Windblown News

• ⭐️ Pietro (the multiplayer NPC) will now always be visible when unlocked, even offline, and will prompt you to log in
  
• ⭐️ Fixed potential UI lock when getting Alterattack upgrades
  
• ⭐️ Fixed potential lock when going to a Hidden shop
  
• ⭐️ Fixed Ninja stars weapon behaviour, should be easier to use
  
• ⭐️ Fixed rebinding not working with some keys
  
• ⭐️ Fixed game icon resolution
  

• Degressive coefficients for control effects (stun/freeze/...) have been changed. Standard enemies can always be controlled. Elites and enemies made for duels can now resist these effects. Minibosses and bosses can still resist. Degressive coefficients have a reset timer for everyone.
  
• Reduced the amount of heal flasks in some shops in multiplayer
  
• Ice bomb duration reduced from 4s to 3s
  
• Incubator and Rat village bestiary rebalanced to be more difficult
  
• Rebalanced bestiary health in multiplayer
  

Windblown looks rad. It's an action-roguelite for 1-3 players in which you dash-and-slash in rapid combat on floating islands, and I am extremely interested in feeling its game-feel for myself. Good news! I can get my game-feelers on it now because it's out in Early Access today.

If you watch its launch trailer below out of context however, you might be fooled into thinking it's actually the emo second half of an Isekai anime series.

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So far, Windblown is the Dead Cells successor I've been hoping for. While Motion Twin stays true to the foundations of its beloved 2017 roguelike, there's more than enough here to distinguish Windblown and make it feel like a completely new vision. The entire game is built around its dodge mechanic - although the dodge is a core principle in Dead Cells, Hades, and Enter the Gungeon, in Windblown it almost becomes a religion. If Motion Twin continues to build on these movement mechanics, Windblown could very well claim the roguelike crown.

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• We first want to gather initial feedback on the game to ensure that any big refactoring / core issues / awesome core idea suggestions are tackled before releasing new major content for the game (e.g. a biome or set of new rewards like weapons, gifts etc). Our focus here is to make sure that the game is stable and working as intended, and if we've missed anything incredible, we want to prioritise that.
  
• Polish everything that we think is in a rough state! (There's a lot... 👀)
  

• Of course we want to expand the world of Windblown both in terms of adventure and sense of progress. That means: having more biomes, more enemies, more weapons, trinkets, gifts and magifishes! We can't put a date or timeline on this, but know it's definitely in our plans once the game is stable!
  
• Add new skins! (Yep, simply that).
  
• We want to add more interesting choices for players in how they navigate from biome to biome, (e.g. having branching choices not solely at the ark but also at the end of some biomes) and ensure that they are original and diverse enough to make that choice really relevant.
  
• More synergies and crazy builds - Windblown is all about the thrill of combat, and the speed in which you tackle the sentinels! So of course we'll be looking at how mechanics work together, and introducing new ways to dish out pain!
  
• We want to have more useful interaction between single and multiplayer, meaning we ensure the right balance between those modes’ difficulties is found (this is something that needs to be considered with almost every change to the game). Basically, exploring new ways of making single-player useful for multiplayer and vice-versa.
  
• Have the time to check suggestions from the community and have the same approach we had in the alpha, during which we prototyped and iterated some of their crazy ideas! This takes time though, to ensure everything works and is polished.
  

• We know some players are hungry for lore, and want to know more about what's going on and why the Vortex is being such a d*ck!
  

• Add QoL changes that would enhance the overall experience (e.g. moving emotes to a menu? Being able to use the text chat anywhere… yeah that's not the case yet!)
  
• Ensure the games’ stability, enhance its performance in all the possible ways we can think of (including Steam Deck, of course).
  
• Add accessibility options (to be transparent this could take some time, as it's not a small thing to do if you want to do it right. We don’t want to add features just for the sake of saying "hey we added something"! They have to be right, and work correctly for those that need them).
  

• If we are successful enough, then of course we'll look at console ports!
  
• We’ll have to parallelize them though. Sadly it's not as simple as clicking a few buttons, the process takes time. We are only 8 people internally, around 12 counting the freelancers (kudos to them, without them the game would have been so hard to deliver 💪).