When you are an established creator, there’s a natural “hype” that follows when you’re getting ready to drop a new game. Today, the team over at Night Zookeeper, who have been nominated for awards for their past titles, revealed that their next game will be a creature collector called Wilds. It’ll drop on Steam this November, and the first details were revealed today alongside the first teaser trailer:

“Wilds is built around one simple idea, that players should not just choose from creatures someone else has made, they should be able to create their own. In Wilds, a drawing can become a banana hedgehog, a turtle car, a three-eyed dragon, a disco llama, or something no one else has ever imagined before. Once created, each Wild is brought into the game as a 3D character with its own look, abilities, attacks, and personality.

Set in the magical universe of Night Zookeeper, Wilds challenges players to help rebuild a world where imagination has been drained away. Players create and collect Wilds, customize their abilities, build out their spaces, take on strange challenges, and fight back against the grey, shadowy Voids that threaten to erase creativity from the Night Zoo.”

You have to admit, that’s pretty cool! You will be the one making the monsters that fill up this world! Plus, you can collect ones others have made, and share yours with other gamers! Here is a bigger breakdown of key features in the title:

• Draw Your Own Wilds – Design original creatures and watch them come to life as playable 3D characters.
• Author, Don’t Assemble – Invent creatures from scratch rather than combining preset parts.
• Creature Collection With Personal Meaning – Collect Wilds created by other players and build a roster of strange, funny and powerful community- made characters.
• Strategic Customization – Experiment with abilities, attacks and loadouts to make each Wild useful in different challenges.
• A World Built With The Community – Player ideas can inspire future items, outfits, creatures, locations, attacks and features.
• Safe Creative Play – Made by the BAFTA-nominated creators of Night Zookeeper, Wilds is designed as a safe creative space with no live chat.

Wishlist the game now if you’re up for making your own monsters and exploring this new world when November arrives.