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'.
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