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

By Liam Dawe - 18 Jul 2025 at 8:37 am UTC

The Wandering Village from Stray Fawn Studio is a really unique city-builder that takes place on the back of a giant moving creature. It has Native Linux support and is Steam Deck Verified / SteamOS Compatible.

It's unlike any other village / city-builder I've played due to the way the game progresses, with you going through different locations with events. A really great idea and visually pleasing too. Nice to see it fully release now with a lot of content enhancements since the initial Early Access release.

As usual for a lot of games now, the 1.0 release is not the end of the road. They're working on addressing feedback and a 1.1 "Quality of Life & UX update" is planned, along with a further 1.2 update to expand the interactions and relationship you have with the giant creature named Onbu.

For the 1.0 release they made a sweet animated trailer:

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The Wandering Village | Release Date: 14th September 2022

Official links:

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Tags: Native Linux, Steam Deck, City Builder, Indie Game, New Release, Steam | Apps: The Wandering Village

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3 comments

cloudseer 5 hours ago

Got a lot of love for this game, after a very chilled and engaging early access gamepass run through. Got a steam copy of the game to go and see what’s changed.

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Geppeto35 2 hours ago

wow what a plagiarism of Miyazaki! Thankfully, he is not Nintendo XD

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ScottCarammell 2 hours ago

person who's never really played civ sims here, HEAVY recommendation from me. the game is a banger

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