Windlands
Fair · Narrative · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $12.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 4.7h 29.8h to 100%
- Value
- $2.76/hr
- Reviews
- 78% of 866 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $9.09 (30% off). Calls like this were right 86% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
A first person grappling hook exploration game.Soar through the ruins of a fallen world and discover the secrets of the ancients. Designed with full Virtual Reality support for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, also works great in Non VR.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
It has been discounted 60 times in the 11 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 60 percent, about 9 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 17 percent on value. It is pricier than 75 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 60 percent. Among the games that feel like it, NaissanceE (free, scores 64) beats it on value, while it beats Red Matter ($24.99, scores 49).
More about Windlands
Steam's global achievement data puts 60 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Inside the two-hour refund window, 60 percent of the 364 reviews written there were positive, against 78 percent overall, and those are 46 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 4.7 hours. Doing everything runs 30, 6.3 times as long.
The drop-off
60% start to 60% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 2 when we last checked, on Oct 4, 03:53 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Can't believe this game isn't more popular. Will always remember this as one of the best games I played in early VR.
1 more review
This game was great. Played it a couple years ago, but still remember it well, I have nice memories of it.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Windlands scores 54/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/428370/windlandsReviews 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 Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.