Gardiner went into even more specific gameplay detail with Digital Trends, offering up some exclusive tidbits. Wyrd is an old English word for fate or karma, so we’re really going to dig into choice and consequence and see how far we can push that envelope in an RPG.” We want to explore that space of unreliable narrators and things that are not as they seem. “Your subconscious has a huge role in the way the waking world appears to you. “We want to explore not only a big open-world game set in this time period, but also the idea that the brain is not a passive receptor of information,” Gardiner explained.
Mix in some Shakespearean influences as well, and Wyrdsong is shaping up to be a mind-bending fantasy adventure. Gardiner directly compared Wyrdsong to the likes of The Witch and Westworld and explained that he wants to couple player choice with mechanics and a storyline that will constantly have players questioning their reality. Unlike most open-world RPGs, Wrydsong will consistently have a psychological horror tinge to it. He thought it would act as an intriguing backdrop to a game where players constantly question what they experience. He read a book called First Templar Nation that revealed many of the eccentricities of that order. Gardiner first fell in love with this topic and subject matter when traveling to Portugal just before the COVID-19 pandemic hit. They’re basically the basis for a lot of the secret societies that exist today.” As you saw in the trailer, we really want to get into the mythological history of the Knight’s Templar and the idea that they had all these weird rituals. “It’s a preternatural, occult historical fantasy RPG set in Middle Ages Portugal because we want vast landscapes and unique architecture. “No surprise, it’s a big open-world RPG!” Gardiner explained when asked to describe Wyrdsong. I learned more about what this occult fantasy RPG middle ground between Bethesda and Obsidian will look like and why Something Wicked Games wants to make players question reality in the same way that Robert Egger’s The Witch does. While Wyrdsong is still in the pre-alpha phase of development, I spoke with Gardiner ahead of its reveal.
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