Developer/publisher Parity Games
Format PC, PS5
Origin Iceland
Release 2022
This isn’t the first time this year we’ve started a game by picking up a powerful magical artefact normally wielded by a now-absent mentor. But this 17th-century Icelandic adventure, created by a team of former CCP alumni, is as far from Chicory as it’s possible to get – aside, that is, from its protagonist’s insistence that they’re only temporarily deputising. Something, the portentous introductory text tells us, is stirring here, and “this time it’s not just the weather.”
Before we get to the something, let’s start with where here is, since that’s what stands out most about Island Of Winds. Dreitill, a starkly beautiful fjord set beneath glowering skies, is where stern-faced Brynhildur calls home. She lives what seems a…
