Mirthwood begins with you fleeing a war-torn continent and ending up in this enchanting land where NPCs always go about their daily lives. Create your new life by building your homestead, exploring various regions, engaging in battle, and shaping the world around you. Move at your own speed, but stay busy with farm-building, cultivating/harvesting, rearing animals, upgrading, exploring the six diverse regions, embarking on quests, investigating mysteries, and participating in real-time combat brawls. You will get improved skills based on your actions, giving you access to skill cards that unlock powerful modifiers. Befriend or insult any NPC, unlocking new social interactions. You can also recruit companions and pets to follow you on your journey.
This month (September), Mirthwood will get polished with hotfixes, patches, performance optimization, achievements, and additional controller support.
October will bring Version 1.1, the Fish Are Friends Update. It brings fishing, new housing upgrades, companions, an NPC relationship tracker, and social actions to the game.
Your taxes are due in November with Version 1.2, the Death and Taxes Update. It includes quests (normal and generated), but it also gets a bit darker with funeral events and ailments. Just in time for flu season here in Canada!
Mirthwood will get festive for the holidays in December. Update 1.3, the Feast and Festivities Update, features time festivals, season content, and Steam Deck Verified Support. It will also bring new world events, crops, and cooking recipes to the game.
From Q2 2025 onwards, Mirthwood will continue to be updated with co-op multiplayer, modding support, Steam Workshop, and the first (presumably paid) DLC expansion.
Developed by two-person team Bad Ridge Games and published by V Publishing, Mirthwood will be released for PC via Steam on September 11.