Windward
Fair · RPG · 2015
The verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 50% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$9.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$4.9950% offFair
- Cost per hourS
- $0.62/hr
- Reviews▼
- 80% of 3,636
- Critics
- 61 players 19 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 12% RPG
Holding it back: Reviews
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 16.2h
- To 100%
- 41.1h 2.5x the story
- Achievements
- 31
Price and sales
- Sales
- 62 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $2.49 June 2017
- Sale every
- 51d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 4 now
- Cheaper than
- 38% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 74% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
82% start to 5% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 62 discounts in the 12 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 12 percent. It is pricier than 62 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 74 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Sid Meier's Pirates! ($9.99, scores 87) beats it on value, while it beats Blood and Gold: Caribbean! ($19.99, scores 7).
More about Windward
Critics scored it 61. Players sit 19 points higher at 80 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Of the 415 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 43 percent of the 286 reviews written there were positive, against 80 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 16.2 hours. Doing everything runs 41, 2.5 times as long.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
I would not recommend that game to anyone, neither friend or foe. Whats good in there: - First 2-4 hours its fresh, its offers great expirience due surfing open seas, fight pirates or become one. - Such a sweet music there, 3-4 tracks but makes ambient very cozy. - Fighting are good, just make sure you pull damage scroller to 200%, or it becomes minus. Whats bad in there: -Everything after 4 hours of playing. Grind...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Windward is an action-filled multiplayer sandbox game that puts you in control of a ship sailing the high seas of a large procedurally-generated world.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 4200, 246 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Windward scores 58/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/326410/windwardReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 19, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.