Windbound takes Breath Of The Wild out onto the open sea

There’s all the time a much bigger raft. At least, that’s the way it goes in Windbound, which demonstrated some pretty open ocean boating in a brand new gameplay trailer throughout at the moment’s Not-E3 festivities. First introduced two months again, 5 Lives Studios’ subsequent game is a sail ‘n’ survive with some critical Zelda vibes, set to land on Steam’s shores in a bit over two months.

Kicking off The Escapist’s Indie Showcase at the moment, Windbound is a nautical survival romp from Satellite Reign builders 5 Lives.

Pop-out gliders? Flashy, over-the-shoulder archery? Glowing blue lights and environmental puzzles? Cor, this all appears very Breath Of The Wild, doesn’t it? Bring within the boating, and also you’ve additionally floated a bit little bit of The Wind Waker into the combo. That’s wonderful, although – emulation however, we don’t get many Zelda games right here on the house pc. Besides, so far as vaguely RPG-ish motion adventures go, Windbound does look fairly pretty.

It’s not like Windbound hasn’t roped in a couple of concepts of its personal, both. Key amongst them is that raft, which appears to develop from little greater than a canoe to a full-on floating home worthy of Kevin Costner’s Waterworld. There’s a seemingly endless ocean of islands, every providing their very own beasties and environmental challenges to tackle earlier than hopping off to the subsequent. There are hidden ruins and story threads to dig up, certain – however by my reckoning, all a game like this actually wants to supply is a beautiful pirate-free ocean to float about in.

Windbound goals to set sail for Steam on August 28th for £25.

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