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LostWinds cover art

LostWinds

Frontier Developments · 2016-03-24

Steam

Adventure

Modes: Single player

Releases: May 20, 2008 (Wii), Mar 24, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Dec 21, 2011 (iOS)

Wield the awesome powers of Enril the wind spirit to guide and protect young Toku through this unique platform adventure.

0
playing now
81%
positive of 752 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
85/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
71/100
IGDB user rating (6 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 08:00 UTC (census sample)

LostWinds is a 2008 platform video game developed by Frontier Developments and published for the Wii as a launch title for WiiWare. In LostWinds, the player controls a young boy named Toku and the elemental wind spirit Enril as they travel Mistralis in order to rescue it from the antagonist Balasar, a vengeful spirit.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 34% of 11,312 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 19k–45k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 752 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$1.41-80%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.67 at GameBillet (2024-12-29) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 117 of 169 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

302026-08-11 21:00 — 2 players2026-08-12 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 20:00 — 3 players2026-08-14 12:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 11:00 — 1 players2026-08-17 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 19:00 — 1 players2026-08-18 11:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 18:00 — 1 players2026-08-20 10:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 02:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 18:00 — 1 players2026-08-22 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 01:00 — 1 players2026-08-23 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 09:00 — 1 players2026-08-29 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 08:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$10.00$0.702016-03-242026-08-242016-03-24 — best price $9.992018-01-25 — best price $1.992019-01-28 — best price $9.992019-12-03 — best price $9.992020-06-12 — best price $9.992020-08-26 — best price $8.192020-10-18 — best price $9.992020-12-09 — best price $9.992021-02-03 — best price $9.992021-04-01 — best price $1.992021-06-04 — best price $8.892021-10-02 — best price $9.992021-12-23 — best price $1.502022-05-06 — best price $0.992022-08-19 — best price $1.992022-12-17 — best price $8.122023-03-20 — best price $8.382023-07-13 — best price $9.992023-10-24 — best price $3.992024-01-25 — best price $3.192024-03-31 — best price $8.382024-06-13 — best price $9.992024-08-17 — best price $6.292024-11-02 — best price $8.382024-12-26 — best price $0.762025-02-05 — best price $8.892025-03-27 — best price $1.872025-05-29 — best price $2.002025-08-14 — best price $1.992025-10-29 — best price $1.672025-12-17 — best price $9.132026-02-23 — best price $8.992026-05-07 — best price $1.992026-07-12 — best price $9.992026-08-24 — best price $1.41
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

43112026-05-31 — 24 pageviews2026-06-03 — 40 pageviews2026-06-06 — 31 pageviews2026-06-09 — 23 pageviews2026-06-12 — 43 pageviews2026-06-15 — 31 pageviews2026-06-18 — 21 pageviews2026-06-21 — 18 pageviews2026-06-24 — 29 pageviews2026-06-27 — 23 pageviews2026-06-30 — 17 pageviews2026-07-03 — 25 pageviews2026-07-06 — 20 pageviews2026-07-09 — 20 pageviews2026-07-12 — 25 pageviews2026-07-15 — 13 pageviews2026-07-18 — 30 pageviews2026-07-21 — 16 pageviews2026-07-24 — 24 pageviews2026-07-27 — 22 pageviews2026-07-30 — 19 pageviews2026-08-02 — 23 pageviews2026-08-05 — 18 pageviews2026-08-08 — 15 pageviews2026-08-11 — 20 pageviews2026-08-14 — 18 pageviews2026-08-17 — 15 pageviews2026-08-20 — 21 pageviews2026-08-23 — 31 pageviews2026-08-26 — 12 pageviews2026-08-28 — 23 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

7 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Traditional Chinese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,97035%11

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

Player tags

2.5DCuteIndieShortCasualPuzzleAdventurePlatformerAtmosphericMetroidvania

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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