Island of Winds News

Become a nature soothing spellcaster in beautiful new adventure game

When you think of videogame magic, you probably think of the more destructive tools first. Skyrim, Dragon Age, Baldur's Gate 3 - blasting enemies with fireballs and lighting to solve your problems. But I've always had a penchant for the more nuanced spells, like The Witcher's mind-swaying Axii sign and the DnD Command spell seen in BG3. So I'm very much intrigued by new indie adventure game Island of Winds, which is currently on show at WASD Live 2024 and is all about using your powers in service of a more peaceful life.

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Dive deeper into Island of Winds with new developer commentary video!

We are thrilled to reveal the first developer walkthrough video for Island of Winds, coming to PC and consoles in 2025!

As part of the London Games Festival, we presented an in-depth walkthrough video for Island of Winds with brand-new gameplay, and an introduction to the fascinating setting, folklore and characters players will experience.

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Island of Winds will be playable during the WASD Live event in London from 25 - 27 April on the Games London stand (T2). Fans attending will be among the first to get some hands-on time with this stunning action adventure as well as watching an exclusive developer walkthrough filmed especially for the event.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1689340/Island_of_Winds/

ESDigital Games to Publish Parity Games’ Action Adventure Title Island of Winds!

Publisher ESDigital Games is thrilled to announce a new partnership with Parity Games to publish awe-inspiring action-adventure title Island of Winds for PC and consoles in late 2025.

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ESDigital Games is also thrilled to announce that Island of Winds will be playable at the upcoming WASD Live event in London from 25 - 27 April on the Games London stand (T2). Fans attending will be among the first to get some hands-on time with this stunning action adventure as well as watching an exclusive developer walkthrough filmed especially for the event.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1689340/Island_of_Winds/

Introduction to the Island of Winds: Our Levels

The Gorge (image above)

When designing the look of Island of Winds our team has been highly inspired by the nature of our native country Iceland. Here above we have an image of one of our levels which goes by the name “Gorge”. The Gorge is inspired by the many gorges of Iceland such as Stuðlagil, Múlagil and Fjaðrárgljúfur, of which the image below was taken.
Since we are not only inspired by the landscape of the country but also the culture and folklore of
it´s 17th century we strive to keep the integrity of the land and scenery from that time, while still hanging tight to our games colour palette and design scheme.

Fjaðrárgljúfur (image below)

Island of Winds at Reykjavik Culture night

On Reykjavík Cultural night, we at Parity games, showcased our game and our design process at the National museum of Iceland (Þjóðminjasafnið). The exhibition was a great success, a lot of people came and tried out Island of Winds. We are honored to be in this collaboration. It enables us to get access to 3D scanned artefacts from the museum that we use in our game.

One of these artefacts is the “álfapottur” or the “Elfpot in English. The name originates from a 19th century folklore story that claims this pot originally comes from elves.
The story takes place on a New Years Eve in the Westfjords of Iceland. A local man was standing outside at midnight as he saw people walking by in the distance. Intrigued, he went over to see and was surprised to find a small child following them. As he approached, the child that called for it´s mother, threw something on the ground and disappeared. The man went to pick up what he saw was a pot and realized that he had just seen elves. He decided to keep the pot preciously, it passed down in the family, sometimes being used to cure illness, before ending up in the National museum. And now at last it will be found in a computer game.