Planned Release Date: To be announced

About This Game

Illwind

Hoist the colors and take to the skies in Illwind, an open-world survival adventure set in the perilous Skylands. As a bold member of a pirate airship crew, your survival hinges on your wits, your skill, and the strength of your flying fortress. Raid enemy vessels, plunder hidden treasures, and chart your legend across the boundless heavens.

Key Features

⚓ Captain Your Flying Fortress
Outfit and upgrade your mighty airship with an arsenal of weapons, tools, and gadgets. Choose wisely, for your ship is both your lifeline and your deadliest weapon.

⚔ Clash Among the Clouds
Repel hostile fleets, skyriders, and monstrous predators with a fully customizable array of cannons, fire-spitters, and cunning traps. Take the fight to the enemy’s deck or sink them to the depths below.

🌍 Chart the Uncharted
Set your sights on a sprawling world of floating isles, derelict wrecks, and thriving skyland settlements. Unearth forgotten treasures, barter with merchants, or claim what’s rightfully yours with powder and blade.

📜 Forge Your Legend
Choose your role as a daring rogue, a cunning tactician, or a steadfast defender. With unique abilities and a ship tailored to your style, the story of your skybound exploits is yours to write.

⛅ Weather the Storms
Keep your ship and crew afloat amidst violent tempests, dwindling supplies, and relentless dangers. Survival demands courage, resourcefulness, and no small amount of luck.

Planned Updates

We’ve got grand plans to make Illwind the ultimate pirate adventure. Here’s a peek at what’s coming to the horizon:

• ⛵ Skyways and Scoundrels: An expansive world map filled with trade routes, treacherous territories, and unexpected encounters.

• ⚡ Wrath of the Heavens: Advanced weather systems, from raging lightning storms to turbulent wind currents that test your mettle as captain.

• 🌳 Untamed Skies: Wild, untrodden isles teeming with dangerous beasts, rare treasures, and secrets waiting to be uncovered.

• 🏚️ Deep in the Bowels: Cavernous networks below the surface, filled with hidden artifacts, perilous traps, and subterranean foes.

• 🧑‍✈️ Rogues and Renegades: Full character customization to craft the perfect sky pirate, from their attire to their battle scars.

• ⚓ Ports of Plunder: Thriving settlements and floating rigs where you can barter, recruit, and revel in the spoils of your conquests.

• 🔧 Tools of the Trade: More ways to outfit your airship with deadly weaponry and ingenious utilities for every encounter.

• 💰 Booty and Barter: Expanded trading systems, cargo hauls, and resource-harvesting mechanics to line your coffers.

• ☠️ Curse of the Damned: Undead adversaries, cursed isles, and supernatural perils lurking in the shadows of the Skylands.

• 💀 Disease and Doom: A robust health system, with simulated organ injuries, plagues, and medical challenges that bring new depth to survival.

• 🚗 Wheels on the Ground: Ground vehicles to extend your adventures below the clouds, from scavenger wagons to battle-ready rovers.

• 👑 Crown and Cutlass: Political intrigue and alliances with kings, mayors, and shadowy factions vying for control of the skies.

• 🗡️ Legends Among Us: Renowned figures—heroes, villains, and rulers—who shape the fate of the Skylands and challenge your claim to glory.

• 📰 Tales of the Tides: A weekly in-game newspaper chronicling your exploits and world events, where your actions make the headlines.

• ⚔️ Rum and Rebellion: Crew management with morale systems, mutinies, and onboard rivalries.

• 🛡️ Boarding and Bloodshed: Expanded boarding mechanics for thrilling deck-to-deck combat and enemy crew confrontations.

• 🔥 The Burning Sky: Strategic hazards like flak zones, long-range torpedoes, and environmental challenges to navigate or exploit.

• 🎨 Trinkets and Treasures: New decorations and cosmetic options to make your airship as unique as your legacy.

Are you ready to hoist your flag and face the ill wind? Your destiny awaits among the clouds.

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Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

Scenes of violence, thievery, robbery, smuggling, and general criminality is portrayed. The game also features potentially sensitive content concerning slavery and other political and socio-economic inequities experienced in an 1800's steampunk setting.