Founded by Nate and Anne Austin, the studio now employs six full-time employees with various other part-time staff. Worldwalker Games, as it turns out, is a bit of a family operation. The game encourages appreciation for creation in all its forms. Your characters build friendships that last for decades. Positive elements: Your band of heroes is dedicated to returning land and villages to the common people, as well as empowering those villages to defend themselves against the threats of the world. Several characters in desperate situations turn to terrible solutions such as human sacrifice to solve their problems. Other negative elements: Some of the choices you make can be morally questionable, but you will face the consequences for them. When creating a character, you are able to choose their sexual orientation, including homosexual options. Sexual Content: Characters can fall in love and have children. There is a resource known as “spellthread” which is said to tie all living things together. The story makes frequent mention of spirits and gods, and your characters will come into contact with many of them. Spirituality: The mystic class uses magic to “interfuse” with various objects, allowing them to use set pieces for attacks. You mostly fight evil creatures, but at times you are forced into battle with humans. If a character is maimed in a battle, one of their limbs may be replaced with a prosthetic one. Violence: Your heroes use a variety of weapons, such as bows, arrows, axes, and swords. My adventures are recorded below for future generations. It gripped the author in me, and I decided to venture out of my comfort zone to try the dreaded tactical RPG once more. This is a game that goes beyond mere combat, and strives to let you tell a story the way you want to. But when I saw Wildermyth, by Worldwalker Games, something intrigued me.

Some less-than-stellar experience with the genre had darkened my view of them as a whole, and I usually steer clear of anything involving grid-based strategy and permadeath.

Wildermyth the merchant