The Stillness of the Wind
Skip · Narrative · 2019
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 31, under the fair line, at $12.99.
- Length
- 3.3h
- Value
- $3.94/hr
- Reviews
- 75% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GPU: DirectX 9 compatible, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
A quiet game of life and loss. One by one, everyone left the village for the city. Everyone, except Talma. Approaching her final years, she maintains a simple way of life tending to her homestead, surviving, subsisting, whilst increasingly disturbing letters arrive from her family in the city.
What drives the score
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.94, set in May 2022. Its cuts run 85 percent off as a rule. There have been 76 in the 8 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart.
It is pricier than 75 percent of its genre. Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP ($7.99, scores 44) outscores it, and so does The Almost Gone ($9.99, scores 49). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
None of the 553 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 61 percent of the 258 reviews written there were positive, against 75 percent overall, and those are 19 percent of everything written about it.
What players say
I don't really get the negative reviews. I feel like this is a pretty thoughtful game that allows the player to make different decisions within a limited amount of time. I spent my entire first playthrough making way too much cheese unnecessarily. I plan to focus on exploration with my second playthrough. There are so many little things hidden around and quite frankly, I don't feel as though you are meant to...
A game that makes you feel the ache from the start. Pet a goat, had some beautiful flowers, made cheese and cried a lot. PD: El próximo diluvio te vuelvo a ver.
The Stillness of the Wind is a game about Nana, an elderly woman, whose family has all moved away to the city. With little time remaining in her life, she spends her final months maintaining her family farm. Each day she's visited by a local trader, who shares news from the city. Letters from her family become increasingly worrying, and Nana's world grows increasingly disturbing as her life comes to an end. The...
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Cite this score
The Stillness of the Wind scores 31/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/828900/the-stillness-of-the-windReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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