(or Wanderers of Io) is a multiplayer Web Game made by Polish programmer Rezoner, who also made Wilds Io. Both games have similar pixel-art graphics.You control a tribe of up to 6 minions with a totem, leading them to objects to indirectly order them to collect resources and fight enemies (of both other player-owned tribes and AI-controlled rogues/barbarians) across a sandbox of barren land and meadows, the latter of which contain food, wood and sometimes coins (plus water in Castle Mode). At certain experience levels, more abilities and upgrades can be selected.
Tribes of the same color will not attack each other (and can thus act as allies). By default, a tribe is either red or brown, but uniquely colored teams can be used by each player involved entering the same "group text".
There are two available modes to play, the beginner "Tribes Mode" and the more advanced "Castle Mode". While some aspects of Tribes Mode are unique to it, Castle Mode has additional features such as growing plants and constructing forts and more to aid other tribes and attack others' forts.
Wanderers.io provides examples of:
- Alertness Blink: Coming into proximity with an enemy tribe causes an exclamation mark to appear above each minion about to be involved in the ensuing fight.
- Devious Daggers: Minions equipped with a dagger steal gold from those they attack (although their targets are limited with the use of this weapon).
- Experience Points: Killing a rabbit (or opening a chest) gets 1 level point each. Killing enemies gives 2 or more points each.
- Fire of Comfort: Constructing a campfire (which costs 1 wood per unit you have) and putting your totem within its range allows your units to sit around it and use up food to restore health.
- Giant Mook: A barbarian giant occasionally spawns in the middle of the map in Tribes Mode, dropping more loot than a usual barbarian does when killed.
- Technicolor Toxin: A variant. If a minion is poisoned by a bad mushroom, they briefly turn pale and a green skull-shaped mist appears above them as their health decreases.
- Heal It with Water: Rain not only restores a meadow's groundwater and thus regenerates trees, mushrooms and grass, but it also causes rocks (which can be mined to get coins) to form again. In Castle Mode, groundwater can be accessed with wells, and water can be transferred to other wells to restore the water of its adjacent meadow (which aids in growing plants, only rain causes nature to regenerate instantly).
- I'm a Humanitarian: The "Cannibalism" skill makes your tribe gain extra food from looting dead people.
- Know Your Vines: Mushrooms can be taken as food, but some kinds are poisonous and will reduce a minion's health by 1. However, the "Mycology" skill makes any mushroom edible.
- Loot Boxes: A yellow dot on the compass map indicates where a chest is, which can be opened to get 1 food, 1 wood, 1 coin and 1 level point for free.
- My Master, Right or Wrong: The followers are absolutely devout to the totem that you drag around to lead them, as they consider it a representation of you. The only conditions to make one do an action is for the totem to be in range of the item involved and for the right tool to be equipped (e.g., a bow is needed to shoot rabbits, any tool can be a weapon to attack an enemy in range, etc.) They even loot from the corpses of their fellow comrades (as well as their enemies), though with some tears shed in the process.
- Poison Mushroom: Mushrooms either add 1 to your food inventory or reduce one of your units' health by 1, depending on its colors. Hovering over one gives the text "I'm not sure if this is edible...", and taking a bad one says,"This one was poisonous. I should finally learn all the mushrooms."
- Robbing the Dead: After a battle, the bodies of the fallen are looted by those left standing, even that of their fallen allies (there is brief crying as they loot those ones though).
- Scoring Points:
- In Tribes Mode, the leaderboard shows the scores of each current player's tribe.
- In Castle Mode, an enclosed fort gets on the leaderboard with a randomised name, and the bigger the fort, the higher the score.
- When It Rains, It Pours: Clouds float around and above the setting, and will either heavily rain over a meadow to rejuvenate its resources, or not rain at all.
