FAQs for Wyrdsong aims to answer the community's most asked questions regarding the upcoming Adventure RPG. Here you will learn from general ideas such as release date, platforms, price, etc. Please, feel free to submit your own questions if you cannot find the one you are interested in.
Wyrdsong FAQs
WHAT PLATFORMS WILL Wyrdsong BE AVAILABLE ON?
Wyrdsong has not been officially announced for any particular platform. However, in a recent interview, Jeff Gardiner expressed Something Wicked Games is aiming for a release on all platforms, but understands it's too early for such compromise, as the studio is only a few months old.
WHAT TYPE OF GAME IS Wyrdsong?
Wyrdsong is an open-world, preternatural historical fantasy RPG set in Portugal during the Middle Ages. The game is set to explore ideas like the absence of reliable narrators and the alternative views when reflecting on any given time period. For this, a special aim is put on the player's ability to experience the nature of their reality. According to the studio's CEO, Jeff Gardiner, "players will set their course as they dictate", by traversing and shaping the world around them, as well as maybe other worlds.
WHEN WILL Wyrdsong BE RELEASED?
As of October 2022, Wyrdsong doesn't have a confirmed release date. The RPG title is still in the very-early development stages, having been in the works for only a few months. What's more, Something Wicked Games is currently at 20% the desired personnel count for the project, although recently has received substancial funding from the internet content giant, Netease.
Jeff Gardiner, the studio's CEO, aims for a more concrete reveal in 2023: “(…) Hopefully, we will reveal more in the coming year, (…) at least some teases of actual gameplay”. For the time being, he is not going any further on time frames or target dates: ‘‘We're still a long way out from shipping the game so I don’t want to set any deadlines or expectations presently’’.
Who is the developer of Wyrdsong?
Something Wicked Games is a new Independent AAA Video Game Studio founded in 2022 by Jeff Gardiner in collaboration with other game industry leaders from Bethesda Games Studios, Obsidian Entertainment, and BioWare. Jeff Gardiner's experience as a lead Game Developer at Bethesda includes major titles such as Fallout 76, Fallout 4, Fallout 3, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, among others. Besides Gardiner's role as Founder & CEO, Something Wicked Games counts with talents such as co-founders Charles Staples (Director of Design) and Ekram Rashid (Technical Director). Staples comes from Obsidian Entertainment, where he worked on titles like Fallout: New Vegas, South Park: The Stick of Truth and The Outer Worlds, while Ekram Rashid is a former Fallout Shelter and The Elder Scrolls: Blades developer.
