Worlds Upon The Wind

Actually incredible. And the way Kanjis represented is just beautiful!. I wish there was a little more learning aspect (Like in the kanji minigame, if I could look at parts of sentences separately), but that's just my wishes. Overall, the game is gorgeous, and the gameplay loop is fun. Also, please release soundtrack, I will buy it immediately

Really beautiful deck building game where you're recreating a world through exploration, decision making and your chosen deck of glyphs. It's all rendered in gorgeous traditional Japanese art enhanced by the sound design and music. It's a real treat!

A game of really enjoyable complexity without stress - I particularly love the ability to retry rounds with a fixed seed, I think this is not a game that would benefit from false urgency. Lots of interlocking, slowly revealing mechanics, but broadly speaking you receive a new challenge with each new tool, which stops the game from completely trivialising itself. A story that genuinely makes sense, and I love the shard culture system for giving you incentives to play towards unusual or weird goals - it's really helped me avoid running the same strategy every time. I will say that there are some very very centralising glyphs; I see no reason to ever stop myself running Six, for example. But the use to which I put these powerful glyphs, and the way I balance the priority within a specific foray vs my overall shard goals vs inspiration is really rich and satisfying. I am somewhat through the story now and there's still a lot to unlock; I think you could add shard cultures ad infinitum and keep me playing for hours and trying to do odd little playthroughs. Just a really lovely game.

This game is fun, even when you botch your card choices. Takes some strategy, knowing your deck. Make sure to collect any resources (right click cards that you haven't been able to use, that have resources on them, before Drawing your second hand (Redraw Hand button). I played the Kanji minigame, though I don't know Kanji. I tried to figure out what was being depicted from the structure of the symbol to see if I could figure out the word it matched. The art gallery and history is beautiful. Well worth the price.

This is such a relaxing and well made game. You can easily sit down and work on a run or two and be done in a short time or get lost in it and let time fly by as you immerse yourself in this charming puzzle oriented deck builder with very enjoyable to read event and lore built around your runs.

What a breath of fresh air! I was worried it might be an overly complicated cultivation something-or-another, but it's a lot more straightforward than screenshots suggest. Great emergent storytelling, fun to see different cultures emerge, and enough depth if you want it. You can even use it as a Japanese study tool! Probably the most fun I've had with a game in a while.

An excellent game, with clever mechanics and well balanced progression. The art and music are also lovely. An absolute steal at this price!

I played the demo for 13 hours and immediately got the full game on release. It's became a soothing daily ritual. I love the gentle, meditative, sometimes humorous narrative moments, the way the map updates to reflect the towns and structures you've chosen to build, the combination of luck and strategy involved in developing a site, and the overall story of this fractured world being drawn together, piece by piece. For people interested in Japanese history and language, the original ukiyo-e art that inspired the game's style is loving displayed and explained in a hub-gallery, and optional mini-games help players remember japanese kanji on all the cards. In a lot of ways, this game as a sincere and aspirational call to action: relax, find community, and make the fractured world better.