The comedy writing and characterization going on here is really tremendous. Every line of dialog is a delight in and of itself, and the degree to which characters interact with one another based on who’s in your party is incredible for a game with such a small team. The amount of writing this must have taken, for stuff that’s mostly not going to be seen on a single playthrough! It’s an admirable dedication to making the world feel alive and reactive.

The single glaring flaw with this game (other than its Apple Arcade exclusivity, which, needs must) is that it’s undeniably incomplete. The website which described it as “episodic” is now down. I can only cross my fingers and hope that neither COVID nor poor numbers doomed Guildlings to be forever a single act bereft of elaboration.