Wantless : Solace at World’s End
Released May 2024
In this dystopic sci-fi Tactical RPG, save your patients from themselves. Craft your skills among millions of combinations, heal the mind and face ever growing nightmares in 10mn runs. Will you overcome the insidious being chasing you across minds?
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Done
All announced content has been released
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Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
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Evaluation
Wantless: Solace at World's End launched into full 1.0 release on May 16, 2024, graduating from Early Access. The developer (Drop Rate Studio) was candid in both the pre-launch announcement (April 17, 2024) and the launch post (May 16, 2024) about post-launch content plans: they stated they had "a ton of ideas" but that additional content updates would depend on how the game performed at launch. This is a conditional, not a commitment — no specific future content was announced or promised.
Following the 1.0 launch, the studio released a series of bug-fix and quality-of-life patches through June 2024 (the last developer communication in the news feed is from June 20, 2024), but no major new content updates were shipped after launch. The two major content milestones in the record are the "Song of Silence" endgame update (January 22, 2024, during Early Access) and the 1.0 launch itself (May 16, 2024).
On February 17, 2026, the studio announced an entirely new game — "Dive or Die: Children of Rain" — explicitly noting that "this second game would simply not have happened without you," crediting Wantless's success as the catalyst. This strongly signals that Drop Rate Studio has moved on from Wantless as their primary development focus. There are no unreleased DLC listings, no roadmap for additional Wantless content, and no developer statements since June 2024 suggesting further updates to the game.
Given that the game launched as a complete narrative experience, post-launch support tapered to maintenance patches, the studio has publicly pivoted to a new title, and no future content has been announced, Wantless is best understood as a finished game as of its May 16, 2024 release date.
Evidence
Drop Rate Studio announced a brand-new game, Dive or Die: Children of Rain, crediting Wantless's success as what made it possible. No mention of any further Wantless content.
Wantless 1.0 launched, completing the main storyline and concluding the Early Access phase. Developer stated post-launch content additions would depend on how the game performs.
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Developer
Publisher
Twin Sails Interactive
Achievements
38
Platform
Windows
Controller
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Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player
About this game
Heal your patients' mind?
In Wantless, you play as Eiris, one of the last remaining Transposers - doctors who can delve into their patients' tortured minds to alleviate their torments, erase memories, or even more...
Confront horrors made manifest, woes and sinister thoughts in this fast-paced and challenging Tactical RPG. Forge your skills, shape your build and engage in ruthless combat as you sail through the ghost metropolis and explore your patients' stories in a series of runs.
You start your turn with 8 Action points but spending one grants it to each enemy. The more you act, the more your opponents will react! Thankfully, eliminating your foes also grants you action points, allowing for potentially devastating turns for you…or against you.
You will learn to fear what lurks inside the mind. These vicious manifestations pack an impressive array of ways to kill you. To even the odds you will have to thoughtfully use your environment. From carefully placed explosives to pools of toxic poison, the terrain plays a crucial role in this unforgiving tactical combat.
In Wantless, the fight does not take place on a battlefield, but within the subconscious of your patients. Proceed with caution, safeguard key memories and avoid instability at all costs. Failing to do so will empower the creatures or even modify the whole map.
Use the synapses you've collected during your runs to craft your skills, experimenting with effects, shapes, costs and cooldowns! Combine damage, ailments, buffs, environmental effects, utility and more to create impressive combos. With 100+ synapses available, create a truly personalized build.
Shape Eiris further by navigating the intricate Mind Tree, with more than 170 perks to choose from. However, be mindful of your choices, as the more powerful the nodes, the greater the drawbacks.
Most patients and their traits are randomly generated, leading to endless possibilities. As you progress you may encounter special unique patients, with their distinct story, twists and enemies, pushing your builds to the limit.
In Wantless, you play as Eiris, one of the last remaining Transposers - doctors who can delve into their patients' tortured minds to alleviate their torments, erase memories, or even more...
Confront horrors made manifest, woes and sinister thoughts in this fast-paced and challenging Tactical RPG. Forge your skills, shape your build and engage in ruthless combat as you sail through the ghost metropolis and explore your patients' stories in a series of runs.
You start your turn with 8 Action points but spending one grants it to each enemy. The more you act, the more your opponents will react! Thankfully, eliminating your foes also grants you action points, allowing for potentially devastating turns for you…or against you.
You will learn to fear what lurks inside the mind. These vicious manifestations pack an impressive array of ways to kill you. To even the odds you will have to thoughtfully use your environment. From carefully placed explosives to pools of toxic poison, the terrain plays a crucial role in this unforgiving tactical combat.
In Wantless, the fight does not take place on a battlefield, but within the subconscious of your patients. Proceed with caution, safeguard key memories and avoid instability at all costs. Failing to do so will empower the creatures or even modify the whole map.
Use the synapses you've collected during your runs to craft your skills, experimenting with effects, shapes, costs and cooldowns! Combine damage, ailments, buffs, environmental effects, utility and more to create impressive combos. With 100+ synapses available, create a truly personalized build.
Shape Eiris further by navigating the intricate Mind Tree, with more than 170 perks to choose from. However, be mindful of your choices, as the more powerful the nodes, the greater the drawbacks.
Most patients and their traits are randomly generated, leading to endless possibilities. As you progress you may encounter special unique patients, with their distinct story, twists and enemies, pushing your builds to the limit.
Are these done yet?
Last evaluated Jun 22, 2026
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