Wilderplace

Entrant 2023


CREATOR
Saman Bemel-Benrud

Description

The Divine Garden was supposed to be paradise on earth. But something's gone wrong. Only a shaman like yourself can restore balance. Explore an expansive maze-like garden, harness magical artifacts, wrangle restless spirits, and evade dangerous intruders as you uncover the mysteries behind the garden's decay.

Wilderplace is a turn-based spatial puzzle game where gameplay and narrative are intertwined. Navigate a world filled with mischievous spirits transforming victims into trees, mining robots extracting resources from the garden, hapless loggers harvesting trees, mindless automatons reshaping the garden, and many more denizens with their own goals and priorities. The garden's denizens interact with you, but they also interact with each other. For example, logger's will set aside their hunt for the nearest tree in order to chase down and dismantle mining robots.


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