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Wayward
You awake to discover yourself no longer in the company of good men or a fine seafaring vessel. Treasure... you remember something about treasure. Wayward is a challenging turn-based, top-down, wilderness survival roguelike. Explore, build, and most importantly survive in these unforgiving lands.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-27 · quoted reviews as of 2026-10-16.
“TL:DR - This game is extremely good. The updates are pretty slow so that part sucks, but otherwise it's pretty playable as is. There's a decent exchange between the community and the developer, he's super active on the game's subreddit. In terms of community outreach I'd say the…”
— a player, Steam review · 338 hrs played“I give it a Yes but with a stipulation: Stop calling it Early Access and finish the main game already, and just call this stuff you're doing now content updates. It's been in EA for the past 10 years at LEAST by now. It's a great game, tons of systems, tons of things to do, but…”
— a player, Steam review · 126 hrs played“Forget the graphics. If you read on and the pros list for this game makes your knees go weak and/or your shlong get hard, play this game and in your obsessive dreams of Wayward the graphics will look better than the most crisp, clean VR game you've ever seen. 1. Hardcore mode…”
— a player, Steam review · 406 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Cursebreaker Update #5
Hope you all had a great Summer Sale! While we are busy working on the next major update, we thought we might split off some of the changes/improvements and bug fixes into a smaller update that you se
Cursebreaker Update #4
Good day (night?) all! We have another smaller update ready for release today. We wanted to get this one out a bit quicker to fix up some recent performance issues that have been widely reported, but
Cursebreaker Update #3
We have a new release filled to the brim with bug fixes and some improvements/additions to the curse system. Hope you enjoy! Bonus Promo: The Steam Spring Sale has sprung! Wayward is currently -25% of
Cursebreaker Update #2
Only a few days remain until the big day, but who cares about that? We have an early update gift for you instead! In this update, we focused on improving lots of areas of the game and smoothing out so
Cursebreaker Update #1
It's patch night! After our launch on the weekend, you all have discovered quite a few issues. The release tonight will hopefully address some of the bigger ones, with more on the way. Keep 'em coming
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Adventure, Indie, RPG, Simulation, Early Access |
| Player tags | Survival · Open World Survival Craft · Pixel Graphics · Rogue-like · Crafting · Traditional Roguelike · RPG · Open World · Sandbox · Adventure · Simulation · Indie (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · PvP · Online PvP · LAN PvP · Co-op · Online Co-op · LAN Co-op |
| Languages | English |
| Official site | http://www.waywardgame.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10, Windows 11 Processor: 2.4 GHz dual core or better Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: GPU with WebGL support, 512MB of video memory, and at least 128 GFLOPS. Storage: 1 GB available space Additional Notes: View hardware compatibility list and check for WebGL support: