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What is Wanderburg?
Wanderburg is a single-player action roguelike developed by Randwerk and published by Sidekick Publishing for Windows PC on Steam. You drive the castle itself: the same structure that carries your weapons also has to turn, pursue targets, and escape danger. Consuming settlements and other smaller targets feeds its growth, while boss victories expand the fortress further. Modules add combat capabilities; captains and artifacts broaden the choices available between runs. This portal connects the game’s systems with practical guides, versioned database records, and concise update coverage.
Open the field notes →- Platform
- PC / Steam
- Developer
- Randwerk
- Publisher
- Sidekick Publishing
- Release stage
- Early Access
- Early Access release
- 2026-09-08
- Game mode
- Single-player
- Genre
- Action roguelike
- Engine
- Unity 6
Popular Guides
All guides →Start with survival, then learn how equipment decisions and unlocks change your options. Choose the beginner guide for immediate decisions, builds for combat tradeoffs, or progression for goals between attempts.
Beginner Guide
Learn the consume-and-grow loop, choose safer fights, and understand equipment before committing to a complicated build.
Read guide →02 / INTO THE WORKSHOPBest Builds and Build Principles
Compare practical build approaches, understand captain tradeoffs, and choose equipment around a problem you can identify.
Read guide →03 / THE NEXT EXPEDITIONProgression Guide
Separate run growth, unlocks, rerolls, difficulty, and achievements so each attempt has a clear purpose.
Read guide →Explore the database
Open the archives →Explore modules, captains, artifacts, vehicles, and biomes. Find an equipment role, learn a character tradeoff, and follow related guides to plan your next build.
Modules field notes
Start with documented attacks and utility, then compare how they fit your build. Check automatic behavior and active actions separately: a change to one need not improve the other.
Front Barracks
An offensive module with an active ability. Hotfix 0.9.9 strengthened that ability and corrected its diminishing-damage upgrades.
Side Ballista
A module whose automatic attack and active ability were adjusted in opposite directions: the automatic attack was weakened, while the active ability was strengthened.
Force Mage
The active ability can cancel incoming projectiles, a behavior added in hotfix 0.9.9.
Captains field notes
Choose a captain around your playstyle and the goal of your run. Consider which drawback affects your usual actions, then consult the full in-game ability before selecting.
Biomes field notes
Check the region and difficulty context behind your next encounter. Keep ordinary objectives and overtime separate when comparing what a setup can handle.
Grassland
A region with multiple difficulty variants. Official notes name its second difficulty Meadows and adjust enemies and encounters across Grassland difficulties.
Dark Forest
A region whose second and third difficulty enemy compositions were changed to fewer, stronger enemies in hotfix 0.9.6.
Desert
A biome with an overtime phase. Hotfix 0.9.8 revised Desert overtime and strengthened the Overtime Mortar.
Builds and comparisons
Comparison criteria →Compare captain tradeoffs and module roles before copying a loadout. Find recommendations for beginners, active-ability setups, and contact-oriented combat.
Wanderburg screenshots
Official Randwerk promotional screenshots from the press-kit archive. Release visuals may differ.
Official launch trailer
Published by Randwerk. Choose play to load YouTube.
Latest dispatches
All updates →Concise official-update coverage, with version context for the equipment and guides it affects. Use the affected-page links to revisit a particular rule without treating every hotfix as a reason to rebuild your loadout.
Hotfix 0.9.10 — Rerolls and captain tradeoffs revised
Unlocking more modules and artifacts now adds rerolls. Back Turret and Side Arm balance changed, several captain penalties were reduced, and artifact-trigger and allied-stun issues were fixed.
Hotfix 0.9.9 — Vehicle handling and active abilities adjusted
Tower and Spider received earlier-level handling changes. Force Mage gained projectile cancellation, Side Ballista shifted power toward its active ability, and boss tombstones became collectible for silver.
Hotfix 0.9.8 — Controller alternative and Nitro timing
An alternative controller driving style was added. The update also addressed Ram damage, player health rounding, Desert overtime, and stability.
A few things to know
All questions →What is Wanderburg?
Wanderburg is a single-player action roguelike about driving and expanding a mobile castle. Consume smaller targets, upgrade modules, and fight larger fortresses.
Is Wanderburg a roguelike?
Yes. Each run combines a procedurally generated map with castle growth and module upgrades. Between runs, unlock more options for future builds.
Is Wanderburg multiplayer?
Wanderburg is a single-player game.