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Excellent fantasy RPG Wildermyth is turning into a roguelike via DLCBut don’t worry, roguedislikers, there’s also a story about some dragon’s ballroom
But don’t worry, roguedislikers, there’s also a story about some dragon’s ballroom
Image credit:Worldwalker Games LLC
Image credit:Worldwalker Games LLC
The Omenroad DLC has two components. “For the fighters, we have a roguelike tactical challenge mode with progression across run,“the Steam page explains. “And for the lovers, we have A Walk in the Unlight, a new story campaign that uses the Omenroad format to take your heroes past the edge of the Yondering Lands and into worlds beyond.” (You will still have to do fights in Omenroad even if you are a lover.)
With these pitiful words I have sought to convey the Omenroad’s intricacies, but as Aristotle might say, words are but shadows and dust before the timeless medium of numbers. Here are some numbers, then.
20 new boss fights
20 new unlockable artifacts and augments
New Shadow spirit and Shadow weapons to discover in both Omenroad and the base game
75 new battle maps with new objectives
A “Wall of Fame” with 12 challenge-based titles for heroes to earn
People who hate roguelikes as they hate hell and all Montagues might prefer the second half of the DLC, the Neverbefore Ball, which transforms the base roguelike format into something like one of the base game’s stories. It follows two adventurers into the Netherflare, a new biome also known as the “land of the lost”.
Here you will “encounter faces both fresh and familiar, crossing the phantom-lands of a thousand Yonderings to arrive at a mystical ballroom in a dragon’s castle.” A ball in a dragon’s castle!!! I speak for myself, but I would endure any number of progression wipes and rerolls to experience such a thing.
The Omenroad DLC doesn’t have a release date. If you’re new to Wildermyth, here’sSin’s review from 2021. (Sin also pointed me towards this DLC announcement in our latest Maw liveblog - thank you Sin!) I also recommend Rick Lane’s piece onhow it was made.
