Characters each have personality types which play off of each other and the environment. What makes the game fascinating, though, is its narrative engine. The game is competent as a video game, with interesting combat and optimization choices across its three character types: Warrior, Hunter, and Mystic. It is primarily a tactical turn-based RPG in the vein of X-COM, where party members move across an overworld map and then face off against a variety of monsters in grid-based dungeons. Wildermyth is designed by Worldwalker Games, and was published in June of 2021. So what happens when a digital game designer tries to make their video game feel more like a tabletop RPG? You get Wildermyth. Meanwhile, tabletop roleplaying games have always had the flexibility of a human GM to give them more breadth and a personal touch that video games couldn’t match. Current titles have gorgeous graphics and complex storylines, but narratively are mostly static affairs. Role-playing video games were fairly direct emulations of rulesets like D&D early on, but as the software became more sophisticated they played more to their strengths. The first licensed D&D video game came in 1982, and it paved the way not only for later licensed games like the SSI ‘Gold Box’ titles and Baldur’s Gate but also virtually the entire video game RPG genre, from Final Fantasy to The Elder Scrolls to Diablo.
While D&D was published in 1974, the very first attempts to emulate D&D with a computer came in 1975 Dungeon and DND were written for mainframe systems like the PDP-10 and PLATO, though they were unlicensed and never saw commercial sales. Role-playing games and video games came of age around the same time.
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