Mirthwood Gets Foundations Update

V Publishing and Bad Ridge Games released a major update for open-world life-sim Mirthwood. The Foundations Update adds new story events, seasonal festivals, pets to collect, and more. In addition, the companies announced the game is now Steam Deck Verified.

The new story events include bandit raids and rodent infestations, with players able to react to them in different ways and reach different outcomes. Players can now partake in seasonal festivals, where they can dance and earn rare items from local vendors. The update adds pets, which help players defend their farms against threats including bandits and hungry rats. NPCs can now die permanently and see their corpses resting at their towns’ graveyard. The update also adds new random events and encounters, such as overturned carts, spilled loot, wandering bards, and more.

Mirthwood puts players in the role of a refugee from a war-torn continent and sees them select their own path through non-linear progression in an open world. Available activities and goals include building up a homestead complete with a farm, which helps generate produce to sell to the local town or to trade with others, and exploring forests or ruins while taking on formidable creatures for additional resources. The game includes an NPC relationship system leading to rewards, quests, and potentially romance. Mirthwood is currently available for PC via Steam, where a demo is available.