WYRMHALL: Brush and Banter Review

What an adorable game in a strange world with colorful characters! It was a joy to meet all the different characters while cleaning their artifacts. The game has missable achievements and multiple endings. Completion takes around 5 hours.

Approximate amount of time to 100%: Around 5 hours
Estimated achievement difficulty: 2/10
Minimum number of playthroughs needed: at least 2,5 times, but later playthroughs go faster as you can click faster through the dialog parts you already know.
Is there a good guide available: I wrote this guide
Multiplayer achievements: No
Missable achievements: Yes
Grinding Achievements: No
DLC-Only achievements: No
Speedrun achievements: No
Time-gated achievements: No
RNG-achievements: No
Does difficulty affect achievements: No difficulty setting
Unobtainable/glitched achievements: No

I watched NAC Games play the demo of WYRMHALL: Brush and Banter and enjoyed it so much. I find it so clever how the developers used the theme of the game and the magic world in which this all takes place to show little parts of the story while still staying within the theme. The demo promised a great storytelling game with unique characters and a lot of humor.

And here it is—the full game! And it didn’t disappoint at all. It is awesome! It has such wonderful characters and so much humor, and it also feels fulfilling cleaning all those bizarre and weird items. I’m also impressed by the effects of some of those items. They are not static objectives—some are, but a lot have crazy effects if you play around with them.

The world of Wyrmhall isn’t one I want to live in, but oh boy, I wouldn’t have wanted to miss this unique story. During the game, you have to make multiple choices to determine the outcome later on, as well as make choices if you want to clean the item the customer gave you and if you do, how well will you clean it? That also has an impact on the story. Most of the time, I went to fully clean an item as I loved the shiny effect you get when doing so.

The only thing I would love to see is button prompts for switching between the different tools. This can be 1,2, 3, etc but also q,w,e, etc. However, I can see how one certain character on day 7 would not make this work. (I’ll not go into details because that would spoil certain things).

For all the achievements, you have to play multiple times through the game, and some are missable because you need to do a specific thing in the story or the opposite and avoid a certain event. However, the game is short, and future playthroughs go quicker as you know the mechanics and maybe even decide not to clean items that well, if at all. Unlocking all the achievements in WYRMHALL: Brush and Banter takes around 5 hours.

I give WYRMHALL: Brush and Banter 4.5 out of 5 stars. I would like to end my review with a quote from one of the characters at the start of the game: Don’t let “perfect” be the enemy of “great.”

This review for WYRMHALL: Brush and Banter was written on 7 March 2025, based on the current Steam version of the game which has 15 achievements at the time of writing this review. This information can be outdated, for example, when the developer adds or removes achievements or releases (new) DLC.