You can make an ax, hammer, and shovel to mine special ingredients and use them to craft new weapons and gear. The crafting in Windbound is mostly fine. I can’t think of any good reason why you can’t switch between the two freely. Which is strangely difficult when you’re standing on your boat, as the game doesn’t like to allow you to highlight the mast. You have to dismantle the mast every time.
Insanely, you can’t just lower your sails and row. But the wind blows in one direction for a long time usually, so you can find yourself having to row to make progress. You start with just being able to row but you can craft sails too. The sailing, as I mentioned, is dreadfully slow.
Windbound‘s main attractions are sailing, crafting, survival, and combat. Not only can runs take upwards of 6 hours, but things can also get so slow that having to start over after slogging your way through a long trip isn’t something that many will want to do. I think this was a great choice, as this game never seemed to me like it needed to be a rogue-lite. You also get to keep everything on you, save for your boat, which is destroyed. If you select this, combat will be easier and you get to restart the chapter you’re on instead of being kicked back to the start of the game. To its credit, Windbound has a non-rogue difficulty called story. From here, you do the exact same loop four more times but with new biomes being added. Then you sail through a portal and find yourself in the next chapter. You sail forward while braving hazards here before finding an obelisk that allows you to spend some of Windbound‘s sea shard currency on blessings, which are equippable perks. Once there, you construct pathways and use Kara’s necklace on an object which teleports her to the first interlude level. Once you do, you then head toward a distant structure marked by a golden light. You craft a boat and use a magical oar the tower grants you and set off to find the others. Naturally, you need to find the other two, which requires making a boat and getting there by sea. It won’t take you long for you to find your first tower which fills in one of three icons. You grab items, which leads to you getting new crafting recipes, you hunt local wildlife, and you take in the sights. When you’re thrown into the first of these, you don’t know what to do on the island you find yourself inhabiting. The general structure of Windbound is that the game is broken up into five chapters.
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