About the Game

an enchanting RPG life sim. Fleeing a continent swept with war your arrival in a new land provides a fresh start. Experience an immersive medieval fantasy world sandbox that allows you to choose who you want to be.


Manage your own homestead, build a farm, plant and harvest crops, rear animals, and upgrade your facilities to craft items and gear. Build a peaceful life for your family and trade your goods from town to town.

Mirthwood features a rich, fully realized world, with gorgeous hand-drawn graphics, immersive sound effects, and an original musical score. Explore an open world comprised of six diverse regions and three distinct towns, with much to discover - and uncover. Battle Storms, Winter, & Disease with survival-lite elements as you progress through a bewitching world.

Take up a sword or ready your bow in real-time combat, Mirthwood will pit you against a variety of enemies from Bandits to werewolves. Equip yourself with a collection of weapons, armor, and clothing. Level and specialize your character in your chosen combat class to improve your ability to survive the dangers of Bleakwood.

Mirthwood’s ecosystem makes organic stories possible. Face new situations and conditions generated by the living world. Embark on quests, encounter dynamic events across the world and investigate mysteries. Search for Rare & Epic Loot across the world and find new adventures along the way.

Meet and befriend (or insult) townsfolk and NPCs across Mirthwood with a new Sims-style interaction system. Establish & Grow a Relationship with any NPC, unlock new social Interactions as your relationships grow, and even uncover quests and tasks. The other denizens of the Free Lands each have their own lives to lead and will go about their days and nights in a fully simulated world.

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Steam Patch Notes
Official update history
- Fix enemies that had been stuck or otherwise got too far from their spawn point
- Prevent farm animals from walking into the player's house or out of the farm area
- Fix cases of animals getting stuck when something blocked their path
- Fix the Shaggy Horse not being able to equip caparisons
- Fix a rare case where Home Sweet Home quest could get stuck
- Fix an issue where interact prompts could display a wrong action, usually “Nap”
- Prevent saves from the steam multiplayer-beta branch from being loaded on the steam default branch, because some quest progress could be temporarily lost
If you already played on multiplayer-beta and switched back to default, please stay on the default steam branch for now. An automatic repair fix for any affected saves is coming soon. Your progress is still safe in the automatic backups as well.
- Make early tools crate appear earlier so players that don't talk to Kimberly or buy seeds can still find the tools
- Fix funerals not always saving/loading correctly
- Fix some generated quests text reloading incorrectly
- Fix some generated quest enemies being reloaded underground
- Fix NPCs able to interact & partially give quests during Bandit Raid events
- Fix watering can sometimes leaving puddle indicator behind
- Fix jousting mini-game complete sometimes leaving the player on a black screen
- Fix jousting able to get removed while playing it when the timer ended
- Fix fishing sometimes giving nothing after a successful catch
- Remove weapons from back of player when they are unequipped
- Fix event cards able to pop up during other UI and get the player stuck
- Fix pets able to drift away from the farm
- Improve context menus showing/hiding incorrectly
- Fix Fine Hardwood Gate posts using stone
- Fix an issue with NPCs getting stuck as chat target
- Fix skins when equipping a helmet in the vanity slot over a full face cover helmet
- Prevent some other quest NPCs from dying
- Fix issue with Celestial Stag
- Fix animal relationship menu bug
- Update localization for some Jousting text
- Fix Jousting calendar localization
- Fix Shelter Management UI header text issue
- Update French localization from user CdriX
- Fix horses disappearing if the player leaves the area
- Fix some issues that could keep the loading screen stuck on
- Several changes and updates to improve performance of loading new areas
- Let player 2 spend feathers to increase their inventory/skill slots
- Minor visual fixes
- Updated Unity Editor version so all future patches have the fix for a potential Unity exploit
- Improved scaling/readability for more UI menus, controller glyph/prompts
- Improved Character Creation text/sizing/localization, profession card controller navigation issues
- Change Sleep interact option to start from 2nd interact button (F) to avoid accidental sleeps
- Fix Crafting menu not properly clearing item card / requirements when a category had no options unlocked
- Fix dialogue option selection issue for controllers (wrong/previous selection used)
- Fix UI move input repeating too quickly only on controllers and too slow on keyboard
- Fix upper floor image sometimes not loading
- Fix for enemies getting stuck underground
- Fix for some items like Small Stone Fountain unable to be placed
- Fix issue of game/control pause when picking up previously discovered clues/notes
- Fix for issues linking old/changed quests possibly causing crashes (Humble Beginnings)
- Update localization (feather vendor, copper toolkit)
- Fix input state issue when changing from tutorial to main world
- Fix Forest Shrine resetting (any lost items will come back now)
- Fix issue with horse & some seeds missing from seed vendor
- Fix issue with horse names
- Add new interactable highlight on trees, rocks, herbs, loot & pickups
- Add new step to "Humble Beginnings" quest, "Craft a Hoe at the Anvil" for better clarity
- Add new visual indicator when player is hidden behind terrain
- "Steal" interact text is red to help make it more obvious
- Improve some text sizing and scaling to make various text more readable
- Slightly improve chat and combat voice sounds for female characters
- New default settings automatically applied for Steam Deck (improved performance & battery)
- Fix an issue with animals maturing faster than intended, and growing larger but not changing to the adult visuals
- Fix various causes of interaction issues for NPCs such as using upgraded tools or picking up eggs (particularly spouse/children or hired farmhands)
- Fix some doorways/ramps that blocked NPC movement
- Let NPCs go through gates
- Terrain streaming and loading improvements
- Terrain texture compression for lower VRAM, RAM, and install size
- Fix some minor collision issues
- Improve terrain collider updating (should fix more cases of running into "invisible walls")
- Fix cases of building interiors in Brightoak getting hidden when they should still be visible
- Fix NPCs getting stuck inside fenced areas
- Fix NPCs not unequipping tools
- Fix cases of context/interact menu hiding until moving to a different interactable object
- Fix some spouse/children movement issues, prevent children from wandering into town
- Add Quit button to Pause Menu for easier quit to desktop
- Always show item amount removed/added to clarify vs. total remaining
- Fix minimap quest marker not showing until changing active quest
- Minor UI fixes for Fishing Minigame and Player2 Relationship
- Fix some text not using localization
- Fix some missing localizations
*p2 Hotfix patch to fix a terrain loading optimization issue in some caves and mines.
1.0.66
- Added new celebratory Trophy Stand item to traveling merchant (for Best Indie Games Summer Showcase 2025 inclusion)
- Minor backend changes for future content
- Don't show relationship menu over active dialogue
- Make hide helmet toggle persistent/save
- Fix helmet toggle getting reset when equipping a new helmet
- Close Skills overlay when switching tabs
- Fix issue with passing out on horse
- Improve deer/rabbit flee action (run more and pick new direction instead of getting stuck at walls)
- Fix issue with restarting the wedding quest
- Wedding fixes: spouse hands out after ceremony, remained in wedding garment until reload
- Change auto-save interval 5 to 10 minutes
- Fix goats sometimes playing a wrong sfx
- Fix for archer enemy trying to aim while dying/dead
- Fix Chat menu hiding able to prevent player movement
- Fix declining generated quests not removing the dialogue
- Fix generated quests conditions able to not load correctly
- Fix farmhand and spouse relocation (could get stuck under map)
- Fix for already stuck NPCs
- Fix selection & icon issues in the Journal menu
- Fix chat not properly affecting marriage/happiness
- Fix issues with cancelling wedding ceremony, Added camera pan to ceremony start
- Fix propose/divorce from Social menu not properly closing all UI
- Fix issue with Relationship menu staying up over other menus
- Prevent calling horse from other floors
- Fix animals not eating Hay from troughs, and now prioritize troughs
- Fix skill card list not scrolling to show selected cards (controller/arrow keys)
- Fix Wine Rack visuals
- Fix Red Hood skin visuals
1.0.63p6
- Fix issue with loot sometimes not being interactable
- Fix Bee House not saving production
- Fix Trea, Cedric, and Isolda not saving relationship
- Fix possible wrong name display in radial menu
- Fix issue with quest markers for combat generated quests
- Reduce time NPCs spend chatting
- Show "Missing Lover's Ring" message when using Propose button from Relationship menu without ring
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Uploaded Jul 22, 2026
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