Every game wiki has the same failure mode, and it isn't hosting or search — it's rot. A roguelite ships a balance patch, the "best build" everyone recommends gets quietly nerfed, and the wiki keeps presenting last month's meta as truth. Players burn a run on stale advice, blame the site, and never come back.
Sephiria is a new action roguelite that patches every few weeks, which makes it a worst case for wiki rot. So when I built sephiriabuilds.xyz, I spent more time on the correctness pipeline than on the visual design. This post is the parts worth stealing.
Start from a template, then strip it honest
I started from AnvilWiki — an open-source Astro 5 game-wiki template (MIT). It gives you content collections, tag pages, breadcrumbs, sitemap, and a clean card layout out of the box, which saves a week of plumbing.
The first real job was deletion, not addition. The template ships with demo content for its original game — placeholder boss pages, a fake "video guides" section with a YouTube ID that doesn't exist, promo blocks for games the template never covered. All of it gone. A wiki that shows one piece of fabricated content teaches the reader that none of it can be trusted.
