- The Wandering Village Dev-Diary: Keeping Levi Hydrated - 10 September 2026
Dear Onbu RidersWe're making steady progress on the upcoming DLC, The Last Leviathan, and wanted to share more details on what makes Levi unique!Levi's back is dominated by a giant lake. This is how Levi stores water in order to survive on land. But it's also crucial to the survival of your village: the settlers never needed to get smart about extracting water from the air - instead, they just take it from Levi! The lake is also brimming with fish, keeping villagers fed. Keep Levi well-hydrated, and it will thrive. Corals and trees will grow quickly, and fish will be plentiful.But the environment can take a toll on Levi. Deserts will drain Levi's water reserves quickly, especially if villagers need the water for themselves, too. If Levi dries out, the corals on its back will calcify, fish will become harder or even impossible to catch, and Levi may even start to lose health. When the la…
- Giant creature city builder The Wandering Village is getting a watery DLC - 7 July 2026
The Wandering Village: The Last Leviathan is an upcoming water-themed DLC for the unique city builder that brings a whole lot of new content. Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/giant-creature-city-builder-the-wandering-village-is-getting-a-watery-dlc/
- The Last Leviathan DLC Reveal - 6 June 2026
Dear Onbu RidersWe’re thrilled to introduce you to the first big gameplay expansion after the 1.0 release! 🎉 The Wandering Village: The Last Leviathan will feature a new giant players can befriend and learn to live on. Levi, a distant relative of Onbu, is a marine creature that feels right at home in the ocean. In addition to keeping Levi fed and free of poison, you also have to make sure to always keep it well hydrated. 💧🌱 This DLC will also bring many more additions: over a dozen new buildings, new resources, new plants, a new parasite and a heavily modified tech-tree tailored to Levi's needs. While we didn’t decide on a release date yet, our team is working hard on the DLC and can’t wait to show you more! 💪 You can watch the trailer and wishlist the DLC to ensure you don’t miss any updates here:In tandem with the DLC release, we will also ship a free update that will further deep…
- 1.1.6 Patchnotes - 4 June 2026
Bugfixes - Fixed bug, where villagers went hungry even if there was enough food - Fixed bug, where farmers would not harvest decayed crops
- The Wandering Village Physical Editions releasing July 30th - 17 April 2026
Dear Onbu Riders, As you may recall, we teased the physical PlayStation and Nintendo Switch collector's and premium editions of The Wandering Village in collaboration with Serenity Forge in July last year. We’re thrilled to announce that both editions will be released on July 30th! Pre-Orders are still live, so make sure to grab them if you’re a fan of physical editions and get some extra awesome goodies too!Cheers and thank you so much for your support,Stray Fawn Studio
- Lowest Historical Discount & Onbu Skin DLC Release - 8 December 2025
Dear Onbu Riders, The Wandering Village is featured on Steam this week as a Midweek Madness deal with its highest discount ever, 50% off! Our art team has been busy putting together an Onbu skin DLC, featuring 5 new Onbu skins. The DLC just launched with a 10% discount: If you already own the Collectors Edition, you can get an extra 10% off via this bundle: And if you need even more city-builders or strategy games to play during the holidays, make sure to drop by our Stray Fawn Winter Sale on Steam featuring historically lowest discounts: https://store.steampowered.com/developer/strayfawn/sale/wintersale In the meantime, we are working on a big new content update that will launch next year 🙂 Happy holidays & Thank you very much for your support,Stray Fawn Studio
- 1.1.5 Patchnotes - 8 December 2025
Changes- Add ability to handle DLC content
- Steam Award Nominations - 24 November 2025
Dear Onbu RidersIt’s that time of the year again: The Steam awards just went live. With Wandering Village finally hitting 1.0 this July, we are now eligible for nominations again 🙂 We would greatly appreciate it if you nominate us! We hope you have been enjoying the game and are super happy that we finally managed to take the step out of Early Access after 2.5 years. All in all, we have now been working on The Wandering Village for 5 years! Crazy right? This is by far the biggest project we have ever made. And we’re not done! A big new update is in the works! This week, our studio is celebrating its 9th birthday. We are super grateful for all your support. We would have never made it this far without you ❤️ Cheers & Thank you very much for your support,Stray Fawn Studio
- 1.1.4 Patchnotes - 6 October 2025
Changes Updated Unity version to apply a security patch
- Quality of Life Update - 29 September 2025
Dear Onbu Rider Thank you all so much for making The Wandering Village’s launch a success! We hope you are having as much fun playing the game as we have working on it ✨ We have been busy listening to your feedback and putting together an update that focuses on improving as many points as possible. We are happy to introduce the Quality of Life update! If you often find yourself wishing that villagers would clean up after themselves, we have great news: The Hauling Post lets you task villagers with picking resources off the floor and storing them, as well as with moving resources between buildings. Workers get a substantial boost in movement speed and carry capacity, too! We know that it can be hard to find the correct technology to research next. We have added a search function to the research tree, letting you quickly find what you’re looking for. In the same spirit, we have improved t…
- Patchnotes 1.1.3 - 29 September 2025
What's New The new search bar allows you to quickly find any technology in the research tree! You can now build the Hauling Post, a rework of the old Worker Post. Workers employed here will pick up stuff from the ground and keep production buildings well stocked. They get a substantial boost to movement speed and carry capacity, too. Story quests and tutorials can now be collapsed into a compact format instead of disappearing completely. This should eliminate issues where players wouldn't find the quests anymore after unpinning them. We have added 5 additional sandbox options centered on construction and research, allowing you to tailor the game to your preferred playstyle. Compost on Farm, Herbalist, Mycologist increases yield instead of growth speed. The 'Crop Fertilizer' upgrade further boosts the yield to +2. Farm/Herbalist/Mycologist/Aquafarm workers can now also harvest crops from…
- Patchnotes v1.0.4 - 19 August 2025
Bugfixes Fixed exception when Scavenging Trading Display was closed with right-click and then opened again Fixed scavenging buildings dumping their rewards in the middle of the village instead of storing them
- Patchnotes v1.0.3 - 6 August 2025
Improvements Forcibly show a quest’s side panel when a new transmission is incoming, even if that quest is unpinned Proper world-map visuals for some story-related locations Korean localization improvements Fixed unlocalized side-objective in a certain main story quest Don’t show survey prompt when closing the game Bugfixes Fixed a rare case where the “Someone wants to talk to you” prompt for side quests would not properly work, and stick around forever after showing the initial dialogue Fixed Onbu not stopping in final story location if a "Lie Down" command was issued just before issuing the "Go Home" command Fixed an issue where a scavenging decision would not trigger when being clicked, if the same scavenging team previously visited a sidequest location and the “Someone wants to talk to you” prompt was not yet accepted Fixed last active tutorial not getting cleared upon completion. M…
- 1 Week since Launch - Thank You & Development Update - 24 July 2025
Dear Onbu Rider It feels like we have only blinked once since The Wandering Village launched into 1.0, but it’s already been a week! Thank you all very much for helping to make the launch a success 🎆 We are trying hard to read through all of your feedback and have started working on several quality of life improvements for the 1.1 update, such as: Worker Management Overlay which allows you to quickly move workers and enable/disable buildings. Hauling Post which allows you to employ workers as Haulers and Sweepers with extra movement speed and carrying capacity. Research Search Bar And much more 😀 For development insights, please make sure to join our Discord! While we are programming away, we would greatly appreciate it if you could continue to help us push our launch! Here are some things you can do: 📝 Write a review for the game ▶️ Tell your favourite YouTuber/streamer to check out…
- The game where you build a symbiotic village on the back of a giant monster is finally done - 20 July 2025
Delightful city building game The Wandering Village has hit its 1.0 release and celebrated with a delightful animated trailer about life in a toxic world where you're safest at home in your village—which happens to be built on a mesa atop the back of a gigantic six-legged monster named Onbu... Read more.
- City-building on the back of a giant creature, The Wandering Village 1.0 is out now - 18 July 2025
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 - 17 July 2025
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. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Unique city building game The Wandering Village just got even better One of the best LGBT games is free, and you need to play it The Wandering Village is a city-building game on a dinosaur
- The Wandering Village 1.0 Release - 17 July 2025
We just launched the 1.0 version of The Wandering Village 🥳 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: There is a 35% discount to celebrate the launch! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1121640/The_Wandering_Village What changed since Early Access? 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…
- Patchnotes v1.0.2 - 17 July 2025
Finally, the little surprise we promised is here! Animated intro
- Patchnotes v1.0.2 - 3 July 2025
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
