Child of the Wind

Child of the Wind is a unique VR game where your hands in-game are fans you'll use to push / navigate a ship through dangerous worlds. Avoid islands, sink wholes and pirates by pushing your ship our of danger or crashing enemies into islands. The game is pretty difficult for VR unless you have really long arms.. which I don't. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXiTBw1XQBM

Child of the wind is surprisingly good. The gameplay is pretty original, you have 2 fans and you need to guide a boat to safety and collect floating crates all while dodging dangerous things (pirate boats, tyhphoons, rocks, etc...) by pushing it with wind. You can also push the ennemys boats, the floating crates and use youre fans to open mill powered gates. The game is really well done, I just think It could have more levels but I can't complain, I bought it on sale for 3$ which is a fair price. 8$ is a bit pricy considering how short the game is, I reccomend to get it on sale.

Thank you Freetale for developing this awesome game! I love the paintings on the wall and the concept of controlling wind is nice.

I don't get the point of that game. I mean it feels like a phone game. Or maybe it is just a student project game where they learn how to code in VR ?

Cooles Segel-, Windspiel bei dem man mit seinen Fächern in den Händen ein Segelschiff durch teils enge Gewässer steuern muss. Gleichzeitig soll man Fässer und Kisten aus dem Wasser fischen und feindliche Schiffe fernhalten. Die Steuerung mit Hilfe der Fächer ist der eigentliche Witz des Spiels. Durch wedeln mit den Fächern erzeugt man den Wind durch den man Objekte und das eigene Schiff in die gewünschte Richtung bewegt. Lustiger weise agieren alle Objekte auf den selben Wind. Das bedeutet, dass es immer schwerer wird zwei Objekte auseinander oder zueinander zu bringen, je näher die Objekte beieinander sind ;-) Frühzeitiges reagieren bei Hindernissen ist somit essenziell, um den Zielhafen zu erreichen! Die Optik, Grafik ist gut gelungen und bietet ein wunderbaren chinesischen Style. Auch der Sound unterstreicht den chinesischen Flair. Die Steuerung mit den Motioncontroller ist gut und fair umgesetzt. Hab immer nachvollziehen können was ich falsch gemacht hab. Mit dem Preis von 6,95 Euro ist das Spiel super preiswert und eine echte Kaufempfehlung.

Was a very interesting game and a good use of tracked controllers but as of 2025, no longer launches. SteamVR updates seem to have relegated some legacy VR titles to the scrap heap including this one.

I like the concept (hence why I bought it), but the experience wasn't positive. The game is unplayable on my computer (probably it's not well optimised). The lower half of the screen had black (semi transparant) artifacts and the game lagged. The lagging combined with the game being unforgiving for any mistake, makes it impossible to enjoy and sail far. If your computer is beefier (GTX 1070, but no problem with almost all other VR titles), it might be worth trying. (was doubting if a negative review would be fair, but all the others being only positive didn't seem correct either, as the review of FastLawyer clarifies)