The Wind Road
Skip · RPG · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $29.99.
- Length
- 13.9h
- Value
- $2.16/hr
- Reviews
- 69% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 12 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760, 40 GB of storage. Windows only.
"The Wind Road" is an ARPG real-time combat game, constructing a martial-arts world based on the ancient Silk Road under the background of a fictional era.
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $20.99, set in January 2021. Its cuts run 20 percent off as a rule. There have been 5 in the 6 years tracked, about 20 weeks apart.
It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 76 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Absolver ($2.99, scores 35) and 下一站江湖Ⅱ ($19.99, scores 22) both outscore it.
Steam's global achievement data says about 4 percent of players ever finish it. On a 13.9-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. 5 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 56 percent of the 1,388 reviews written there were positive, against 69 percent overall, and those are 23 percent of everything written about it.
13.9 hours to finish it, 51 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.7 times the campaign.
The drop-off
68% start to 4% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 13.9-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
1 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
despite fact that combat is good and bad at same time because how disconnected it is and how some enemies can be perma CC'd, this game is still amazing and best wuxia game (besides WWM that released recently). It's the only real time action wuxia game (bloody spell doesn't count, because that game is a bit meme) because other is usually turn based or side scrollers. The there only two things that I don't like: 1. I...
really good game , hope they make a wind road 2 . good combat , amazing styles, nice universe . farming books for all styles is fun , the only downside is that its not pure open world . the crafting system is not worth it though . you never get a lot of materials so you can craft a lot. . the devs of this game is currently working on a 2d sekiro themed game so i will buy that one for sure to support the devs. might...
Great game in my honest opinion! Love the story and graphics, waiting for the rest of the story!
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The Wind Road scores 20/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1264670/the-wind-roadThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 15, price as of Sep 23.
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