Windward

Sigh, i really liked WIndward at start and for good chunk of playtime, but… developers kinda abandoned game by that point already, so no new content and no fixes for bugs that were left. But still, it’s a neat pirate game, kinda, where you command ship and sail through maps doing quests, trading, exploring, hunting pirates and bosses. So Windward is a little open world procedurally generated naval arcade game, with a bit of rpg. You mostly develop your ship with new “gear” parts, not by actually lvling it and learning skills or assigning attribute points. There are some options regarding skills you could use, but they are quite few to choose from and generally about what kind of big cannonade you could use every few seconds. Trading and quests are viable mostly in early game or to gain faction reputation, best gear you get from powerful pirate boss ships drops. Fighting them is quite fun at first, but longer you play and higher lvl opponent you encounter more evident it becomes that those are staying the same, just getting insane amount of hp and bigger dmg, not new mechanics or interesting tactics, they just become bullet sponges. There are some bugs that are most evident in combat and unfortunately mostly left alone without fixing. As you might have noticed mmorpg and multiplayer tag - yes, it’s present, instead of your own procedurally generated world, you could join public one with other people in it, but activities are exactly same as in single player and enemies scaling is done in best Windward tradition by just making them much fatter and more damaging. Audio is nothing to write home about, don't expect pirate shanties or anything of likes, it would probably get annoying pretty fast considering how repetitive it is. Sounds are roughly sameish. Graphics are done in pretty standardy looking top down 3d manner, after looking at screenshot, you’d get sense that you’ve already seen that style somewhere and not just once. There is not much of distinctive style and neither were the looks great when it released, even less so now. Plot is not present i think, cant recall anything about it being in the game at all, though there shouldn’t be much of an issue regarding it.

6/10

Ниче не понял. Покатался на лодке вокруг и усё... Русского нет. Обучения нет. Сюжета нет. Как тут и чего методом тыка разбираться только... Прям вымораживают сложные по механике игры в которых мне не могут рассказать как в нее играть...

♥♥♥♥♥ ты конченый? 2к рублей за игру,ты ебнулся? я покупал е за 350рублей,а теперь уже 2к,♥♥♥♥♥♥ разраб высокомерный стал

Цена у игры была адекватная, теперь это некий элемент борьбы, я полагаю. Значит и отзыв я оставлю отрицательный, ибо игра хоть и с потенциалом, хоть я и провёл в ней время с удовольствием (ещё и в компании друзей), но она все равно довольно сырая и пустоватая. Понятно, что расчет не на то, что вы втроём будете играть, но я все равно не вижу причин поддержать разраба, который так ко мне отнёсся. Вторая часть не лучше, а даже скорее хуже, ибо лагает жутко. Я осознаю, что это только для ру региона они так задрали цену и я бы кучу всего игре простил и не смотря на бедное наполнение порекомендовал, но по цене ААА проекта продавать виндвард это просто издевательство.

Windward erinnert mich ein wenig an ein Spiel von der Demo-CD der PlayStation 1 und vermittelt mir dadurch einen starken nostalgischen Touch. Gleichzeitig hat das Spiel natürlich deutlich mehr zu bieten als ein simples PS1-Demo-Game. Man blickt aus der Vogelperspektive auf sein Schiff, bekämpft Piraten (oder wird selbst zum Piraten), erobert Orte, liefert Waren von Hafen zu Hafen und verbessert dabei stetig sein Schiff. Im Kern fühlt es sich ein wenig an wie Diablo auf hoher See: Man erhält immer bessere Ausrüstung für sein Schiff und wird von einem sehr motivierenden Gameplay-Loop getragen.

It's a relaxing, pleasant vibe. Sailing back and forth delivering cargo or ferrying passengers can be repetitive if you're impatient for progress or action, but if you enjoy watching your own little ship sailing back and forth in pristine weather, it's quite relaxing. And if you're more in the mood for relentless and unyielding combat, that's also an option. The game allows for a lot of ways to tailor the difficulty to your liking. I would love more ships, but there are already over a dozen to choose from, so perhaps I'm just greedy. I come back to this game every couple years or so to enjoy the vibe. For $10 I don't think you'll be disappointed.

I love this game, but the dev ruined it with strange decisions before leaving this game for their new ai slop remake.