Windbound
Skip · Roguelike · 2020
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 5, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 13.6h 19.6h to 100%
- Value
- $1.47/hr
- Reviews
- 59% of 1,182 positive
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What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
The Forbidden Islands are Calling, Unlock their Secrets. Shipwrecked on an island, explore, adapt and navigate the land and perilous seas to stay alive.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 4600, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 630, Radeon HD 5670, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
June 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $1.99. 6 discounts in the 6 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 4 weeks apart.
It is pricier than 83 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Crashlands ($14.99, scores 80) beats it on value, while it beats Cube World ($19.99, scores 2).
More about Windbound
This site sampled 709 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 12 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written August 2020 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,174 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 160 have a larger share. In its first 30 days on sale, 6 of 148 sampled reviews came from refunders. Inside the two-hour refund window, 33 percent of the 230 reviews written there were positive, against 59 percent overall, and those are 22 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 13.6 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
22% start to 9% finishA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
Note: Admittedly I have used AI to help write this review as I'm not very good at explaining what I mean and I tend to make it overly convoluted, but the opinions are entirely my own and represent my actual experience. I hope this review helps shed some positive light on a game that I think has been given a much worse rep than it deserves. I really enjoy *Windbound* because it's bright, colourful, and relaxing to...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
It's quite a relaxing game if you just want to learn how to play survival. highly recommended for female gamers who just want to start out with survival games. Would prefer it if there were more than 4 islands per level to gather resources from with more variety so that if you play on the endless version that you can still gathe rmore materials sooner.
Glitchy. I've lost my progress twice now. Over 65 hours lost. But I was able to finally get it back.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Windbound scores 5/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1162130/windboundReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 27, price as of Sep 27. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.