Fit check
Is Windlands worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Players who enjoy calm, non-violent exploration in ruined environments
- VR users seeking grappling-hook traversal through towering landscapes
- Completionists and speed-focused players interested in collectibles, alternate routes, and timed challenges
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking combat, enemies, or violent action
- Players who prefer story-heavy progression over traversal and route exploration
- Players who do not want grappling-hook movement to define the main gameplay
Our take on Windlands
The focus on traversal and calm exploration leaves little room for combat or conventional action systems. Optional hard routes and timed runs add challenge, but the central experience remains movement through environmental spaces rather than varied mission types.
What is Windlands?
Windlands is a first-person exploration game focused on grappling-hook movement through the ruins of a fallen world.
Players soar across expansive levels, discover the secrets of the ancients, collect items, and choose between multiple routes with optional challenges. Skill-based speed runs and time trials include leaderboards. Goal-driven gameplay offers Easy, Normal, and Hard modes. The game supports virtual reality through HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, and it can also be played without a headset. Its non-violent structure supports calm exploration, while challenging routes test players who want to master high-speed movement through towering environments.
How Windlands plays
- 01Grappling-hook movement
- The game uses grappling hooks as its main way to travel through the environments.
- 02Exploration-focused levels
- Expansive areas contain secrets, collectibles, and multiple routes with optional challenges.
- 03Timed skill challenges
- Speed runs and time trials add optional objectives with leaderboard tracking.
- 04Three difficulty modes
- Players can choose between Easy, Normal, and Hard modes for goal-driven gameplay.
- 05VR and non-VR play
- The game supports HTC Vive and Oculus Rift headsets and can also be played without virtual reality equipment.
Windlands compared to similar games
Jusant combines climbing with action-puzzle mechanics, stamina management, and a journey up a tall tower, while Windlands centers movement on grappling hooks across expansive ruins. Both include exploration, alternate paths, and discoveries connected to an earlier world, but Windlands also adds VR support, collectibles, difficulty modes, and leaderboard-based time trials.
Windlands: platforms & release
Is Windlands worth it?
It is worth it if: players who enjoy calm, non-violent exploration in ruined environments. Skip it if: players seeking combat, enemies, or violent action.
Where can I download Windlands?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Windlands's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Windlands on?
Windows and macOS.
