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A Valley Without Wind cover art

A Valley Without Wind

Arcen Games · 2012-04-24

Steam

ActionAdventureIndie

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Apr 24, 2012 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Apr 24, 2012 (Mac), Apr 24, 2012 (Linux)

You choose how to play, and the world of Environ adapts around you.

A Valley Without Wind is a $14.99 Action, Adventure and Indie game released in 2012, estimated to have 100,000 .. 200,000 owners, with a Mixed review sentiment (60% of 520 reviews).— census verdict as of 2026-09-20

0
playing now
60%
positive of 521 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
70/100
IGDB user rating (5 ratings)
15h
time to beat (IGDB)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$14.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 16:00 UTC (census sample)

A Valley Without Wind is an action-adventure and indie game developed by Arcen Games. The game was released on April 24, 2012 for the operating systems Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X on Steam. Players play as a random survivor in an unforgiving world that is shaped by the choices the player makes. The setting of the game is a post-ice-age world in the distant future. On February 18, 2013, a sequel to A Valley Without Wind was released called A Valley Without Wind 2.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 6 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 100% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 20% of 27,667 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 21k–42k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 521 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.39 at Steam (2016-07-25) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
4420142026Week of 2014-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2014-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2014-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2014-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2015-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 14:00 — 1 players2026-09-26 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 12:00 — 1 players2026-09-30 20:00 — 1 players2026-10-02 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 11:00 — 1 players2026-10-04 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 03:00 — 1 players2026-10-07 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 00:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 16:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$14.99$2.392015-01-012024-03-262015-01-01 — best price $3.742015-01-19 — best price $3.742015-03-23 — best price $3.742015-06-11 — best price $3.742015-08-03 — best price $8.992015-11-25 — best price $2.992015-12-22 — best price $2.992016-02-05 — best price $3.742016-03-21 — best price $2.842016-05-23 — best price $2.692016-06-23 — best price $2.542016-07-25 — best price $2.392018-06-21 — best price $3.742018-07-24 — best price $3.742018-10-15 — best price $2.992018-10-30 — best price $2.992018-11-21 — best price $3.742018-12-20 — best price $3.742019-01-31 — best price $3.742019-06-26 — best price $2.992019-10-23 — best price $3.742019-11-26 — best price $3.742019-12-19 — best price $3.742020-01-23 — best price $3.742020-02-27 — best price $3.742020-04-16 — best price $3.742020-05-08 — best price $3.742020-06-08 — best price $3.742020-06-25 — best price $3.742020-07-27 — best price $3.742020-09-21 — best price $3.742020-10-29 — best price $3.742020-11-16 — best price $3.742020-12-22 — best price $3.742021-01-11 — best price $3.742021-02-11 — best price $3.742021-03-08 — best price $3.742024-03-26 — best price $2.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1102026-05-30 — 2 pageviews2026-06-03 — 6 pageviews2026-06-07 — 3 pageviews2026-06-11 — 2 pageviews2026-06-15 — 4 pageviews2026-06-19 — 2 pageviews2026-06-23 — 2 pageviews2026-06-27 — 4 pageviews2026-07-01 — 3 pageviews2026-07-05 — 1 pageviews2026-07-09 — 0 pageviews2026-07-13 — 2 pageviews2026-07-17 — 2 pageviews2026-07-21 — 2 pageviews2026-07-26 — 2 pageviews2026-07-30 — 0 pageviews2026-08-03 — 0 pageviews2026-08-07 — 2 pageviews2026-08-11 — 2 pageviews2026-08-15 — 3 pageviews2026-08-19 — 0 pageviews2026-08-23 — 3 pageviews2026-08-27 — 3 pageviews2026-08-31 — 5 pageviews2026-09-04 — 1 pageviews2026-09-08 — 5 pageviews2026-09-12 — 1 pageviews2026-09-16 — 3 pageviews2026-09-20 — 2 pageviews2026-09-24 — 2 pageviews2026-09-28 — 4 pageviews2026-10-02 — 1 pageviews2026-10-06 — 4 pageviews2026-10-08 — 3 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
45.8%
earned "Innocence Lost!"
10.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opOnline Co-opLAN Co-opCross-Platform MultiplayerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)6,3742%98

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

2DCo-opIndieMagicActionAdventureOpen WorldPlatformerRogue-liteRoguevania

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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