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2012 · Ankama Games · Adventure · Indie

Wakfu

Immerse yourself in the WAKFU universe with this free to play MMORPG. Select your class, travel the world, meet adventurers to challenge powerful monsters in epic turn-based battles.

Released: 29 February 2012
Platforms: Java virtual machine Linux Windows macOS
Genres: Adventure Indie MMORPG Role-playing Strategy Tactical Turn-based strategy Turn-based tactics
Developers: Ankama Games
Publishers: Anuman Ankama Games Eidos Interactive
Series: Wakfu
Modes: Co-op Multiplayer
Perspective: Bird view / Isometric
Themes: Action Fantasy
Engine: Java
Country: France
Languages: English, French, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish (Spain)
Time to beat: 10hmain story11hcompletionist
Composers: Guillaume Pladys

About

Wakfu is a tactical turn-based MMORPG developed by Ankama Games and released for Microsoft Windows, macOS, and Linux on 29 February 2012. The game takes place 1,000 years after Ankama's previous game, Dofus.

A spin-off game, Islands of Wakfu, was released on Xbox Live Arcade on 30 March 2011. An animated television series based on the game began airing while Wakfu was in development in France from 30 October 2008, marking twelve years later after the game. The series has also spawned various comics, a trading card game and a board game.

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Gameplay

Wakfu features a turn-based combat system similar to Dofus, it also contains elements inspired by tactical RPG. Players walk around with the screen scrolling while they move, as opposed to Dofus where the camera is static and characters move to a new area by walking to the edge of the current screen. Some parts of the game are player-managed: Governmental affairs such as organising militias or elections for positions like governor are performed by players themselves. Another similar addition is environmental management by players.

Players can maintain resource levels by planting seeds as they harvest crops and hunt wildlife or simply take what they want, decreasing availability for other players, If players manage to maintain this they will earn various Nation bonuses. Since 2014 a new feature came to the World of Twelve, The Riktus Clan. The Riktus Clan nation was meant to be a criminal Nation, getting Nation bonuses by destroying the ecosystems of other nations. There are 18 classes, each one featuring 25 abilities (and 3 abilities which can be obtained by doing a quest).

Story

In the time of Dofus, twelve years before the animated series, an ogre named Ogrest managed to get all six Dofus eggs for the sake of someone he loved. However, she was interested only in the eggs, and Ogrest killed her in a fit of rage. Later realizing what he'd done, he climbed atop Mount Zinit and cried for 1,000 years. This brings us to the time of WAKFU. Now the "goal" is to defeat Ogrest, but, like in Dofus, this is not necessary.

The timeline has moved thus far that the Ogrest is no longer the main villain of the story. It appears that it was not the Ogrest who caused this world to flood, but the Eliotrope OROPO. In the battle between Ogrest versus Yugo (who only appears in the animated series), Yugo gained control over the six Eliatrope Dofus and created alternate versions of himself, and then sent them back into the past. This also explains the appearance of the Eliotrope class in the game.

Development

Ankama Games began development in 2006. In October 2011, Eurogamer revealed the game to launch in February 2012. Square Enix published the game in North America until 15 January 2013, when Ankama assumed the role.