Wanderburg beginner guide: your first run

Start here: treat your first run as a short experiment. Learn how the castle moves before trying to reproduce someone else’s endgame setup.

The first run

Wanderburg is a single-player roguelike about driving and expanding a fortress. The official game description centres the loop on consuming smaller targets, growing your castle and fighting stronger strongholds. Modules, vehicles, artifacts and captains open up choices between runs.

Give yourself one modest objective for the first attempt: identify which action keeps you safe, which action deals useful damage, and what stopped you. A run that reveals a repeatable mistake is useful even when it ends early.

Make one clear decision

When several upgrades appear, write down the problem you are trying to solve before picking. “I lose control when surrounded” is more useful than “I need a stronger build”. It keeps you from comparing options that solve entirely different problems.

Use this simple review:

• Can I keep moving while my current weapons work?
• Is the problem a tough target, many small threats, or taking unnecessary damage?
• Does the new option improve an action I already use?
• What am I giving up by choosing it?

These are planning suggestions, not a tested upgrade order. Use the descriptions in your current game as the starting point.

After a run

Record the captain, the modules you actually equipped, the map or difficulty, and the point where the run changed. On the next attempt, change one important choice. If you change everything at once, you will not know what helped.

The build notebook keeps these notes on your device. For version changes that could affect a comparison, check the upgrade guide before copying an older loadout.