The Wandering Village

The Wandering Village is a city-building and survival simulation on the back of a giant creature called Onbu. In a world overrun by toxic spores, a group of survivors builds a new home there. You lead the settlement and must also decide how to treat its living carrier.

The game combines production chains, village planning and exploration with the needs of a wandering creature. The story of Onbu and its human co-residents forms the core of the decisions.

The Wandering Village was fully released on Jul 17, 2025. On PC, Early Access began as early as Sep 14, 2022. A game preview version was available for Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S from Jul 20, 2023.

The full version was released simultaneously for PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and Nintendo Switch. The console versions are standalone native releases.

You can play The Wandering Village on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and Nintendo Switch. The PC version supports Windows, macOS and Linux. On Xbox, the game supports Xbox Play Anywhere and keyboard and mouse input on the console, according to Microsoft.

City building is designed for single players. A shared online settlement or co-op mode is not part of the game.

On Onbu's back, you place homes, fields, workshops and other buildings. Resources and food must not only be gathered but also processed in sensible production chains and distributed. Because usable space is limited, the arrangement of buildings determines how reliably your settlement works.

As the village grows, you research technologies and unlock new options for farming, supplies and survival. Residents need food, shelter and working routes that function.

The Last Leviathan is an announced major expansion. Instead of Onbu, the settlement is built on the sea creature Levi. Water management, new resources, plants, buildings, parasites and an adjusted research tree change the tasks.

Onbu Skin Pack, released on Dec 8, 2025, adds five alternative looks for Onbu but does not change any game mechanics. An artbook, wallpapers and soundtrack are also sold separately.

On Windows, the game requires at least a quad-core processor, 4 GB RAM, a graphics card roughly on the level of a GeForce GTX 660 or Radeon RX 460, and 2 GB of free storage. 8 GB RAM and a GeForce RTX 2070 or Radeon RX 5700 are recommended.

The Steam version also supports macOS and Linux. On macOS, a Metal-capable graphics solution and at least 4 GB of RAM are listed.

Onbu is more than the ground beneath your settlement: the being wanders through the world, needs food and can react to external dangers. Its health helps determine whether the village survives difficult stages. With suitable buildings and research, its needs can be observed more closely and its movements influenced.

You can try to build trust and protect Onbu, or exploit its resources more heavily. The consequences affect your relationship with the creature and therefore your inhabitants' chances of survival.

Onbu's migration passes through different biomes with their own temperatures, plants and dangers. What grows well in one region can fail elsewhere. Farming and supplies therefore need to suit the climate and route.

Toxic spores, parasites and extreme weather threaten both Onbu and the village. Facilities for treatment and protection against contamination become especially important on long journeys.

Wood, stone, water and other resources form the basis of the settlement. Buildings turn raw materials into food, building materials or remedies. Not every good is immediately available on Onbu's back.

Village planning depends on short transport routes, sufficient storage and the right number of workers. Later research unlocks additional buildings and processing steps.

Search parties leave the settlement to find rare resources and remnants of the old world in the surroundings. In this way, exploration complements production on Onbu's back.

What you can collect on the way depends on the region Onbu is currently crossing. You have to decide when an expedition is worth it and when the village's safe supply takes priority.

The research tree unlocks new buildings and technologies. Some improve familiar processes, while others open up ways to communicate with Onbu or better fend off dangers.

Research decisions affect the next expansion steps. The order can matter when scarce resources must first be invested in food, transport or protection.

The Wandering Village offers adjustable difficulty options and sandbox settings. You can change the conditions of a game and focus more on planning or on surviving harsh environmental conditions.

You can save at any time. The demands rise mainly from the interplay of supplies, a changing environment and Onbu's condition.

The PC version supports mouse and keyboard as well as controller. On consoles, the settlement can be managed using the adapted controller layout. The game uses menus, building views and maps to organise buildings, inhabitants and expeditions.

The Steam version offers, among other things, scalable font size and individually adjustable volume.

The user interface and text are also available in German. The Steam version also lists English, French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Polish and several other languages.

The documented accessibility options include adjustable difficulty, saving at any time, adjustable font size, separate volume sliders and full controller support.

The world combines three-dimensional environments with hand-drawn and animated two-dimensional characters. While the settlement is organised from a bird's-eye view, Onbu is present as a huge wandering creature in the surrounding landscape.

The changing biomes make the journey visually easy to follow, while the settlement keeps its place on Onbu's back.