Outside of battle, Wildermyth appropriately looks something like a board game. However, this combat is not really the main draw to what Wildermyth offers. You have to consider positioning on the battlefield, unit strengths and weaknesses, and everything else you'd expect out of a solid tactical RPG. There are some genuine tactics that need to be made if you want to get through unscathed, especially considering your team health doesn't automatically heal in-between bouts. The combat in Wildermyth is not very deep, but it's honestly pretty good for what it is. Infusing with a stone wall will let them sling rocks/bricks at foes for decent damage, while infusing with a firepit will let them set enemies on fire, etc. Instead of simply slinging fireballs, mystics will 'infuse' with pieces of the environment, which will affect the types of magic they can perform. The mystic is certainly the most unique class of the three. The warrior and ranger classes are generally what you'd expect, with the warrior being primarily a damage dealer or tank, and the ranger doing damage from afar with some status effects thrown in. The tactical combat in Wildermyth basically centers on the three classes your characters can be: Warrior, Ranger, or Mystic. This system is a bit 'SRPG-lite' compared to other strategy RPGs. While you'll occasionally get an alternate objective to 'escape' the field by getting your party to a certain side of the map, more often than not it's simply a matter of taking out your foes before they take you out. You (usually) take up to five members of your party in bite-sized maps with the goal to clear out all of the enemy units on the field. Many events in Wildermyth are accompanied by a combat system that should look pretty familiar to anyone who has played a grid-based tactical/strategy RPG. Many of these events have just enough wit or humor to keep things interesting, though some fall bland or flat.
While there are, of course, some rules in place about which events can take place at which times, it is effectively randomized. There seem to be dozens, if not more than 100, of these individual little story bits that can play out. Another event has your party stumble across a small village held hostage by a group of antagonists, and you make a decision on how you want to proceed with the situation. Depending on your choice, you may get a new piece of equipment, a transformed character, or nothing at all. Here I was given three options, to take the gemstone, say a prayer, or just leave it as is. One of the characters wanders off and finds a shrine with a gemstone attached. To lay out an example, one such event has my party traveling through a cave. Each of your party members has a set of randomized personality traits, which will affect which events that appear, and other factors can also alter how these events may carry out. As you proceed through Wildermyth, the game will semi-randomly draw one of these 'story packets' and stitch them together in a truly unique campaign that won't be quite the same as anyone else.Įven more impressively, each event has a variety of permutations based on the characters in your party, their personalities, their relationships, and their histories. Rather than a typical front-to-back storyline, imagine a deck comprised of dozens of individual 'story packets', each of which is a short event involving the characters in your party. Each 'chapter' opens with a bespoke written opening and each chapter ends with a bespoke ending, but everything that happens in between chapter bookends is 'procedural', both in terms of gameplay and writing.
How Wildermyth works is like this: at the start of the game, you generate a few characters and pick one of five 'campaigns' to play through, with most of these being five chapters long (a campaign being about 5-10 hours each). Since it's a bit atypical from most of the RPGs we cover, let me lay it out.
It incorporates tactical combat as well, but the game's overall procedural structure is where it primarily makes its mark. I'd probably describe it as something reminiscent of a table-top experience, only with the game itself acting as your DM. So what is Wildermyth? According to its store page, it is a 'character-driven, procedurally-generated tactical RPG'. However, the word of mouth surrounding this procedurally-generated RPG was so great, I knew I needed to set some time aside to check it out before the year came to a close. Wildermyth is one of those games I've spotted out of the corner of my eye here & there, and it seemed interesting enough on paper, but with a busy schedule & a small team here at RPG Site, I simply didn't get a chance to check it out when it launched out of Early Access this Summer.
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