Windward
Fair · RPG · 2015
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 16.2h
- Value
- $0.62/hr
- Reviews
- 80% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 4200, 246 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
June 2017 is where it bottomed out, at $2.49. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 61 in the 12 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 10 percent on value. It is pricier than 60 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 73 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Sid Meier's Pirates! ($2.49, scores 92) beats it on value, while it beats Salt ($14.99, scores 33).
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 414 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 43 percent of the 285 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.
The drop-off
82% start to 5% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
3 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
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...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Windward scores 58/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/326410/windwardThe 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 22, price as of Sep 24.
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