
- 70/100
- Players5 ratings
- 50/100
- Critics1 review
More scores
- Metacritic12 critic reviews
- 54/100
- Metacritic usersuser score
- 66/100
- GameFAQsJust Right
- 3/5
- Player reviews
- 64% positive197 reviews
- Steam Deck
- Playable
- Runs on
- Windows, Mac, Linux
- Price
- US$14.99
Where to get it

2012 · Arcen Games · Action-adventure · Adventure
A Valley Without Wind
A Valley Without Wind is a indie and action-adventure video game developed by Arcen Games. The game was released on April 24, 2012 for the operating systems Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X on Steam. Players play as a random survivor in an unforgiving world that is shaped by the choices the player makes. The setting of the game is a post-ice-age world in the distant future.
- Released
- 24 April 2012
- Platforms
- LinuxWindowsmacOS
- Genres
- Action-adventureAdventureIndiePost-apocalypticStrategy
- Developers
- Arcen Games
- Publishers
- —
- Modes
- Co-opMultiplayerSingle-player
- Perspective
- Side view
- Themes
- Action
- Country
- United States
- Age ratings
- ESRB E
- Languages
- English
- Time to beat
- 13hmain story15hwith extras58hcompletionist
About
A Valley Without Wind is an action-adventure and indie game developed by Arcen Games. The game was released on April 24, 2012 for the operating systems Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X on Steam. Players play as a random survivor in an unforgiving world that is shaped by the choices the player makes. The setting of the game is a post-ice-age world in the distant future. On February 18, 2013, a sequel to A Valley Without Wind was released called A Valley Without Wind 2.
Players say
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The articlegameplay, story, development, reception
Gameplay
A Valley Without Wind is 2-D sidescroller that lets players explore a vast procedurally generated world. Unlike other procedurally generated games the difficulty has a logical progression and there are a checklist and tips to assist the player. The main goal is to defeat the Overlord and save the continent. The player can choose how they want to prepare for the Overlord.
They can do missions to gain new spells and roam the environment to find secret missions and stashes of magical crafting loot. The player can customize their character with different enchants and spells to fit their play style. Also the player can rescue people and make them part of the player's settlement, which allows the player to send them on dispatch missions. Once the player saves a continent from the Overlord a new bigger continent appears.
Reception
A Valley Without Wind received mixed reviews. The game holds a score of 54/100 on Metacritic based on 12 reviews.
Leif Johnson of IGN rated the game a "mediocre" 5.5 out of 10 and stated, "The appeal of its randomly generated settings wears off quickly, the procedural level generation voids much sense of having an impact on the world, and the absence of any kind of compelling story or brilliantly designed levels eventually renders exploration a slog". However, Johnson praised the sheer number of spells and customizations the user has.
Releases by platformdates and regions as published
Editions and related releases
- Followed by
- A Valley Without Wind 2
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