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Windrose
Embark on a PvE survival adventure in the Age of Piracy. Fight on land and sea, solo or with friends. Build, craft and explore vast open world filled with dark secrets. Master soulslite combat and take on challenging bosses, command your ship and plunder unspoken treasures!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-25.
“I highly recommend Windrose if you like to build. No other game except Minecraft has scratched that itch in terms of personal creativity. Starts a lil generic with the chop tree and mine stuff in the beginning as in every survival game. Once you get the ship, the game opens up…”
— a player, Steam review · 189 hrs played“A GREAT FOUNDATION - NOW GIVE IT THE DEPTH IT DESERVES I actually really enjoyed Windrose. The pirate setting works. Exploring the world is fun. Sailing feels good. Building a base can be incredibly satisfying. There is a genuinely good game here. But after finishing the…”
— a player, Steam review · 68 hrs played“I've played enough to make an objective judgment. The game really deserves it, but I'd like to give some advice to the developers, hoping they'll read it: it's really annoying that every 100 meters of ocean there are 15 enemy ships, it makes no sense. The bonfire is certainly…”
— a player, Steam review · 98 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-08 via SteamCharts.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Windrose x Youtooz
Get your collection shelves ready! We’re happy to announce our collaboration with Youtooz on the first-ever Windrose collectibles! Our first thematic drop features three things every Archipelago capta
Triple-i Initiative x Windrose: Tune In on October 8th!
Ahoy, mateys! The Triple-i Initiative is back on October 8th, and Windrose is setting sail for the show once again! If you haven’t caught one before, Triple-i is basically one big, action-packed barra
Ashlands Development Sneak Peek + 10% Off!
Hey, captains! The end of summer is drawing near, and while it’s a little sad to see it go, we’re putting more and more effort into our next update, Ashlands. We decided to share a few small work-in-p
Patch Notes, version: 0.10.0.9
Patch Notes, version: 0.10.0.9 Cannonballs now correctly deal damage when hitting a ship’s stern. Cannonballs now correctly deal damage when hitting a ship’s sails or hull.
Patch Notes, version: 0.10.0.8
Ahoy, captains! Here’s a small patch with a few improvements. We’re also very grateful for all your feedback and comments on the latest devblog post. One known issue remains in this build, but we’re a
Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-25.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, RPG, Early Access |
| Player tags | Early Access · Pirates · Online Co-Op · Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Crafting · PvE · Exploration · Naval Combat · Building · Sailing · Open World (Steam store community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · Co-op · Online Co-op · Full controller support · Custom Volume Controls · Adjustable Difficulty · Playable without Timed Input |
| Languages | English * , German, Russian, Simplified Chinese, French, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Turkish, Traditional Chinese * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Official site | https://playwindrose.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows® 10 (64-bit) Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-8700K / AMD® Ryzen™ 7 2700X Memory: 16 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA® GTX™ 1080 Ti / AMD® Radeon™ RX 6800 DirectX: Version 12 Network: Broadband Internet connection Storage: 30 GB available space Additional Notes: System requirements are not final at this stage of development. Ongoing optimizations will improve performance across a wide range of hardware. The stated minimum RAM requirements apply to solo and co-op play. If you choose to self-host a server (world), additional RAM will be requ