The Wayward Realms is an upcoming fantasy Western RPG by OnceLost Games. The studio was founded by Ted Peterson, Julian LeFay, and Vijay Lakshman who were the lead developers on the first games in The Elder Scrolls series — Arena and Daggerfall. The producers have explicitly called the game a Spiritual Successor to Daggerfall, including a massive game world and a "real role-playing experience" that harkens back to the days of 90s PC RPGs.
The game is set on "The Archipelago", a group of over one hundred realistically scaled islands where kingdoms and factions vie for power. Home to both classic fantasy races including humans, elves, dwarves, and orks as well as more "unusual" races, the player will vie for fame and fortune while a "Virtual Game Master" adjusts the plot based on your choices, ensuring that no two players will have the same experience.
Announced in 2019, The Wayward Realms was intially set for a 2021 release but was pushed back repeatedly into 2024, and an updated specific release date has not yet been given.
Two trailers have been released for the game:
- A Teaser Trailer
released on August 1, 2021. - A Lullaby released on January 12, 2022.
The game has a website and a Steam page.
Tropes:
- Alien Sky: One of the screenshots on the game's Steam page shows three moons in the sky.
- Big Creepy-Crawlies:
- One of the screenshots on the game's Steam page shows a large number of four-legged insect-like creatures descending upon a character.
- Another shows a character about to fight a Giant Spider.
- Glowing Flora: One of the screenshots on the game's Steam page shows an alchemical workshop with several varieties of glowing mushroom as ingredients.
- Ironic Nursery Tune: The narrator of the aptly named "A Lullaby" trailer is reading a fictional one about a child going to sleep and dreaming throughout.
- Rock Monster: A pair of these with stone swords and glowing eyes are seen standing guard in a dungeon in the "Lullaby" trailer.
- Technicolor Fire: The character sitting on the throne at the end of the "Lullaby" trailer is ringed by braziers with whitish-blue flames.
- Will-o'-the-Wisp: The teaser trailer shows a character on horseback accompanied by a little ball of light going toward some ruins in a dark, misty forest.
