Skyrim Meets Valheim, Zelda in Gorgeous New RPG

This upcoming RPG on Steam is promising a lot, but can it deliver on goals as grand as these?

Are you a fan of the ethereal, otherworldly aesthetic of The Legend of Zelda? Do you love Skyrim’s RPG-focused mechanics? And do you love chopping down trees? Y’know, like in Valheim? Pretty sure you chop down trees in that one.

In that case, you might be fond of today’s latest upcoming RPG on Steam; Windhelm.

No, I’m not talking about the location in Skyrim. Windhelm is an action-adventure RPG from developer Gavin Norwood and publisher NorwinLabs LLC.

In Windhelm you play as Garth, a young explorer "who is determined to choose his own fate as a jack-of-all-trades", as he sets out on a quest to save his father.

The devs behind the game state that due to its "procedural world generation", every playthrough will be different, and will include multiple different challenges in the form of "dungeons, multifaceted enemies, a crooked King, and [Garth's] own family’s hallowed past".

If you ask me, that sounds like a pretty big swing for such a small dev team, which I think may be comprised of only two people.

We should be able to see whether or not the game can live up to all this sometime soon, although… exactly when said “sometime” will be is still a little up in the air.

As stated on Steam, Windhelm was supposed to receive a demo on August 9. In fact, if you search for Windhelm through Steam, a separate page for its demo does appear.

However, clicking on it merely redirects you to Windhelm’s main page. Not sure what’s going on there, but hopefully it’s something that either the devs or Steam can figure out relatively soon.

Here’s hoping the demo does prove me wrong however, because I’d very much like to see this small little dev team succeed.