Wildkeepers Rising Preview: Taming, Slaying & Leveling Up – What You Need to Know!

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Author: Jim Smale

by Jim Smale · April 7, 2025

Wildkeepers Rising Preview dives into the early access world of roguelite monster-taming, blending bullet-heaven action with strategic RPG progression. As you collect, level up, and battle through hordes of relentless creatures, does Wildkeepers Rising deliver on its promise of an evolving, dynamic gameplay experience? This deep dive explores its mechanics, features, and whether it’s worth jumping into now.

Wildkeepers Rising Preview Pros:

Decent graphics.
1.56GB download size.
Steam achievements.
Full controller support.
Graphics settings – window mode, resolution, v-sync, frame limit, and quality preset.
Can remap the controls.
Manual attacks option.
Auto Battlers RPG gameplay.
Earn exp orbs from enemies, level up to pick one of four random upgrades.
All you do is move, and you can dodge roll. Attacks are automatic, as are any abilities you unlock.
Earn and equip abilities.
You can pause the game.
Devilishly addictive and fun.
New players can be in and having fun in under sixty seconds.
Two playable characters – Korin and Ophelia, with one being melee and one being ranged.
In-game cutscenes and character interactions.
Meet and recruit characters to your party; creatures can join you, and they will all act on their own. You can only add abilities to them and press a button to trigger their super attack.
All upgrade choices have a rarity rating that changes how big of a change it makes.
Get a pet that can provide support in healing or attacking.
Impressive on-screen enemy count.
The sound it makes when picking up exp orbs is very satisfying.
Treasure chests can be found, and they give buffs to the whole team. You pick one of three random buffs.
The game is split up into missions with markers for the objectives.
End of mission breakdown.
Sigils are the power-ups you assign to party members, and at the end of a mission, you can unlock new Sigils so they may appear.
A central village is where you buy upgrades, take on quests, missions, and the spirit realm.
Enemies can drop health, resources, and materials that act like currency.
Upgrades are where you can improve parts of your character, like move speed, revives, duration of spells, radius in which you can pick up orbs, etc.
Unlock sigil unlock points by finishing missions or levelling up characters to level 10.
The spirit realm is where you can interact with all your collected creatures.
Quests are the game’s own in-game achievements; except it’s a system with rewards, as you complete them, you fill in the icon on the list.
World map level select.
You can replay areas.
Before choosing a mission, you get a pop-up showing the mission details, rewards, any monster bonuses, and the game difficulty setting.
Four game difficulties to unlock – normal, hard, ridiculous, and ludicrous.
Imagine being able to play Diablo, but all you have to do is move and press your abilities, no more mashing buttons for basic attacks, straightforward level-up choices, and the easiest inventory management. Lovely.

Wildkeepers Rising Preview Cons:

Bare minimum graphic options.
The red flashing on the screen for damage is way too intrusive and makes you think you are on death’s door, but it was actually a scratch.
It’s very uneventful and anti-climactic after finishing a mission and going back to town.
The screen is very chaotic, and it’s hard to make out drops, health bars, and specials; it’s just very busy.
I lost hours to the game, but I found I didn’t want to do too much and wait for more updates.
No customisation choices like clothing, names, etc.
It takes a while to get a load of Sigils unlocked so you can have good loadouts.
I felt like a lot of missions ended up feeling the same, like my abilities, the creatures I catch, and so on.
Health can be hard to come by.
Getting abilities to attack is a pain, as they could be facing the wrong way, or you have to take a load of damage before the attack hits.
At times, I couldn’t get to all the menu options with a controller.

Wildkeepers Rising:

Official website.

Developer: Lioncode Games

Publisher: Lioncode Games

Store Links –

Steam Early Access