The Stillness of the Wind

released on Jan 30, 2019

"One by one, everyone left the once bustling village for the city. Everyone, except Talma. Now approaching the end of her days, she maintains a simple, solitary way of life, surviving, subsisting, tending to her homestead and her goats. Develop your own personal routine as you care for your farm and your animals. Tend to your goats, make cheese with their milk, collect eggs and cook meals, grow vegetables and barter with the travelling merchant who brings increasingly disturbing letters from your family in the city. A follow up to the critically acclaimed Where the Goats Are, The Stillness of the Wind is a quiet rumination on life and loss."


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I guess the wind in my game was too still it didn't pick up. I didn't finish it. This one is not for me.

a story of a world in decay told through a farm and old lady in decay receiving letters from long tossed out family members

the clunkiness of taking care of the farm was pretty frustrating, but that quickly gave way to "who even cares about this farm, i can't do anything anyway, the world is dying", so i mean... i dunno if there are different endings if you do a better job of taking care of the farm, but the one i got was pretty sad i guess!

i dunno maybe i just wasn't in the right mood for it, that happens sometimes

Streamed my entire playthrough of this. Slowly managing a farm that fell apart even slower. A lot of story plays out over letters you receive from family and friends. Bad things happen. Not much good. I managed to keep one goat.

I really enjoyed how the atmosphere was in this game. The Stillness of the Wind tells a story, featuring an aging woman left alone on the farm, after her relatives have one by one left for the city.

The story is told through letters that the woman receives, so it was a little harder for me to connect to the characters that the story was about.

I was not a fan of the slow moving main character who had to walk far away from the farm to collect things. It's still a great game and worth playing.

Sad and depressing game with a strong message.
Very slow based gameplay that in the end it's not that important.
Soundtrack is very minimalistic but very good.
Not everyone will like it, but after the 3-4 hours it took to complete it, I can recommend it if you into this kind of games and don't mind slow gameplay.