Key facts
- Cheapest right now
- € Standard · Global · Driffle
- Live offers
- 16 offers · 10 stores
- Our pick
- Standard · Steam Key · Global · Kinguin — €
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Wanderburg went on sale yesterday and there is a decent chance you have never heard of it. Randwerk built it, Sidekick Publishing put it out, and it reached Steam without a marketing wave in front of it. Our page already carries 16 live offers from 10 stores, which for a game one day old is more attention than most small releases get in a month.
So, two questions. What is it, and what does it cost this morning?
A castle on wheels that eats villages
It is a medieval roguelike, minimalist in how it looks and in how much it explains. You do not command an army. You drive a fortress. The castle rolls, and what it rolls over are villages, which it swallows to grow. Every stronghold you crush leaves you bigger for the next one.
The building half is where the roguelike lives. You bolt on a modular arsenal of siege weapons and arcane machinery as the run goes, so the castle you finish with is not the castle you started with. Short sessions, a build decided on the move, then round again.
That is as far as the official description goes, and we are not going to invent the rest of it for you.
The cheapest and the third cheapest are shared accounts
Sorted by amount, Driffle opens at €5.09 with the code GOCDKEYS10 applied, down from €5.66. Third along is G2A at €6.84, no coupon. Neither of them sells you a copy. Both are shared Steam accounts: you are handed somebody else's login, the game stays in their library, and you play inside it.
Sitting between the two, in second place, is the first thing on the page that ends up in your own library. A Kinguin Standard code, global region, €6.48 with the coupon SEPGOC10, or €7.20 without it.
| What you are paying for | Cheapest | Store |
|---|---|---|
| Shared Steam account | €5.09 | Driffle |
| Standard code, global region | €6.48 | Kinguin |
| Official store | €9.74 | Steam |
| Steam Gift | €15.09 | Driffle |
A third under the official rate, one day in
Steam charges €9.74 today. GamersGate and Green Man Gaming charge exactly the same. That Kinguin code with SEPGOC10 lands €3.26 under all three, a cut of 33%, one day after release.
It is an odd thing to see this early. A game usually spends weeks glued to its official rate before the resale side pulls away from it, because the stock has to come from somewhere and on launch week there is not much of it about. Here the gap opened on day two.
The middle of the page fills in from there: Cdkeys Com at €7.09, GamesPlanet at €7.10 for the US region, G2A at €8.91 for Europe, Playerland at €8.99, another G2A Standard at €9.28. Worth knowing that GamesPlanet and Playerland are official stores, so those two are ordinary retail rather than resale.
Same page, same download, €33.59
Read the page from the other end and it looks like a different product. Driffle has a Steam Gift at €15.09 with GOCDKEYS10. G2A has a second gift at €16.99. Driffle also lists a plain Standard at €17.99, coupon already applied, which is nearly double what Valve wants for the identical download.
And then Difmark, at €33.59. That figure is what you get after the Gocdkeys code knocks 16% off €39.99. It is three and a half times the official rate, and it is a shared account, so it is not even a copy of the game.
Nobody designed that spread. On a resale page the amount follows whatever stock each seller happens to be holding, and on a launch week nothing is holding it in place. Checking what the publisher charges before you buy second-hand is not paranoia. It is arithmetic.
Very Positive, and only 356 people saying so
Steam has a verdict up already, which is fast: Very Positive, 292 positive out of 356. Take it for what it is. A sample that size, gathered in a single day, comes overwhelmingly from people who were waiting for the game and bought it in the first hours. It is a first impression, not a settled opinion, and it can move a long way once the ordinary buyer arrives.
We have no press score on file for it, so we are not going to hand you one.
We have no history to show you yet
This is normally where the monthly floors go. Not this time. Our page was created alongside the game, and we hold exactly two readings, both dated yesterday: Driffle at €19.99 and Difmark at €39.99. Two points from one day tell you nothing about where this ends up, so we are not going to pretend they do.
Which leaves today. If you want to play it this week, buy Wanderburg key at €6.48 with SEPGOC10 and it stays in your library. If you would rather see a curve first, give it a few weeks and there will be one.
I have been a gamer for as long as I can remember, and for the last 14 years I have been making life easier for other gamers. CEO and co-founder of Gocdkeys.
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