Mirthwood

About

Mirthwood lets you pick your path in a medieval fantasy world split between farming and adventuring. Build a homestead, plant crops, and manage trade routes or swap a plow for a sword to battle creatures and explore dungeons. The game mixes resource management with character-driven quests, letting you shape the story through choices that affect relationships and outcomes. Combat is turn-based with tactical depth while simulation elements require balancing hunger, health, and inventory. The game’s open-ended design encourages experimentation with no single "right" way to play. Developer Bad Ridge Games focuses on player freedom and emergent storytelling, with a release set for November 2024. Early builds show a world where small decisions ripple into bigger consequences making it a slow burn for fans of self-directed RPGs.