Shueisha Games Announces Open-World Survival RPG Wild Wild Eden
Wild Wild Eden represents Shueisha Games' first major internally published open-world title, shifting from its usual role as a manga publisher into the competitive survival-craft genre with a focus on monster bonding over utility.
Key Facts
- Shueisha Games and Magnus Games Studio announced Wild Wild Eden, an open-world survival craft RPG with anime-style visuals, for early access on Steam in spring 2027.
- The game was previously known under the working title PROJECT SURVIVAL, first shown at BitSummit in July 2023, and later overhauled with a new development engine and updated visuals and content.
- The story follows survivors of a destroyed home planet who seek a new home on Eden, only to uncover dark secrets about their past.
Reporting from 5 sources: Anime News Network, 4Gamer.net, GAME Watch (Impress), Denfaminicogamer, and 1 more.
Shueisha Games and developer Magnus Games Studio have announced Wild Wild Eden, an open-world survival craft RPG with anime-style visuals. The game is set on an uncharted planet where players tame monsters, build bases, and unravel the world's secrets. Early access on Steam is planned for spring 2027. The game was previously known under the working title PROJECT SURVIVAL, first shown at BitSummit in July 2023. Since then, the development engine was changed and the visuals and content were overhauled. Players can gather materials, craft tools, and construct bases anywhere in the world, including atop waterfalls or inside volcanoes. Monsters are tamed using traps and Dream Bottles, then can be ridden, fight alongside the player, or assist with base tasks like farming. A breeding system allows crossbreeding same-species monsters to pass down traits and abilities, with rare color variants possible. The game supports solo play and online multiplayer. The story follows survivors of a destroyed home planet who seek a new home on Eden, only to uncover dark secrets about their past.
Magnus Games Studio is a Kuala Lumpur-based studio founded in 2017 with about 40 creators. It won the "SEA Best Rising Star Award" at LEVEL UP KL 2017. The studio has focused on monster-raising games since its founding, drawing inspiration from the founders' own dogs and reptiles.
Shueisha Games producer Masakazu Kobayashi said changing the development engine was "a huge decision" after the 2023 BitSummit reveal, and he was "amazed by the power of DC and Welson of Magnus Games Studio and the development team for executing it and delivering such a high-quality game." Assistant producer Raycley Zhang said the team struggled with what makes the game unique among many survival games, and settled on "love for monsters" and treating them as "true family, not just convenient tools."
The game supports Japanese, English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, and Korean at launch. The Steam page is live with wishlist registration open. The official website is at shueisha-games.com/games/wildwildeden.
Monsters have individual personalities and display behaviors like snuggling with each other, acting spoiled with the player, and taking naps. Water Slimes can till soil and automatically water crops as farming partners. The breeding system allows players to repeatedly lay eggs and hatch them to pursue ideal stats, with rare color variants possible as a result.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 5 cited sources below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.
Sources
- Anime News Network News Shueisha Games Announces Wild Wild Eden Open-World Survival Crafting RPG for Steam
- 4Gamer.net オープンワールド・サバイバルクラフトRPG「Wild Wild Eden」，早期アクセス版を2027年春にSteamでリリース
- GAME Watch (Impress) 集英社ゲームズがオープンワールド・サバイバルクラフトRPG「Wild Wild Eden」を発表
- Denfaminicogamer 集英社ゲームズの新作アニメ調オープンワールドRPG『Wild Wild Eden』が発表。不思議なモンスターたちを手なずけ、絆を深めながら美しい惑星の謎を解き明かす
- Game Spark オープンワールド・サバイバルクラフトRPG『ワイルド ワイルド エデン』ワクワクできる映像公開！モンスターを眠らせ仲間に