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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!
Windrose is a early access, pirates and online co-op game
developed by Kraken Express
and published by Pocketpair Publishing (Japan) and Kraken Express.
Released on April 14th 2026 is available only on Windows.
It has received 53,212 reviews of which 46,200 were positive and 7,012 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.5 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 29.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 22.53€ on K4G.
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- 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 required. An SSD is strongly recommended to ensure a smooth gameplay experience.
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The Best Pirate Coop Game we've ever gotten. Maybe 60% of what Blackflag is but with Coop. Pretty much Velhiem but as Pirates which is epic! A Must play for anyone with a group that played Ark, Velhiem, minecraft... It needs Sharks, Water Monsters, Kraken, More Fishing, Whaling, Ways to Sell your silver, gold, fish.. More NPC and non military life fishing boat NPCs NPCs that can do task. IT make healing with 60% of supplies until stopped Sort chest in campfire area... NPCs should be able to do stuff Camera should scroll out with mouse wheel when on ship in F menu top down/iso view Coop shared map/table to share Coop shared pings Map cords Cats, Dogs and more Pets Ship /personal pets Underwater gameplay Shoot land cannons Optional Raids when you use the Large Signal Fire
Amazing game, I've been having tons of fun playing with friends and I'm absolutely loving the crafting systems and very thoughtful QoL this game decided to include early on. Here are some criticisms coming from a place of love since I will absolutely keep playing and attempt to create mods for it going forward. - Character's progression is very overdesigned and detached from the actual gameplay. 90% of what you do in the game does not reward you with experience or contribute in any way in your character's growth. Talents are primarily focused on combat, with many being passives balancing out the lack of attribute importance, since the C, B, A, S, ranks you see on weapons correspond in miniscule increases in damage or HP etc, which are also soft capped. That absolutely hinders player expression when building your character. That leaves the crafting/upgrading part of your weapons and armor the only important factor that determines your access to higher level content. Which I get it, its a crafting/survival game, it should be important. But it's so important that renders the action/RPG/adventure part of the game completely irrelevant. - Content is very static for a sandbox game. I never thought I'd miss radiant quests. And I don't necessarily mean Dr Galen going "another pirate settlement needs your help" every 10 minutes, but even basic repeatable treasure hunts, bounties, cargo deliveries or great animal hunts kept me playing sea of thieves for years going on these quests with friends. - This ties in with my first criticism of the game and its about naval combat. Boarding as it is now, depends entirely on your ability to defeat the enemy ship, which demands from you to have the proper ship to do so, which again ties into being able to craft this ship. You need to have the brig if you are going to challenge 10 level ships, going against them with a ketch is out of the question, not to mention 12-15 ships in the final biome as it is. What I think it would be better to do, is have some customization and depth in designing your ship, being able to board it and challenge it without the need to actually defeat it in cannon combat. Again focusing on player expression rather than overdesigning everything in order to restrict the player and forcing them to craft the bigger boat to get to bigger boats. Let me build and customize a really fast ketch, so I can rush really bigger boats than mine and force them to a boarding action. Let me build a fortress of a ship with a dead slow frigate with 36ers on it, not constrict me to the "Blackbeard variant". I would still need to craft the better boarding gear for my fast ketch, or get the better hull protection for my sturdy frigate while expressing my self as a player towards a playstyle that I can enjoy. Sorry for the long post, I love this game, I've been waiting for a good pirate game forever and I believe this is it. I strongly recommend this game and my criticisms are more like suggestions that I believe could increase the depth and fun of what is starting out as absolutely lovely experience.
Right, I'm not a pro review writer so I'm just going to tell you what I like about this game. +no item durability (what a pain in the ass in survival games) +no inventory weight limit, only x amount of slots +gathering takes some time but isn't quite as ludicrous as in some other games like it (looking at you, Conan Exiles), and you can eventually start buying resources - not all, but most +it's gorgeous to look at - the environments are beautiful and well crafted +combat is challenging but not stupid hard - it's all about learning enemies' attack patterns, and if a scrub like me can figure it out, anyone can +resources are available for building and crafting as long as they're stashed within bonfire range +sailing feels soooo good +the audio design is crisp - everything sounds perfect, from ambience to enemies, your ship groaning when falling off the top of a wave That's just off the top of my head. The thing that mostly annoys me is that NPCs have huge hitboxes and they're always in my way, especially in sea battles when boarding enemies. Naturally at this stage you can expect problems, like randomly getting thrown out of the game, and you lose your buffs whenever you leave a game. Other than that I haven't really encountered many bugs. Only once did I get stuck in quest dialogue, and had to Alt+F4. Overall the experience has been good. It would also be nice if we could customise the colours of our sailors as I seem to be so blind I can't tell them apart from enemies (why's everyone wearing purple?).
Windrose is a simple but genuinely fun pirate survival game. The building mechanics are easy to understand and enjoyable, and there is a nice satisfaction in slowly expanding and improving your base. That said, the resource management can get tedious. The game really needs better quality of life features, especially a way to track how much of each material you still need for crafting or building. By the time I reached the endgame, though, most of that became less important. The ship gameplay is probably the weakest part. It feels very bare-bones, almost like one-fifth of Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag’s naval gameplay. Most of the time, it is just going from point A to point B or boarding other boats for missions. Still, I think there is real potential here if the developers expand the ship mechanics. The sea shanties were definitely a plus, but I wish there were more of them, closer to what Black Flag had. Overall, I had way more fun with Windrose than I expected. For me, it was more enjoyable than Sea of Thieves and Skull and Bones, and even better than the multiplayer experience in Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag. There are still some technical issues. One of my friends could not play the game at all for unknown reasons, which was honestly hilarious and somehow elevated my experience, but hopefully that gets fixed later. Final score: 7/10 A fun pirate survival game with simple building, rough edges, and a lot of potential.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Windrose is currently priced at 29.99€ on Steam.
No, Windrose is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 29.99€ on Steam.
Yes, Windrose received 46,200 positive votes out of a total of 53,212 achieving a rating of 8.54.
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Windrose was developed by Kraken Express and published by Pocketpair Publishing (Japan) and Kraken Express.
Yes, Windrose is playable and fully supported on Windows.
No, Windrose is not playable on MacOS.
No, Windrose is not playable on Linux.
This information about Windrose is not available yet.
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No, Windrose does not support VR.
Windrose offers both single-player and multi-player modes.
Windrose includes Co-op mode where you can team up with friends.
Yes, there is a DLC available for Windrose. Explore additional content available for Windrose on Steam.
No, Windrose does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
No, Windrose does not support Steam Remote Play.
Yes, Windrose is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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1,877
Developer
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Publisher
Pocketpair Publishing (Japan),
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Release
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