
Resettle the shards of a shattered world in this peaceful roguelite deckbuilder, covering centuries of classical Japanese art. Nurture communities, befriend animal spirits, and shape a new civilization through choices that echo across generations.
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Worlds Upon the Wind is a peaceful roguelite deckbuilder about rebuilding a shattered civilization after the apocalypse. Shape forests, deserts, and ruins through careful planning and resourcefulness, rather than conflict. Guide settlers across drifting world shards, nurturing new communities and weaving new traditions as you restore life to forgotten lands. Embark on a journey of restoration and community in this tactical game for those who prefer to take their time and weigh their choices.

Assemble your deck from hundreds of powerful Glyphs and unique Relics, each offering new strategic possibilities. Use glyphs to transform the environment and manipulate your chances with powerful invocations. Craft glyphs, balance your deck, and develop unique builds to adapt to the ever-changing landscape and challenges.

Face hundreds of dilemmas with no right answers. Keep wildlife at a distance or invite them into your cities? Preserve violent artwork or destroy it? Sacrifice safety for dangerous alchemical experiments, or seek harmony at the cost of productivity? Choices shape the outcome of your expeditions, as well as the contents of your deck.

Explore procedurally-generated world shards filled with different biomes, events, challenges, and opportunities. Every choice shapes the fate of your settlers and grants new glyphs and relics to transform your deck. Every run offers unique gameplay opportunities and insights that unlock new skills for future runs. And every budding community you establish leaves a mark, no matter how small.

Pacify restless spirits haunting the world shards, and befriend 15 unique animal companions through their own questlines, each offering a game-changing ability to help in future runs.

Immerse yourself in a unique visual style that traces the evolution of Japanese art from ancient picture scrolls to the different styles of Japanese woodblock prints. Serene landscapes, gentle music, and classical hand-painted scenes invite you to reflect and savor each moment as you're planning your next move.

If you're learning Japanese, this game offers completely optional kanji learning minigames with thousands of vocabulary and example sentences to complete, deeply integrated into the game, as well as options to display titles in kanji or kana, with dictionary tooltips.
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The game is amazing! I played the demo for ~4 days and found it deep and engaging before buying it. I don't play deckbuilders much but the complexity and replayability that this game offers is really dopamine-inducing. There are a lot of tactics and some strategy to it all as well as a unique aesthetic that allows for some casual 5-10min runs or a marathon 4-6 hour session if you get hooked. There is only 1 save per game so it can be unforgiving but it incrementally adds to the interest, learning and eventual success and the cycle continues. Well done, keep up the good work developer-sama.
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Languages: English**languages with full audio support
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Incredibly unique deck builder with fantastic music, art history, story, and mechanics. Major kudos to the creator. An inspiring game that should receive more attention. Masterpiece!
I've only scratched the surface, but this is a unique special game. It presents puzzles you must solve using your 'deck of cards' to meet each stage's requirements, which results in you exploring the lands and establishing outposts/villages. All steeped in mystical japanese culture and kanji (a whole minigame you can play if you want). I'm eager to see where this game takes me. Right now, I'm very intrigued and look forward to my next session. Worth a look!
Lovely game. Just try the demo for a good hour. Chill and get to understand and enjoy all the little details that makes this game its own style of gameplay and feeling. It's just so well done, UI, Artstyle, systems, progression, accessibility... Allocate cards with simple symbols to make ressources and take advantage of little bonus from cards you don't use. Get through nicely written events that give you meaningful choices both on the moment and sometimes for your whole playthrough. Just a great, great simply well done, original and pleasant game, with a big touch of japanese culture (language, illustrations...).
This is a lovely gem of a game, unlike anything else I've played before. The central gameplay loop is engaging and the meta-progression quests unlock new content at a perfect rate. And it's absolutely beautiful -- the more you keep playing, the more you notice lovely little touches and pieces of polish. The (solo) developer is also more responsive than any other dev I've seen. I had trouble reading some of the smaller content, so he added a custom zoom within _one day_ of me asking -- and this was two days before release! I can't imagine a better game to buy to support independent development.
It's a uniquely chill deckbuilder roguelite that's polished, content-rich, and priced very attractively for what you're getting here. It's also got some neat language learning aspects to it as well, but they're optional... this is decidedly a fun videogame first and foremost, it doesn't feel like thinly-veiled homework in the way that games whose primary pitch is language learning tend to.
This is a real gem. I found it completely by accident and the demo completely sold me on it. The gameplay is interesting and simple to understand, but has intricacies that I enjoy. I did not expect to enjoy the story bit as much, but I really do. Everything is well made, well written and well thought out. The music is also amazing and quite an ear bug, been in my head for days now. Definitely worth the money, honestly it's a steal. But if you're unsure if it's for you, the demo can definitely give you a good idea of how the game works. Honestly, 10/10 for me.
This game is a harmonious blend between hard-core number crunching of your typical card-drafting board games and mind-calming aesthetic appreciation. Between the soothing music, eye-opening arts, and cold-blooded repetition of the same term just to find out the best combination of playing your cards -- it's very easy to kill a few hours without you even notice.
A really chill game that is educational, as well. Absolutely recommended.
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