$9.99Windward Sail your own course
Windward is a multiplayer sailing sandbox in a large procedurally generated ocean, where you and co-op friends trade, quest, fight pirates, and grow towns to unlock better ships. Simple controls and short sessions make it an easy shared voyage with room to split up or team up.
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Sail together and grow your corner of the sea
You start near friendly towns and sail further out as your ship and crew improve. Together you can trade goods between growing towns, take quests to help them prosper, hunt pirates, and clear quick combat instances for better loot.
Basic attacks fire on their own, so most of your attention goes to steering, positioning your broadside, and timing skills. Friendly AI ships can follow and assist you as your reputation grows, which helps a small group take on tougher foes. It is a relaxed loop: sail, earn gold, upgrade parts, unlock a faster Schooner for exploring or a heavy Ship of the Line for fights, then push into harder waters.
A casual ocean built for short shared sessions
Windward keeps the pressure low. Controls work with WASD or mouse alone, difficulty can be tailored, and you can jump in for ten minutes of deliveries or stay for hours of exploring and pirate hunting.
The world is procedurally generated, with dynamic towns, random loot crates, and AI factions bound by the same rules as you. You can make a private world for co-op friends, join public servers, or sail solo, and you can customize hull, sails, and emblem colors found as loot. It is a pleasant, repetitive rhythm of sailing back and forth in fair weather, best enjoyed with company and conversation alongside.
Good to know before you sail?
Can you play it solo or with just co-op friends?
Yes. It is designed for both solo and cooperative play, and you can generate your own world, host your own server, or join public ones. Solo sailing works, though teaming up makes the short loop of trading, questing, and fighting pirates more social and helps against stronger enemies and bosses.
What do you actually do out on the water?
You sail between towns, deliver cargo, take fetch, hunt, and defense quests, loot crates, trade to help towns grow, and fight pirates. Towns respond by offering better upgrades and ships, and pushing further from your start brings harder foes and better rewards.
How does combat and ship progress work?
Your ship is your lifeline. Basic attacks trigger automatically while you steer and use skills such as cannon volleys. You improve through gear parts, captain skills, and new hulls, from fast Schooners for exploration to Ships of the Line for firepower, with sail, hull, and emblem colors to find.
