Wyvern is a real-time, top-down 2D, graphical, massively multiplayer RPG. The game has thousands of maps and playable areas, hundreds of skills, spells and monsters, and all the features you would expect from a big fun RPG: Guilds, crafting, level editing, community features and more!
Wyvern is an Indie, old-school graphical MMO-RPG, inspired by games like Gauntlet, Nethack, and Ultima IV. Wyvern is a huge and diverse world: the game has been around 20+ years and is in continuous development. We are excited to bring the game to Steam, with new features and content.
Gameplay
The game features a top-down, tiled-based 2D view, with real-time combat and adventuring.
An important part of the gameplay is the text output area, on the right. The game tells you in text what's happening, and you can also see chat messages and other information there. The game window also includes views of your spells, your inventory, your stats, custom views for other situations.
Wyvern is a command-oriented game: There are hundreds of commands you can type: social commands and emotes, appraising and crafting, inventory management and more. You can bind commands to hotkeys using your entire keyboard. You can even create custom commands using aliases and macros to speed up your gameplay. The command system gives Wyvern unprecedented depth, power, and flexibility.
Features
Some of Wyvern's rich, exciting features include:
17 unique player races, from humans and elves, to fighting cats, giants, vampires and more
Over 50 quests, many of them quite elaborate, with their own unique and powerful rewards
A Builder Mode (level editor) that anyone can use to create their own areas
A Guild system that allows you to further specialize and fine-tune your character's abilities
Over 100 unique spells that can be learned, or used from wands, rods and magic items
Hundreds of playable areas, from cities and towns, to crypts, dungeons, ruins, underwater realms, and much more
Over 500 monsters that can wield weapons, cast spells, fire missiles, use wands, etc. And your summoned creatures can do all that too!
A popular Random Dungeon system that provides endless levels of monsters and loot
Player groups, support roles, and adventuring facilities
Raid bosses, Live Quests, and other endgame events
Custom images: At 25th level, you can upload your own avatars to fully personalize your character
A well-established and friendly community of helpful old-timer players
It's hard to do justice to the size and scope of Wyvern until you've played it yourself.
Physics
Even though Wyvern is a 2D tile-based game, it still supports a rich set of physical properties, including:
A rich lighting model and a day/night cycle
Missiles, projectiles, throwables, and area-of-effect spells
Pushable objects, levers and gates, vehicles, mechanical traps, and other active objects
Over a dozen damage types with resistances, immunities, and vulnerabilities
A built-in side-scroller engine with gravity, friction and other effects, for certain quests and areas
A sophisticated camera system that allows scrying, wizard-eye, detect-monsters and much more
A realistic body-parts system - e.g., a hydra (naga) player can wear five helmets and five amulets
Audio effects and background music
The game engine has thousands of different objects to support the game, the economy, quests, missions, guilds, and other features you would expect from a fun MMO.
Cross-Platform and Cross-Play
Wyvern for Steam currently supports Windows. You can also play on Mac and Linux, but you must download those clients from the Ghost Track website. We expect to support Linux and Mac on Steam in the near future. The Mac and Linux versions support cross-play with the Windows version.
Wyvern also runs on Android and iOS, on both phones and tablets. All the supported platforms (Steam/Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS) share the same backend servers. You can hop off your Steam client and onto your mobile client, or vice-versa, without even leaving the game. Your account will work across all devices, including new clients we add in the future.
When you play Wyvern from Steam, you can log straight into the game and start creating characters and playing. If you want to play your characters on mobile as well, then you can link a Gmail account to your Steam account, and they will act like a single account. You use the Gmail account for logging into non-Steam Wyvern clients. On iOS we also support Sign in with Apple and Log in with Facebook, but these do not support account linking.
Free to Play
Wyvern prides itself in NOT being a pay-to-win (p2w) game. The game runs on Cloud servers, which costs us money. We have opted for a free-to-play model, where, if you like, you can purchase Wyvern Crowns as the in-game currency. Many players do this simply to show their support of the game they love so much.
But we also offer perks and conveniences if you buy Crowns. Here are some examples:
You can get early access to a custom image for your character.
You can convert Crowns to gold (based on your experience level) if you find yourself in a cash crunch.
