Wild Season
Wild Season (also called Wild Season: Episode 1) is a controversial 2015 2D farming simulation RPG developed and published by Filipino developer Quickfire Games for the PC platform. It was released to the Steam platform's Early Access program on December 8, 2015. It is a clone of the Japanese video game series Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons, but with more emphasis on the game's story. Despite being advertised as "Episode 1", the game has no follow-up.
The game is the first Filipino video game to be successfully crowdfunded on Kickstarter. However, it is marred with multiple gameplay and technical problems and was abandoned by the game's developer in 2016 after a controversial decision to change it into an episodic release. It is one of the worst-reviewed Filipino games to be released on the Steam platform.
About
Wild Seasons is one of the earliest games that attempted to bring a clone of Harvest Moon to the PC platform, as the farming sim genre had not yet grown in popularity with the 2016 release of Stardew Valley.
Kickstarter
Quickfire Games held a Kickstarter for the game from November 28 until December 28, 2013. The game had a funding goal of £22,500 and managed to reach £26,759 from 1,545. It originally did not reach the required funding on the final days, but an unknown backer eventually boosted it over the goal.
It is the first Filipino game to be successfully crowdfunded.
Becoming episodic
On November 23, 2015, Quickfire Games announced that Wild Season would instead have an episodic release schedule and the game will be divided into four episodes. The price of the game was lowered from US$29.99 to US$16.99, and each succeeding episode would cost $4.99. Kickstarter backers and existing customers who had already purchased the game would eventually receive all episodes for free.
The game would eventually be abandoned, leaving the game unfinished at Episode 1. This resulted in multiple players leaving negative reviews on Steam. As of December 31, 2024, the game holds an "Overwhelmingly Negative" review score on Steam.
OUYA
Wild Season was originally planned to be released on the OUYA Android microconsole. The game participated and was approved in OUYA's Free the Games Fund program. It is currently not known if the program helped in the Kickstarter, or if the developers acquired any funding at all.
Technical details
The game was developed using the Unity game engine.
