The Wandering Village News

City-building on the back of a giant creature, The Wandering Village 1.0 is out now

The Wandering Village from Stray Fawn Studio is a really unique city-builder that takes place on the back of a giant moving creature.

Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/city-building-on-the-back-of-a-giant-creature-the-wandering-village-1-0-is-out-now/

Stunning city builder set on a dinosaur is like a Studio Ghibli Cities Skylines

I've always been a sucker for a great art style, and city builder The Wandering Village is the latest to catch my eye. To say it's gorgeously animated would be an understatement, but its Ghibli style is only the tip of the iceberg. You'll need to adopt a deep strategic approach to overcome great odds here - and an interest in managing settlements on the back of giant wandering creatures. Sounds like your cup of tea? Well, after nearly three years in early access, the full game is available for you to play right now.

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The Wandering Village 1.0 Release

[h3]We just launched the 1.0 version of The Wandering Village 🥳[/h3]
Our team is super excited and we hope you are too. We can’t believe it’s been 5 years since we first started working on the game!

Check out our new animated trailer created by Trash Studio, a Japanese animation studio:
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There is a 35% discount to celebrate the launch!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1121640/The_Wandering_Village

[h3]What changed since Early Access?[/h3]
Since its Early Access in 2022, the game has received several major updates:

Story Mode: Adding more lore, quests and a story-based end goal to the game.
Ocean and Ruins Biome: New challenges await in the form of new gameplay mechanics, events and scouting locations.
Reworked economy: Improved villager management, a reworked research system and balancing tweaks have increased the game’s depth.
Hostility modifiers: Extra challenges for experienced players.
Gameplay and content expansions: Such as trading, parasites, new buildings, resources, Onbu commands, just to name a few.
Controller and Steam Deck Support
Ported the game to Xbox, PlayStation and Switch
And much more!

[h3]What’s next?[/h3]
Despite 1.0 marking a major milestone for the game, we have already started to address some of the feedback that we received following the recent updates. So stay tuned for the 1.1 Quality of Life & UX update 🙂
Beyond that, we have started to tweak and add some more things related to your interactions and relationship with Onbu. This will be our 1.2 update which we are hoping to release later this year.

[h3]More news:[/h3]
We teamed up with Serenity Forge to create a physical and collector’s edition for Switch + PlayStation which is open for pre-order today at 6PM CEST.

We just launched an Onbu plushie campaign on Makeship.

Along with the release, we're running a Stray Fawn Summer Sale with most of our games being on discount. In case you already own The Wandering Village, you can get discount on our other games via bundles.

Thank you all very much for your continuous support in the past months and years!
We couldn’t have made it here without you ❤️
Stray Fawn Studio

Patchnotes v1.0.2

[p]Finally, the little surprise we promised is here!

Animated intro
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Patchnotes v1.0.2

About this Patch
We named this patch v1.0.2 in preparation of the upcoming release. While we will not add any new features for the upcoming release, we do have a little surprise in store for everyone that will be released on July 17th!

Bugfixes

Fixed being able to start a research while another is still active, causing you to lose all invested resources without warning
Fixed inputs not correctly reset after controller change
Fixed wrong glossary descriptions: gamepad alternatives were ignored