Battling castles on wheels? Wanderburg might be my new favourite thing

Wanderburg is nuts. A roguelike where you build up a castle on wheels (or legs) and battle through various locations and it instantly hooked me. It's not too often that I very quickly go back to a Steam store page to click add to wishlist, follow and manually move it right near the top of my Steam wishlist, but Wanderburg is genuinely great.

A roguelike set in a strange medieval world of roaming fortresses. Everything is on the move, and you have to chase them all down to destroy them (or run for your life) and upgrade your own castle. It's delightfully silly, with action that's constant and you can really build up some wicked-fun castles in it until you eventually have an insane war machine that just crushes everything.

Starting off with a simple weapon, you gradually add more weapons to it and some come with abilities to manually activate so you can really unleash true chaos during a run with explosions everywhere. It feels a bit similar to all these bullet heaven survivor-likes, in the way you build things up during a run by picking cards to expand as you level up from rolling over people and destroying moving buildings and castles.

The boss castles are completely nuts too, like the steamroller of death shown in my screenshot above. The first time that rolled over me - I wasn't even mad. It was hilarious destruction, that really amped me up to want another run. I needed to take it down and explore more of it.

On top of the castle-building during a run, you also accrue gold to take away when a run is completed (or failed). With this gold you can unlock more choices in how you start your castle from different captains, weapon modules, crew types and more that all have different bonuses.

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It works perfectly on Linux with Proton 10.

I'm having so much fun with it that I don't want to do anything else right now. What an absolute delight. I need more of this. Definitely a demo you have to try out during Steam Next Fest.