WANDERSTOP REVIEW

I was given a PS5 code from Developer Ivy Road Games @IvyRoadGames Publisher Annapurna Interactive @A_I

This is released in the UK on the 11/03/2025 and in the UK is priced at £19,99.

INTRODUCTION

Wanderstop is a narrative-centric cozy game about change and tea. Playing as a fallen fighter named Alta, you’ll manage a tea shop within a magical forest and tend to the customers who pass through. But Alta does not want to be here. And if she gets her way, the tea shop will be nothing but a brief and painful memory.

The core game loop of Wanderstop is a tea shop management ritual, starting with growing and harvesting the ingredients needed for tea, and ending with mixing the ingredients together in an unusual tea-making contraption. Along the way you’ll speak with the many characters who pass through the shop, learning their stories and making tea that’s just right for them.

In your downtime you might clean up around the shop, or decorate the shop in your style, or just sit on a bench with a cup of tea and listen to your own thoughts. Maybe doing nothing at all is okay. The shop demands patience, it rejects those who have come only in the pursuit of growth unchecked.

And that’s why Alta can’t be here. It’s why she’ll never make it. This isn’t who she is. No, she’s a fighter! Why would anyone insist on turning the world’s greatest championship warrior into a docile servant?! With everything she’s capable of?? No no no, she won’t, she won’t do it… she can’t…

Wanderstop is a game from the team at Ivy Road, including Davey Wreden (creator of The Stanley Parable and The Beginner’s Guide), Karla Zimonja (co-creator of Gone Home and Tacoma) and Daniel “C418” Rosenfeld (the music of Minecraft).

FAN ART

Story is interesting and fun and different.

Art style is nice and pretty and detailed.

Characters that you meet all have own look and own personality to them and own story aswell is nice.

Planting is fun and different and alot of potential plants to give own rewards with own uses and all have own look.

Tools are fun to use and all have own uses to them.

Making tea is very fun and very different and easy to understand with multiple steps to make Tea with alot of different results is very good.

Very chilled game with no time pressure or stamina or sleep systems and is a very chilled and relax take your time game.

To chilled for me as missed not having a time frame made me feel not urged to do anything

Planting can be awkward especially trying to make certain plants grow as found it awkward trying line up the plants to make certain plants.

OVERALL SUMMARY

Overall story is fun and different with a very nice art style that is detailed and characters you meet all have own look and personality to them and the planting aspect is very cool as all have own look and uses and tools you can use are fun as all own use and making Tea is very fun and alot of options to make tea and is a very chilled game with no time pressure or sleep cycle. However for £19.99, can be to chilled for me as miss not having a clear objective as no time frame or urgency made me feel not urged to do anything and the planting can be awkward trying to make certain plants grow.

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Story is interesting and fun.
Art style is detailed, different.
Characters meet own look, personality.
Planting fun own look, results.
Tools fun own look, uses, fun to use.
Making Tea is fun, multiple steps, fun.
Very chilled game no time pressure just chill, take time relax.

To chilled missed not having objectives.
Planting can be awkward trying make certain plants grow.

Here is video footage from my videos of me playing this on my PS5 then uploading to my YouTube channel link below.

https://www.youtube.com/c/GRIMREAPERSAGE

VIDEO REVIEW

https://youtu.be/dserYxwOliU?si=LgwL1jz_yu9S2yZ7

PLAYLIST

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLL3AM1kazFPxXpD2-PrnfgrVqcY2_s_t9&si=RiFklb7OdGbaFAd-