Wanderstop Brews Up a New Trailer at Annapurna Showcase 2025
Wanderstop, the highly anticipated cozy game from Ivy Road, steeped its way into the spotlight at the Annapurna Interactive Showcase 2025, leaving fans positively buzzing - and not just from the caffeine. This narrative-driven game about tea and change will brew a storm on March 11, 2025, for Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, and PC via Steam.
The showcase spilled the tea on a fresh perspective of Wanderstop's peaceful shop setting, introducing players to the game's charming atmosphere and unique gameplay mechanics. The new trailer highlighted the adorable pluffins, furry little creatures so eager to sample Alta's latest concoctions that you'd think they were auditioning for a caffeine commercial.
Game Overview
Wanderstop puts players in the shoes (or should we say, tea cozy?) of Alta, a former undefeated fighter who finds herself managing a tea shop in a magical forest after tasting the bitter flavour of defeat. It's like Rocky if Rocky opened a café instead of drinking raw eggs.
Key Features:
- Tea Brewing: Players will collect ingredients, fiddle with a complex tea-making contraption that would make Rube Goldberg proud, and create the perfect brew for their customers.
- Farming System: A hex grid-based planting system allows players to grow and harvest ingredients. It's like Farmville but with more purpose and fewer Facebook notifications.
- Character Interactions: The game features unique characters with multi-step quests and intriguing backstories. Expect fewer quests and more "fetch me that perfectly steeped oolong" quests.
Wanderstop is the debut title from Ivy Road, a studio founded by industry veterans who decided that making people question reality (The Stanley Parable) or feel nostalgic (Minecraft) wasn't enough - now they want to make us all tea connoisseurs too.
Can't wait to get your hands on a steaming cup of Wanderstop? A demo is available now on Steam as part of Steam Next Fest. It's your chance to sample the game's cozy atmosphere and innovative gameplay before it's officially served.
As the gaming community eagerly awaits the release of Wanderstop, the Annapurna Interactive Showcase 2025 has certainly succeeded in brewing even more excitement for this unique and reflective tea shop narrative. Remember, when you finally get to play, don't spill the tea - literally or figuratively, and stay tuned for our review!
About Wanderstop
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.
Grow and harvest the ingredients needed for tea, and then mix them together in an unusual tea-making contraption. Along the way, speak with the many travelers who pass through the shop, learn their stories and make tea that’s just right for them.
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 shopkeeper?! With everything she’s capable of?? No no no, she won’t, she won’t do it... she can’t…