New Open World Windbound Switch Game Coming August 2020

Windbound is an open world adventure game by Deep Silver and 5Lives Studios coming to the Nintendo Switch on August 28, 2020. In Windbound, things are constantly changing as you play through it. Every time you die, the game shifts elements around, always creating a new unique experience for the player to work through.

You adventure on a personal journey, exploring unique islands and traveling on your boat. Your ship is custom crafted by you and will take you across dangerous waters as you sail from island to island. Each island has its own set of unique animals, landscapes, and challenges to be faced.

You search for and pick up resources from your surroundings and use these to craft various tools and weapons to hunt for food and also upgrade your ship. Once you have depleted the resources available on one island, you then must once again set sail to the next island to begin again.

The developers said the following about Windbound’s main character:

There were a few targets we knew we wanted to hit early on when designing our hero. The families of the 5 Lives Studios team members have a great deal of young daughters and nieces, and this drove us to want to create someone who they could identify with. While the landscape has improved with fantastic protagonists featured in several games today, we wanted to do our part to broaden the landscape of video game heroes.

The game’s graphics are beautiful and the colors are quite vibrant. It has a nice polish to it that feels well done. Initial impressions of the game so far are that stylistically, it has a bit of a Zelda Windwaker vibe to it, but is definitely distinctly different enough to stand out on its own right.

This is definitely a game to check out once it arrives on the Nintendo Switch eShop on August 28, 2020. Let us know your thoughts and whether you’ll be picking this game up in the comments below.