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Northern Wind is an immersive dungeon-crawl experience paired with our tabletop skirmish mechanics, plunging the players into a spine-chilling adventure, that will decide the fate of a whole Empire!
You will battle a devouring and profane evil with 4 courageous – but unlucky – “heroes”. Prepare yourself for an arduous journey to the top of the blighted Mt. Byōdō.
A dungeon-crawling RPG experience featuring the EC skirmish mechanics.
Standalone game with new elements, but fully interchangeable/fully compatible with the EC skirmish wargame – you can use the Eldfall Chronicles minis and profiles in Northern Wind, & vice versa!
->TWO GAMES IN ONE!
New characters, new enemies.
Signature top-quality miniatures – made with next-gen resin.
Fast-paced, tactical combat, tile-based movement.
Nail-biting quests and challenges, unexpected twists and instances, it will offer dozens of hours of content – endless replayability with a branching story & leveling!
Solo, Coop, PvP mechanics.
—description from the publisher
- Absolutely beautiful game with incredible models and sculpts.
- Models are very easy to assemble and fit seamlessly.
- Tremendous and detailed storybook that tells a fantastic story.
- High quality components and production.
- Potential contender for game of the year.
- The game was a surprising sleeper hit for the reviewer.
- Climbing a mountain and engaging in a relentless battle with demons (Oni)
- Foothills of a mountain, potentially in a winter environment
- Storybook driven with story events unlocking via encounters and intrigue tokens.
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Encounters/Intrigue Tokens — Story events are triggered by running into encounters and intrigue tokens on the map.
- Miniature assembly — The game features numerous detailed models that require assembly, which the host highlights as being exceptionally easy and high quality.
- Quest Log — A 'massive' quest log is present, which is a key component for tracking objectives.
- Storybook/Narrative — A large storybook is included that drives the narrative and unlocks story events through gameplay.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- Um first of all, absolutely beautiful beautiful game.
- The thing that steals the show are these incredible incredible models.
- I mean, the sculptures are just some of the best I've seen in a long long long time.
- This is a huge thing.
- So, you know, this is a real sleeper for me, and uh I'm going to really go through this, and I'm very excited about this game.
- This can easily be a contender for game of the year if it plays out the way I think it does.