The Next Big Roguelike is Here and it's Perfect | Windblown

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[malikhittam]

It's so disappointing to see some fans of hades and dead cells be so stingy when it comes to the devs trying new stuff out. Both windblown and hades 2 look like legendary projects, which will most likely go on to be some of the best games games in the genre. Most of the negative responses I have seen for these games are that they are very different from the previous ones, which is just such a shame because trying new stuff is what might eventually elevate them above their predecessors

[TheHeartThatRunsCold]

I was skeptical of top-down 3D dead cells. Played it, and it shut me up. It definitely lives up to its name because I was blown away.

[phiphi]

They did not need to cook as hard as they did with this ost. ITS SO CATCHY AND ROPED ME IN EVER SINCE THE INTRO. Oh yeah and the game play is absolute perfection, take that high speed thrilling combat of dead cells and apply it to a top down perspective with areas that remind me strangely of solar ash of all things and you end up with this amazing game. SO happy to have it finally out

[PandaWithAnASharp]

I knew as soon as I played the demo that this game was 100% for me.

Bought it at exactly 11am at its launch time.

And already have 6 hours in it. Combining the time of the demo i have a total of 14 hours in this game.

Love it so much

[Teryte]

Windblown is probably the game this year I've been most hyped for, and it's better than I thought

[Dan_Tasty]

Looks great. One thing that bugs me is the text pop ups for the challenge and all of the gift descriptions have no life like the rest of the world. After playing Sky: Children of the Light and loving how immersive the stylized world is absent of most text it makes switching to games that just have blocks of writing on the screen that aren't well integrated into the gameplay experience very jarring. I'd love an option (or mod) to turn off those distractions and replace them with symbols that fit the stylization of the world as well as replacing the sprites for the cooldowns and collectables with graphics that don't look like they're from an entirely different game. Obviously this adds a "hard mode" aspect that I'd want to be completely opt in, but I think you can get the same ideas across in a more integrated way. Diegesis is the word used in film for when meta-communication is integrated into the film via a physical manifestation of the format, usually when narration or score which are typically technical functions of the film have an in-universe source like a radio or character who's revealed to be existing offscreen. I'd love it if games eschewed common modes of communicating information for more immersive ones like that more often.
Bit of a side rant, but I reckon the relationship between narrative and UI is fun to talk about

[WeeWeeJumbo]

lotta terrific indies launched in September and October. this is on my wishlist

[aaronkaw]

I just gave the game a try just now, and I love this! The mechanics of weapons and enemies is really good! Looking forward to seeing how creative they get as a player improves.

[octogorb]

Will say love this game and so far I only got one complaint, the Elite modifier with the shadowclone just, isnt good depending on which big enemy it rolls on. Had one with the saw guy and could not punish them at all without getting hit. Besides that, love everything else about the game.

[rayray]

"Finally took a hit", bro, it was the second group of enemies.

[ByrneBaby]

me dropping a like and comment for algo while using Haelian as an indie game news station (this one looks sick, can't watch for spoilers but ty for tipping me off to this one)

[MinaTepesshu]

The music is soooo Phantasy Star Online. I love it.

[ascendable]

Looks amazing, will give me headaches for sure can't wait 🎉

[benjtheo]

looks very cool, only complaint so far is that its pretty difficult to tell what hit you.

[HVH_]

The game looks amazing despite it still early access. I will pick this game up when the full version comes out. In the mean time, I’ll support the devs by spreading information about this game. I’ve played Dead Cells before and I can say that DC was a great game. Clear progression and I’m still stuck at 4 (Hell Difficulty) and yet to beat the original ending but I’ve been playing it since 2022.

[Tyelkormoko]

Amazing showcase, gonna hit the stream soon!

[manueldragon]

This really looks like one of the games that Riot previewed.

[Fragmaster]

I'd say it looks a little easy, but I remember how Dead Cells had a very tall difficulty curve where it starts easy and gets absurd, so I imagine that the difficulty is yet to come.

[TheCaptainDamage]

I will LOOOOVE to see the first Speedruns from you! :O <3

[occamsbutterknife]

been playing this demo a lot! I can't wait for this and 13Z to come out!