Windrose
Kraken Express
Embark on a PvE survival adventure in the Age of Piracy. Fight on land and sea, solo or with friends. Build, craft and explore vast open world filled with dark secrets. Master soulslite combat and take on challenging bosses, command your ship and plunder unspoken treasures!
Year 1
Apr 14, 2026 - Nov 11, 2026
110 changes
Windrose entered Early Access on April 14, 2026, and subsequent patches improved save protection, combat and server support. The developers also previewed Ashlands, a major update announced for a coming winter release; its features remained plans rather than shipped content in the reviewed material.
- Early Access: The launch made the game available alongside an official soundtrack and a Supporter Bundle containing the soundtrack and wallpapers.
- Save protection: Steam Cloud Saves received revised storage, backups and migration, including automatic backups and a recovery interface for damaged saves.
- Combat and sailing: Patches improved halberds and greatswords, NPC ship sailing and formation behavior, and projectile hit registration.
- Dedicated servers: Linux server support gained Docker images, giving server operators another deployment option.
- Ashlands preview: The planned fourth biome, story and faction additions, ship customization, new shanties and a boss were described as work in progress, not as live features.
- April 30 maintenance: The update added a Force Relay Connection option, reduced idle CPU and disk use, and added building pieces and seedbed variants.