Wanderstop has just received a PS5 release date of 11th March, 2025, thanks to this new trailer.
The game comes from Ivy Road, a studio headed up by Davey Wreden — best known for The Stanley Parable and PC title The Beginner's Guide. Wreden talks over this new trailer for the game, which is by-and-large a cosy sim-style game about making tea.
However, as he explains, producing a cosy game as a tonic after toiling away at his previous work didn't quite go as expected, the result being a story weaving in themes relating to his real life feelings and experiences.
In other words, yes, this is a cute game about farming resources and serving up tea in your shop, but it's also about a character who'd rather not be doing that at all. It seems to be subverting the idea of a cosy game by introducing what sounds like a fairly hard-hitting, personal narrative between all the tranquil tasks.
The game itself looks decent, but we're definitely now more interested in the story it'll be telling when it arrives in a few months.
Are you excited for Wanderstop on PS5? Let it steep in the comments section below.
[source youtube.com]
Comments 5
I admit…I have interest in this.
This looks interesting and creative, I will be sure to keep an eye out for it thanks.
Wow. As somebody in a similar situation this video just caught me of guard and brought tears to my eyes.
I hope the dev reads this.
I thought the initial trailer was extremely corny and this new one isn't really moving me from that. Idk man, making a cute colorful game where the protagonist has trauma and mental health issues, that's not exactly uncharted territory for indies. Maybe it's a little too charted, it was a bit of a meme for a while.
That isn't to say the game can't be good on its own merits or won't be well written, it absolutely can, but how noteworthy is "subverting the cozy game" nowadays really?
I suppose to its credit there's less subversions of the life sim genre than other genres (that I'm aware of). But obviously this game is meant to be a narrative experience disguised as a life sim rather than being a life sim with a narrative, and whenever I see stuff like that it comes off as a bit disingenuous. Maybe just not for me.
Looks interesting, particularly if they can nail down a good narrative with characters you care about. I’m all down for crying into the teas of whacky characters for cold, hard earned virtual dollars
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