a lot of technical challenges related to shaders:
We made a behind the scenes video in case you'd like to learn more about our technical approach :D



And then finally got Onbu to swim for the very first time:



The water biome update is still quite a while away from being finished. We'll let you know as soon as a first version can be tested! Meanwhile, please join us over on Discord!
Thanks for checking in and we hope you enjoy the new update :)


Cheers & Thanks,
Stray Fawn Studio