Windrose Early Access: My First Five Hours of Fun and Suffering
I went into Windrose expecting the usual survival game routine. Punch a tree, build a box, pretend I’m having fun while staring at a crafting menu for half my playtime. If you’ve played one crafting survival game, you’ve played most of them. Same systems, different coat of paint, maybe a slightly angrier deer. Five hours later though, I’m still here. That’s already a win. Windrose isn’t reinventing the genre, but it does something a lot of these games forget to do. It actually feels good to play. Then it turns around and slaps you in the face for getting too damn comfortable. It’s a fun little cycle. Definitely not designed by asshats...probably. So What is Windrose Matey? At its core, you’re looking at an open-world survival game with some baked in base building, island exploration, and ship travel tying everything […]
