Wonderia is at TGS & New Playtest is Live! 🎉

For this update, we focused on one thing: Making the world’s background information easier to stumble upon, without interrupting your play.

Instead of long cutscenes or forced exposition, we tried to hide fragments of the past along naturalexploration paths—abandoned insectoid ruins, a missing pilot, missions that never got finished... We’re still figuring out how to enrich the world without getting in your way, but we hope things start to feel a little more alive as you explore. 🌱

If you have any thoughts about this world’s “past” or “future,” we’d love to hear from you in the community! You’ll find many others who are also eager to chat, share feedback, or just laugh about weird bugs.

• Discord: https://discord.gg/y3rY4XhpB5

• X: https://x.com/RockNDashStudio

✨ What’s New in v0.3

• 🧑🚀 Reworked the STB-07 departure ship scene, with added visual and narrative details

• 🚀 Added a new point of interest: the STB-03 crash site

• 🌲 Rebuilt the Insectoid Civilization Ruins in the forest biome, with clearer signs of its lost culture

• 🗿 Adjusted layout of many points of interest, to improve how exploration and combat flow into narrative hints

• 🏡 Updated main NPC dialogue with more backstory; most translations completed with help from our localization team

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⚖️ Balance & Mechanics

• 🍳 Hunger system: Hunger no longer slows you down—it now reduces your maximum health. The risk remains, but pacing feels smoother.

• ⛏️ Loot balance: Item drops have been tuned to feel more generous without turning into a grind.

• 🌱 Farming changes: Crops now grow more slowly, and merchants can now buy excess seeds, helping with mid-game food overflow.

• 👌 UI improvements: The “drop item into world” button has been moved to the backpack screen for easier access. It’s now simpler to hand items to friends in co-op.

• 💬 Community-inspired tweaks:

  • Added more fixed teleport points to reduce unnecessary travel

  • Craftable gear like Grass Armor and Blackbird gear can now be recycled

  • Lots of minor optimizations and bug fixes!

🌍 Localization Notes

• The game now supports 11 languages. All content was originally written by our team; except for Thai, all translations were done by our professional localization partners.

• Due to some last-minute script changes, you may still encounter machine-translated lines —we’re working to patch those quickly.

• We’ve also added a Thai language option. We saw a lot of love from Thai players in earlier Playtests (thank you!), but we must be honest: the current Thai version is fully machine-translated. If you're willing to help us localize the Thai version properly, please reach out at support@indieark.com — we’d be deeply grateful and will credit all volunteers in-game and in the community!

💬 A Few Final Words

Thank you for reading this, and for being part of our journey! We know many of you are excited about new biomes, monsters, and content—and we’re working on them in parallel. But this update doesn’t include flashy new areas yet. Instead, we focused on laying the groundwork: helping the world feel clearer, richer, and more connected, without getting in your way.

If you play this version and notice anything—whether good or confusing—we’d love to hear from you.

We’re still on the road, and we hope we’ll hear from you again soon. ✨🚀

—The Rock&Dash Team

Also, Wonderia is participating in this year’s Tokyo Game Show!

• Dates: Sept 25 (Thu) – Sept 28 (Sun

• Location: Makuhari Messe, HALL 02-N02

If you happen to be around, come visit our booth to try the game and grab some fun goodies!

And of course, don’t forget to add Wonderia to your wishlist — it really helps us a lot!

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