First-person farming and creature collection game Among the Wild announced for PC
Closed alpha test sign-ups now available.
Sweden-based studio Nuggets Entertainment has announced Among the Wild, a first-person farming game where you wrangle creatures, build and manage a farm, and explore the world. It is planned for an Early Access release for PC via Steam. A release date was not announced. Sign-ups for a closed alpha test are available via the official website.
Here is an overview of the game, via Nuggets Entertainment:
About
Among the Wild is a first-person farming game where you wrangle fantastical creatures, build and manage your own idyllic farm, and set out to explore uncharted corners of a strange universe.
Key Features
- Creatures – Wrangle, take care of, and hang out with a wide variety of creatures. Get to know their diets, behaviors, needs and traits to make them thrive on your farm. Use their inherent or developed abilities to improve your farm, go on adventures, evolve new creatures, or just trade them for profit.
- Farm – Build your own farm however you choose. Plant crops, build bee-hives, smokers, or fermenting barrels to fill whatever need you and your creatures have. Tame the wilderness and design your own cropland, pens, gardens and houses. Juggle the art of herding creatures, cooking, crafting, and trade to further develop your farm and creatures at your own pace.
- Adventure – Explore the wild, find and gather resources, catch creatures, and fend off threats that might get in your way. Go fish, mine precious gems, complete quests to earn unique rewards, and interact with characters to learn more about this strange world.
And here is a FAQ from the game’s official website:
Closed alpha when?
We’re hoping to have some kind of closed alpha testing begin late fall / winter 2024, but we’ll have to see how things work out. We’ll keep you posted!
How long have you been working on this?
A couple of us dabbled with this concept for a couple of years until we realized we were way over-scoped and needed help. Most of the team joined later during 2023 after a lot of begging, and now we’ve started to get an actual game together.
Wait… Did you really beg them to join?
No, I was just trying to be funny. Most folks expressed interest in joining after they saw the game.
Why Early Access?
In the past we’ve enjoyed interacting with a community playing our game as we develop it. We think it’s key for a small team making something quite big over time, and we hope to continue doing that with this game.
When will you ship 1.0?
We don’t know. It depends on the feedback and what we think would make the game great. If people like what we do and we have inspiration we could create content for a couple of years for sure.
Why no multiplayer?
Being a smaller team this time around, we wanted to focus on making a great single player experience first. Sweaty nightmares of packet loss, high latency, and connection issues still haunt us and we wanted to try something new. We’re not even sure if it would be a better game in multiplayer. But… Maybe one day. No promises.
Is your game just “[Insert Creature Collection Game] we have at home”?
No, we don’t think so! While collecting creatures is absolutely one part of the game, Among the Wild’s goal is a lot more focused on interacting with, and understanding your creatures and growing your farm.
Will it come to console?
We don’t know, it’s still too early to say at this stage. But of course it would be awesome to see the game on console.
Watch the announcement trailer below. View the first screenshots at the gallery.