Indie games are getting more and more popular over the past few years. It is not simply because they follow the trend and are attractive for the moment. It’s because the publisher’s games sometimes don’t need to follow a pattern. So it inherits creative freedom and makes whatever the author likes. And most of the Indie games are based on thoughts and ideas, the author’s perspective on life and everything in life. And Wilderless is certainly no exception.
Calling it an empty world wouldn’t be so. The “emptiness” here that I want is quite easy to understand that when you enter the game you will understand immediately. Wilderless does not have any instructions when you enter the game. There is not any text, status, customization displayed on the screen. The most special thing is that there are no quests, puzzles, episodes, or compelling storylines. Wilderless has nothing in it, except a vast world and endless nature. The rest is nothing else.
Then what is the ultimate task that the game gives you? I think it’s nothing. This world is really empty for you. What would you do in such a world? Delete the game and assume it’s unfinished? I think maybe you’re misinterpreting the developer’s intentions. You think this world is really nothing. Well, it’s really empty. But in another sense, it has everything. Just be patient and find out behind this “emptiness”.
Wander in the Wilderless for a long enough time. You will realize that this game is not as “empty” as you think. It is the place for everything when it is in its most quiet and peaceful state. Sometimes it will be something to help us relieve stress, put aside all work, worries, and chaos in life. Sometimes it becomes a consolation, comfort for pain of loss and writhing. And with any way of thinking that the player can feel according to his current life and emotions. The game is like a solution, away, or simply a silence for you to let go and sink into it. Relax and feel everything.
In this endless game, you can be anything you want. From human forms, elves, to animals on land and water. Any creature you can turn into. And live their lives as they are. Run fast on the plains like a free horse. Swim everywhere in the vast ocean like a giant fish. Or flying in the blue sky like birds is so comfortable and gentle. Or simply a human. Live and feel everything like a real person. Really makes people take time to reflect on themselves. About the world and about this very reality.
Once you have become a part of Wilderless. You can do whatever you like in this world. Run and jump anywhere. From the forest to the flower field, from the high mountain to the valley. All-terrain is present in this game. Literally, you own everything here. So do all you can. Enjoy everything as a peaceful life. Do not face difficulties and worries. There is nothing stopping you in this world. You are the only one, and also the loneliest. Depends on your way of thinking.
The layers of meaning in Wilderless have really been shown asymptotically to perfection. As if a message to the players of the developer. You won’t be able to do anything, but you can do everything. Feel, enjoy and live the way you think is right. It’s all in a game that doesn’t have anything. And there is everything Wilderless mod.