Winds of Valen

I wish there was a neutral rating. I'm giving it a thumbs down only because I don't recommend playing it just yet. There's very little content, a tiny player population and because they charge a subscription fee to access part of the game. It's way to early for that! There's not enough here! The game has potential and the devs seem to be active so hopefully this blossoms into a fun game with a good player base. We'll see. Will revisit this review in the future.

no friends list yet but they have a sub fee lol

Created character, changed settings, saw no WASD. Uninstalled.

Game lacks enough content to justify the recent addition of a membership subscription. Dev could have set up a supporter pack on the store page to the same effect but decided to go the scummy route instead.

Subscribe to beta test, do not recommend right now.

Lacks content and are now locking future content behind a membership subscription. big oof.

Winds of Valen sells itself as an old-school, free-to-play sandbox MMORPG heavily inspired by the golden age of classic RuneScape , and spending exactly 30 minutes inside is the perfect amount of time to get a hit of pure nostalgia before the microtransaction cracks begin to show You spawn into a tiny, low-poly starter village built entirely out of cheap asset-store kits, talk to local stall vendors , and hit the nearby fields to start grinding out early combat levels against basic monsters .Mechanically, the charm is immediate if you miss retro MMOs. The game relies on a completely non-linear structure where you slowly level up core skills like mining, smithing, and dynamic gathering entirely at your own pace However, the community's recent backlash is entirely justified the developers recently locked major quality-of-life updates, essential bank storage upgrades, and core map zones (like Valen City) behind a premium monthly membership pass As a long-term MMORPG, this aggressive subscription framework completely kills the fun for casual players . But if you treat it as a completely free, 30-minute interactive museum piece to see how modern indie devs try to copy OSRS without cluttering your Steam profile with garbage tracker achievements , it is a fun, quick curiosity to experience once.

Beginning of the end.