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Winds & Leaves

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60%Game Brain Score
Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, atmosphere
Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, story
78% User Score Based on 27 reviews
Critic Score 62%Based on 3 reviews

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About Winds & Leaves

Winds & Leaves is a single player open world management game with a fantasy theme. It was developed by TREBUCHET and was released on December 8, 2021. It received mostly positive reviews from both critics and players.

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78%Audience ScoreBased on 27 reviews
graphics3 positive mentions
story2 negative mentions
  • Beautiful and immersive visual and audio design with a relaxing atmosphere.
  • Unique and engaging gameplay focused on planting and exploration rather than combat.
  • Well-designed open world with satisfying progression and a sense of presence.
  • Controls and VR interactions are awkward, clunky, and difficult to master, especially climbing and grabbing.
  • Steep and frustrating onboarding/tutorial experience that can deter players early on.
  • Performance issues and hardware compatibility problems reported on various VR headsets.

  • graphics

    10 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    30% positive mentions, 70% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The graphics feature a stunning, well-executed art style with a beautiful color palette that creates a relaxing and immersive atmosphere. While not realistic, the visuals are praised for their excellent design and seamless integration with the audio and gameplay. Performance may vary on high settings but remains visually impressive and comparable to acclaimed titles like Journey.

    • “It's very relaxing and has a great art style with a beautiful color palette.”
    • “At first sight, the visuals alone blew me away and gave me hope for stress ease, and after the initial struggle and confusion with some unclear instructions and direction, the gameplay became immediately healing.”
    • “Beautiful visuals & sounds just like Journey.”

  • gameplay

    10 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    30% positive mentions, 40% neutral mentions, 30% negative mentions

    The gameplay offers a deeply immersive and healing experience, driven by exploration and atmosphere rather than mechanical challenge, though it is occasionally hampered by unclear instructions and frustrating VR interactions like the grip mechanic. While the core loop of planting trees can feel tedious, the sense of being in another world is highly praised. Some stability issues were also reported during extended play sessions.

    • “At first sight, the visuals alone blew me away and gave me hope for stress ease, and after the initial struggle and confusion with some unclear instructions and direction, the gameplay became immediately healing.”
    • “This can be frustrating gameplay-wise, but the tradeoff is that I found the game to be incredibly immersive and would feel during my play sessions that I was in a different world instead of a video game, which in my opinion is the greatest compliment you can give a VR game.”
    • “Not in the sense of mechanical challenge - what I mean is that you learn about the world and how things work by experiencing the world, intuiting things, and trying things out.”
    • “The gripping mechanic is straight-up janktacular.”
    • “The core gameplay loop of planting trees across the wasteland is honestly pretty tedious, but the game is carried hard by the sense of immersion, atmosphere, and exploration.”
    • “Unfortunately, the gameplay due to poor VR interactions brings the experience down (unlike Journey where the gameplay flows naturally with the game).”

  • story

    4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 50% neutral mentions, 50% negative mentions

    The story is generally seen as confusing and underdeveloped, with players wishing for more backstory and clearer narrative elements. Some users hope additional plot details will be revealed later in the game. Overall, the lack of a strong, coherent story detracts from the experience.

    • “Looks like there could be a nice game hidden here, but the lack of a tutorial, horrible controls, poor performance even with an RTX 3090 in 80 Hz, and confusing story - I gave up and refunded.”
    • “The only thing I could wish for is a bit of backstory, but perhaps that comes later than I am.”

  • optimization

    4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 50% neutral mentions, 50% negative mentions

    Optimization is a mixed aspect, with some users experiencing poor performance even on high-end hardware like an RTX 3090, while others note that lowering quality settings notably improves performance. However, control issues and lack of tutorials also detract from the overall experience.

    • “Looks like there could be a nice game hidden here, but the lack of a tutorial, horrible controls, poor performance even with an RTX 3090 in 80 Hz, and confusing story - I gave up and refunded.”
    • “The game looks great on all 4 quality settings, and there is a noticeable performance improvement on the 'low' setting if you need to use that.”

  • atmosphere

    4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    75% positive mentions, 25% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The game excels in creating a deeply immersive and atmospheric VR experience, offering a beautiful, contemplative environment focused on exploration and restoration. While its unique atmosphere strongly enhances the experience, the repetitive gameplay may not appeal to everyone.

    • “A very unique VR experience that nails immersion and atmosphere, but definitely will not be for everyone.”
    • “The core gameplay loop itself of planting trees across the wasteland is honestly pretty tedious, but the game is carried hard by the sense of immersion, atmosphere, and exploration.”
    • “Winds and Leaves is a beautiful and atmospheric game, where you can spend your time wandering around, replanting trees to bring a barren world back to life.”

  • stability

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The game demonstrates excellent stability, running smoothly on the Vive Pro 2 with Vive wands without issues.

    • “Runs great on Vive Pro 2 with Vive wands.”

  • grinding

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    Grinding in the game, primarily through planting trees across the wasteland, is considered tedious and repetitive. However, this is balanced by the immersive atmosphere and engaging exploration that keep the experience enjoyable.

  • music

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The music, along with ambient sounds and sound mixing, is praised for being excellent and enhancing the overall experience.

    • “The ambient sounds, sound mix, & musical soundtrack are all excellent.”
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62%Critics’ scoreBased on 3 critic reviews
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Play Times

2h Median play time
2h Average play time
2-2h Spent by most gamers
*Based on 1 analyzed playthroughs
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Winds & Leaves is a open world management game with fantasy theme. Common tags for Winds & Leaves include 3D, farming, indie, exploration, nature and others.

Winds & Leaves is available on PC, PlayStation 4, Virtual Reality, Windows and others.

On average players spend around 2 hours playing Winds & Leaves.

Winds & Leaves was released on December 8, 2021.

Winds & Leaves was developed by TREBUCHET.

Winds & Leaves has received mostly positive reviews from both players and critics. Most players liked Winds & Leaves for its graphics but disliked it for its gameplay.

Winds & Leaves is a single player game.

Similar games include Shape of the World, Shores of Loci, The Last Clockwinder, Windlands, Garden of the Sea and others.