Where Winds Meet
Fair · RPG · 2025
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Free and middling. Worth a look if the genre is yours.
- Length
- 35h
- Price
- Free to play
- Reviews
- 87% positive
Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, GTX 1060(6GB) / RX 480(8GB), 130 GB of storage. Windows only.
Step into an open-world action-adventure RPG set in ancient China. Uncover the secrets of your own identity as you rise from a humble village wanderer to the sword master of the imperial capital. Learn martial arts and build your reputation as a hero or a bringer of chaos in this free wuxia world.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
- Player count is unknown. We assumed a mid-size player base.
- Steam lists in-app purchases but we have no detail on them. Small caution applied.
The value story
Value puts it in the top 9 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 89 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, 100 Korea Cats (free, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats Tap Ninja - Idle game (free, scores 57).
Steam's global achievement data says about 1 percent of players ever finish it. On a 35-hour game, that is a lot of evenings most people never spend.
Finishing takes 35 hours; clearing it takes 144, which is 4.1 times the campaign.
113,014 people have reviewed it, which is a big enough crowd to settle the number.
The drop-off
41% start to 1% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 35-hour game, that's a lot of time most people never put in. Steam global achievements
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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Where Winds Meet scores 59/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). Player count is unknown, so the score assumes a mid-size player base. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3564740/where-winds-meetThe 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 Aug 3.
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