No Bard Feelings

Dance like nobody’s watching in WANDERSONG

- Phil Savage

If you press ‘alt’ at any time while playing Wandersong, you’ll do a little dance. As you travel across the world, you’ll repeatedly run into a character who teaches you new dances – new ways to rhythmically gyrate. There is no reason for this. At no point are you required to dance. But you will – and I did – because in Wandersong you’re encouraged to just… go for it. To express yourself and have fun interacting with the world and with your character.

Wandersong is charming from the off. I was walking to-and-from the main village of the first act, and, without really needing to – without there being a puzzle to solve or character to impress – I started singing. Wandersong is a game about singing. Move the mouse (or the control pad’s right analogue stick) in one of eight directions and you’ll sing a different note. Throughout the game, you will use this central interaction in many enjoyable and surprising ways.

You’ll also use it because it’s there. And because it’s fun to fill the space in which you’re travelling with music and dance. Because the cheerful soundtrack begs to be filled in with your transient musical doodling. Because Wandersong is delightful and let’s you embody a cheerful doofus who can’t help but sing.