'Please, let us cook more': Windrose devs aren't ready to give players a release date yet

‘Please, let us cook more’: Windrose devs aren’t ready to give players a release date yet | PC Gamer Skip to main content Open menu Close main menu PC Gamer THE GLOBAL AUTHORITY ON PC GAMES US Edition UK US Canada Australia Subscribe Sign in View Profile Sign out Search Search PC Gamer Games Hardware News Reviews Guides Video Forum More PC Gaming Show PC Gamer Clips Software Codes Coupons Movies & TV Magazine Newsletter Affiliate links Meet the team Community guidelines About PC Gamer PC Gamer Magazine SubscriptionWhy subscribe?Subscribe to the world’s #1 PC gaming magTry a single issue or save on a subscriptionIssues delivered straight to your door or device From$1Subscribe now Don’t miss these Survival & Crafting I’ve already played the demo of this co-op pirate survival game for 7 hours, but the boisterous sea shanties my crew sings keep me coming back for more Survival & Crafting ‘We couldn’t even have imagined this’: Co-op pirate survival game Windrose has been wishlisted over 1 million times RPG I applaud this gacha game for ditching anime characters for puppets, but it still can’t escape the pitfalls of a post-Genshin Impact world Roguelike The devs of a promising Slay the Spire-alike are delaying their game to Dodge and Roll away from Slay the Spire 2’s launch: ‘You’ll be playing it, we’ll be playing it, everyone will be playing it’ Survival & Crafting The latest Steam Next Fest features a pile of Palworld-likes as witches and airships battle over the creature-collecting survival subgenre Survival & Crafting Valheim’s creative director is still ‘dedicated on Valheim every day’ in addition to his new co-op dungeon crawler: ‘We love making games so much that we want to make more games’ MMO Everything we know about Crimson Desert RPG Clockwork Revolution: All the key details on InXile’s steampunk FPS RPG Adventure One of my most anticipated indie games finally has a release date, almost 4 years after its initial reveal RPG The dev behind my top upcoming RPG is a Hungarian chef who thought ‘if not now, then when?’ and learned coding from scratch to make his dream ‘eurojank’ masterpiece Adventure The Witch’s Bakery gives me all the fuzzy feelings of eating a fresh croissant on a warm spring morning Adventure ‘We never had plans to update Peak at all’: Aggro Crab reveals that it doesn’t want ‘to be a studio that works on one game forever’ Gaming Industry DayZ creator calls to ‘normalize delaying games,’ that consumers can show Xbox and Sony ‘that delays are okay’ and, oh, ‘Personally: don’t preorder games, folks. 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The trailer shown today for IGN Fan Fest, while boisterous as always, doesn’t give any indication of when the game will be out, however. Windrose – Official Trailer | IGN Fan Fest 2026 – YouTube Watch On “Guys, I know many of you hoped for the release date reveal today, and we understand your passion—trust me, we are so eager to lock in the date and announce it to you as well,” the development team posted in the game’s official Discord about an hour after the new trailer appeared. “But now is not the time to do it.” Related articles ‘We couldn’t even have imagined this’: Co-op pirate survival game Windrose has been wishlisted over 1 million times I’ve already played the demo of this co-op pirate survival game for 7 hours, but the boisterous sea shanties my crew sings keep me coming back for more Capture the heart of hectic sea battles in upcoming pirate themed survival crafting adventure, Windrose Noting that the full version of the game “could be several times bigger in c