Scott from The Controller Online writes: "With the recent rise of the Indie Game we were excited to check out one of Steam’s newest independent offerings, A Valley Without Wind. Arcen Games new action adventure aims to break the mold from which other “MetroidVania” style action games have been cast by being non-linear, dynamically generated and endless. This is a bold attempt to refresh the 2D Action Adventure genre so we were eager to visit the world of Environ, and its Valley Without Wind."
Chris Park: "Postmortem sounds so grisly, doesn't it? I was tempted to call this a retrospective, but that sounds a bit foofy. So here we are. This isn't even a true retrospective, because AI War is still going strong and looks to remain that way for some time.
The time period this postmortem will examine is May 2009 through the end of May 2013."
The Entire Arcen Library is 75% off on Steam until April 22nd, and AI War is part of GamersGate's IndieFort Spring Bundle.
DHGF: It is difficult to explain what kind of game A Valley Without Wind is, the first title is sort of an action RPG/platformer/resource management game. Sort of like Actraiser (congrats if you know that game; you’re probably old too) but with a large amount of additional things to do and pay attention too. A Valley Without Wind 2 is less action RPG and more and action platform jumping game with light RPG elements mixed with a kind of strategy board game. Both are procedurally generated affairs, meaning that the first time you start the game it creates a world from scratch. Create a new world and it will not be the same as the one previously generated.
Pity it was just "meh", I had hopes for this one.