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The Wind Road 紫塞秋风

甘肃嘉元数字科技有限公司 · Phoenix Game · 2020-07-09

Steam

ActionAdventureIndieRPG

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Jul 09, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

"The Wind Road" is an ARPG real-time combat game, constructing a martial-arts world based on the ancient Silk Road under the background of a fictional era.

The Wind Road 紫塞秋风 is a 2020 Action, Adventure, Indie and RPG game priced at $29.99, with an estimated 1,000,000 .. 2,000,000 owners and Mixed (69% of 6819 reviews).

0
playing now
69%
positive of 6.8k reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
1,000,000–2,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$29.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 11:00 UTC (census sample)

The Barbarians of Grey Wolf have invaded the Silk Road for hundred years! Now they have sent troops to Shazhou with a purpose to capture the important site of Longyou, threatening the safety of tens of thousands of common people. At this time, the Great Karma Scripture emerges and becomes the key to reverse the fate of Shazhou and even the entire Longyou trade route. The Barbarians are strictly preventing the monks (Scripture Escorts) from sending the Scripture to the Imperial Court, while all the forces in Jianghu who covet the Scripture's secret also go into action. The character's task is (Storyline via IGDB)

Trailer

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Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 17 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 15% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (4,475 reviews).
  • · Top 6% of 27,701 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-28

Estimated sales: 137k–307k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 6,825 total reviews — how this is computed.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
3.0k3.0k20202026Week of 2020-07-01: 3,030 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1,445 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 171 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 101 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 77 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 61 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 31 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 82 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 60 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

402026-09-15 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 11:00 — 1 players2026-09-20 19:00 — 2 players2026-09-22 02:00 — 1 players2026-09-23 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 14:00 — 1 players2026-10-03 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 06:00 — 2 players2026-10-06 14:00 — 4 players2026-10-07 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 11:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
9001Jul 2020Apr 2025Jul 2020 — avg 900 · peak 4,851Sep 2020 — avg 36 · peak 137Nov 2020 — avg 19 · peak 72Jan 2021 — avg 21 · peak 146Mar 2021 — avg 12 · peak 39May 2021 — avg 10 · peak 31Jul 2021 — avg 12 · peak 44Sep 2021 — avg 8 · peak 29Nov 2021 — avg 7 · peak 29Jan 2022 — avg 6 · peak 20Mar 2022 — avg 6 · peak 21May 2022 — avg 33 · peak 185Jul 2022 — avg 11 · peak 40Sep 2022 — avg 9 · peak 25Nov 2022 — avg 6 · peak 26Jan 2023 — avg 7 · peak 23Mar 2023 — avg 8 · peak 35May 2023 — avg 6 · peak 17Jul 2023 — avg 8 · peak 26Sep 2023 — avg 5 · peak 15Nov 2023 — avg 4 · peak 17Jan 2024 — avg 7 · peak 74Mar 2024 — avg 7 · peak 26May 2024 — avg 4 · peak 13Jul 2024 — avg 4 · peak 13Sep 2024 — avg 3 · peak 10Apr 2025 — avg 2 · peak 7

▲ +1 avg players vs prior month — Apr 2025

Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$29.99$20.992020-07-092021-02-152020-07-09 — best price $26.992020-07-16 — best price $29.992020-11-26 — best price $23.992020-12-01 — best price $29.992020-12-22 — best price $23.992021-01-05 — best price $29.992021-01-29 — best price $20.992021-02-15 — best price $29.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
68.3%
earned "Stroll"
10%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

2 supported languages: Simplified Chinese, English

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2020-07-09 (Steam store data)

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

RPGIndieActionPuzzleAdventureSwordplayOpen WorldSouls-likeMartial ArtsSingleplayer

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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