The time for scurrying in the shadows is over; a new age of rodent ingenuity has begun!
The ambitious cozyvival city-builder Whiskerwood has burrowed its way into Game Preview, launching on the Xbox Store, as well as Steam.
The game is also available from day one to play via PC Game Pass and Game Pass Ultimate. Just note, this is a PC drop, and is not playable on Xbox Series X|S.
This is a Game Preview release, meaning this is your chance to jump in early, help shape the development, and build your own sky-piercing mousetropolis while its feline overlords watch on.
Tame the Whiskerwood
Whiskerwood tasks you with establishing a new colony on a perilous journey. As the dominion of cats spreads across the seas, the common mouse is sent forth to tame the untamed lands. You arrive on an untouched island rich in resources, and you must quickly establish a thriving city to meet the immediate and ever-growing demands of your feline masters.
This is a game of incredible scale, where you must manage complex production chains, intricate automation systems, and the very needs of your citizens, all while trying to balance the happiness of your mice with the oppressive demands of the cats.
A New Standard for Vertical City-Building
What sets Whiskerwood apart is its ambitious focus on verticality and deep, complex simulation.
Space is limited on your new island home. To succeed, you must embrace rodent rigor and build upwards to pierce the skies, or dig deep underground into the cliffsides and mountains. Verticality is key to everything, bringing with it both great opportunities and unique challenges.
This is a game of complex simulations where you must bend nature to your will. You can shape the land through terraforming, creating massive burrows for housing or drawing water inland to power your industry. You’ll also need to battle the elements, as a sudden cold front can ruin your harvest and endanger your mice. This requires you to build intricate networks of pipes to heat water and run steam-powered climate control systems.
The Life of a Mouse
Your mousefolk are not just mindless drones; they are individuals with their own needs and attributes.
Your citizens seek a fulfilling life. You must provide them with ample food, water, and shelter, all while managing a complex economy of 40 different commodities. But once their basic needs are met, you face a choice: will you construct grand statues of your fearsome feline overlords to motivate your mice at the cost of their morale? Or will you scurry down the road of resistance, prioritising the happiness of your mice with grand parks and fountains?
The industrious mouse is a clever one. You can harness the power of automation to sniff out new efficiencies. You’ll build intricate mazes of conveyor belts, ramps, elevators, and slides to move goods faster than any paw could carry them, eventually evolving your humble, mouse-powered colony into a steam-powered mousetropolis.
A Game of Cat and Mouse
The demands of the cat overlords grow more unreasonable by the day, and they care not for the suffering of your citizens. The shipments must be fulfilled, lest they send their henchmen to violently remind you of your duties. This sets the stage for the ultimate question: Will you forever serve this oppressive paw? Or will you eventually raise your whiskers in defiance?
The first chapter in this grand tale of rodent survival and ingenuity is ready to be written. With its deep focus on verticality, complex automation, and a compelling narrative choice at its core, Whiskerwood is poised to be a massive new hit in the city-building genre.
Your journey as a pioneer begins today. Head to Steam or the Xbox Store.
