
Resettle the shards of a shattered world in this peaceful roguelite deckbuilder, covering centuries of classical Japanese art. Nurture communities, befriend animal spirits, and shape a new civilization through choices that echo across generations.
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Worlds Upon the Wind is a peaceful roguelite deckbuilder about rebuilding a shattered civilization after the apocalypse. Shape forests, deserts, and ruins through careful planning and resourcefulness, rather than conflict. Guide settlers across drifting world shards, nurturing new communities and weaving new traditions as you restore life to forgotten lands. Embark on a journey of restoration and community in this tactical game for those who prefer to take their time and weigh their choices.

Assemble your deck from hundreds of powerful Glyphs and unique Relics, each offering new strategic possibilities. Use glyphs to transform the environment and manipulate your chances with powerful invocations. Craft glyphs, balance your deck, and develop unique builds to adapt to the ever-changing landscape and challenges.

Face hundreds of dilemmas with no right answers. Keep wildlife at a distance or invite them into your cities? Preserve violent artwork or destroy it? Sacrifice safety for dangerous alchemical experiments, or seek harmony at the cost of productivity? Choices shape the outcome of your expeditions, as well as the contents of your deck.

Explore procedurally-generated world shards filled with different biomes, events, challenges, and opportunities. Every choice shapes the fate of your settlers and grants new glyphs and relics to transform your deck. Every run offers unique gameplay opportunities and insights that unlock new skills for future runs. And every budding community you establish leaves a mark, no matter how small.

Pacify restless spirits haunting the world shards, and befriend 15 unique animal companions through their own questlines, each offering a game-changing ability to help in future runs.

Immerse yourself in a unique visual style that traces the evolution of Japanese art from ancient picture scrolls to the different styles of Japanese woodblock prints. Serene landscapes, gentle music, and classical hand-painted scenes invite you to reflect and savor each moment as you're planning your next move.

If you're learning Japanese, this game offers completely optional kanji learning minigames with thousands of vocabulary and example sentences to complete, deeply integrated into the game, as well as options to display titles in kanji or kana, with dictionary tooltips.
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Exceptional and very unique roguelite with meta progression that feels like it teaches you the game beyond when the tutorial stops. Also it's a gorgeous game.
Wonderful game, very much a different pace to most rogue-likes. It's difficult to fully categorise - a kind of deck-building, episodic civ builder, as although each expedition (run) is self contained the home screen begins to populate with 'visitors' from previously settled territories. As other's have commented, it has clearly been developed with deep affection for its subject matter and serves as a soft cultural education experience without ever feeling pushy about it. Excellent stuff for those that like a slower, puzzle-like approach to rogue deckbuilding.
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Languages: English**languages with full audio support
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Joguei pouco mas já reparei que é um jogo muito bonito e produzido com muita cautela. Propõe uma dinâmica bastante interessante e diferente no loop de gameplay, que faz você se sentir, de fato, reconstruindo a humanidade a sociedade. A arte é lindíssima e a música e efeitos sonoros também impressionam. Joguei pouco mais de uma hora mas foi o suficiente para me convencer da qualidade. Ainda por cima, é bastante barato. Além disso, tem alguns (?, só vi um) minigames para você se familiarizar e aprender japonês. É lindo. Recomendo fortemente!
Great cozy deckbuilder and city builder. This game gives a relaxed vibe with the art style and sound design. The mechanics are very addictive and add more as you progress the story. I am keen to delve more into this game, it has been on my mind since first playing it
I've been really digging Worlds Upon the Wind -- it has so many things I love in a game: deckbuilding, exploring, quests, unlocks, tech trees <3, and yet it still feels so unique compared to other games. Loving it!
Very pleasant. Extra points for keeping my demo save file!
Great game, love the deck building and discovery, and I can even brush up on my kanji! Highly recommended.
Games good, you should play it
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This game is crazy intensive, I've spent 4 evenings playing 6 hours each just to stumble upon impossible goals food+safety 500 each with the only possible location left right in the middle of desert. Probably missed out on an achievement about 100% completing the Shard. Very cool concept, I've enjoyed the game thoroughly and atmosphere is incredible, but I'm drenched in sweat somehow after fighting for my life against hauntings and meticulously planning how to slot everything. Managed to assemble deck with a lot of draw and The Loop card and 40+ relics. They have a lot of synergies and it was very fun to play every card. But I think i've finished playing the game for good, burnout is real. 9\10
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