A Valley Without Wind

The Creators Of AI War Bring You...

A 2D sidescroller without a linear path. An action game with tactical combat and strategic planning. An adventure game that lets you free-roam a vast, procedurally-generated world. A Valley Without Wind defies genre stereotypes. Unlike other procedurally-generated games, you also get a logical progression in difficulty, plus helpful tips and checklists to guide your travels (should you need them).

Choose for yourself how to prepare to face the vastly stronger Overlord. Complete a variety of missions to earn arcane rewards, or roam the wilds to uncover secret missions and stashes of magical loot. Customize your characters with unique combinations of enchants and spells that change how you move, jump, and fight. Or rescue people and bring them back to your settlement, recruiting them to help you in return.
You choose how to play, and the world adapts around you.

Features

  • Travel alone or with friends across an ever-expanding world of dangerous creatures, powerful magic, high technology, and mysteries.
  • You have choice. The world of Environ is procedurally generated, and lets you go anywhere you see -- including right into the overlord's keep at any time. (Good luck with that.)
  • Environ is endless. When you save one continent from an overlord, a larger and more complex continent appears.
  • The game adapts to how you play: as you demonstrate your proficiency, monsters upgrade accordingly. Killed 100 bats?  Okay, time for... bats on fire!
  • Crazy amounts of character customization. Combine a multitude of spells, enchants, and equipment to create specialized character builds.
  • Play as a long line of brave adventurers. It's not a question of IF your character is going to die, but WHEN.  Any character that dies is permanently lost, but you keep all your inventory, enchants, and general progress in the game.
  • Become a community leader. Rescue NPCs, have them join your settlement, and construct buildings for them -- they may return the favor and help you.
  • Be a clever problem-solver. Challenges have more than one solution, each with its own pros and cons.  You get to figure things out rather than just jumping through a set of hoops.
  • Difficulty levels give exactly the challenge you want, from casual to hardcore on both platforming and combat independently.
  • New updates are arriving all the time packed with additional content, improvements, and more.

The game has hit version 1.0 and is available now via Steam, the Arcen Store, and other digital distributors.

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Arcen Catalog Steam Sale, IndieFort Spring Bundle, and Full Indie Summit

What a busy month it's been! (Alright, year.) Upcoming Game reveals aside, we have several new developments to share during this week alone:

Steam Sale: Entire Arcen Catalog 75% Off
Steam's put the whole lot on sale this time, and I mean everything. For the next week, you'll find the entire Arcen library slashed down to very low prices. Sale ends April 22nd.

IndieFort Spring Bundle
Looking for something a little less Arcen-centric? AI War is in the latest deeply discounted GamersGate bundle, teamed with Sanctum, Zigfrak, Fortune Winds: Ancient Trader, and Underrail (currently in alpha). The offer is available now through April 21st, and will add bonus content as such as AI War and Sanctum DLC if specific sales milestones are reached.

Full Indie Summit
I'll be spewing my nonsense at the Full Indie Summit in Vancouver, BC this Saturday (April 20th). More specifically, I'll be giving a talk on indie game marketing plans. If you're local to the area and are interested in checking it out, definitely stop by and make sure to say hello. The event goes from 10 AM - 4 PM, and admittance is dirt cheap ($10 Canadian) -- plus I hear there's a mixer or two going on afterwards. Should be good fun!

New Game Page Landings
I've set-up a host of new fan pages for Shattered Haven, Exodus of the Machine, and Skyward Collapse -- for those interested in receiving game updates on sites like Twitter, Reddit, and others of the sort.

Shattered Haven
@ShatteredHaven
/r/ShatteredHaven
On Facebook
On IndieDB

Exodus of the Machine
@ExodusOTMachine
/r/ExodusOfTheMachine
On Facebook
On IndieDB

Skyward Collapse
@SkywardGame
/r/SkywardCollapse
On Facebook
On IndieDB

Press and Video Coverage
Plenty to share with the teasing of our two new titles, along with coverage still coming in hot from our recent releases as well.

Skyward Collapse
PC Gamer: AI War developer announces Skyward Collapse, a turn-based 4X god game
Indie Retro News: Developers of AI War announce Skyward Collapse : turn-based 4x simulation god-game
PCGamersN: Skyward Collapse is a turn-based, 4x peacekeeping mission from AI Wars’ Arcen Games
VG247: Skyward Collapse is a turn-based 4X god-sim in the works at Arcen Games
RPS: Arcen’s Next Game Is Skyward Collapse
Strategy Core: A Godly Conundrum
Games.on.net: Arcen Games’ Skyward Collapse combines 4X, god sim and diplomacy
GamersBook: Another new title from Arcen Games
Gamer.no: Unique god game from AI War-makers (Norwegian)
Riot Pixels: AI War developer will release an unusual "simulator of God" (Russian)
Playground.ru: Arcen Games has announced turn-based god sim Skyward Collapse (Russian)
GameLand.ru: Skyward Collapse - another project from the developers of AI War and A Valley Without Wind (Russian)
Gry-Online: Skyward Collapse - creators of AI War announced (Polish)
Tyrant & Ogre: Arcen Games Announces New Game, Skyward Collapse
GamePlanet: A Valley Without Wind studio announces turn-based god game

Exodus of the Machine
Polygon: Arcen Games new title Exodus Of The Machine is coming this year
GameConnect: Arcen Games announces Exodus Of The Machine
GamersBook: Exodus of the Machine announced

Shattered Haven
TierraGamer: Exclusive Interview with Arcen Games - Creators of Haven Shattered (Spanish)
Gert Lush Gaming: Shattered Haven Review
Broken Analog: Shattered Haven Review (9/10)
Co-Optimus: Shattered Haven Co-Op Review (3.5/5)
Game Debate: Shattered Haven Review (7/10)
Edge Online: Shattered Haven review (6/10)
Z-Giochi: Shattered Haven Review (6/10) (Italian)
GameSpot: Shattered Haven Review (5/10)
Hooked Gamers: Shattered Haven Review (7/10)
IndieGameMag: Shattered Haven Review (65/100)
IndeeGames.cz: Shattered Haven Review (4/10) (Czech)
Game4Me: Shattered Haven PC Review (74/100) (Dutch)
IndieGameReviewer: Shattered Haven Review (2/5)
JustPressStart: Shattered Haven Review
Cross Platform Gamers: Shattered Haven Review
Technology Tell: Shattered Haven launches for Mac/PC
InsideMacGames: Enter A Shattered Haven at MGS
Northernlion: Let's Look At: Shattered Haven! (Video)
AtherGames: This Can't Be Real! - First Look at Shattered Haven (Video)
TekkorGJC: Shattered Haven - Quicklook (Video)
KingIsaacLinksr: King's Shattered Haven (Video Series)
MrAmnesiaGameplay: Shattered Haven (Video)
Scheele Plays Shattered Haven (Video)
TheCometCE: Indie Spotlight - A Valley Without Wind (Video)
Psenci: Testing Testing - Episode 50 - Shattered Haven (Video) (Spanish)
NewGames357: Shattered Haven (Video) (Russian)

Valley Series
Gamasutra: Design Debate: Risky Rewards or Rewarding Risk?
Y3K Games: A Valley Without Wind 2 Review (Video)
Infognito: A Valley Without Wind (Video Series)
Weatherford Sons: A Valley Without Wind 2 - Let's Play (Video)
Stry's 1000 Game Steam Stream - [A] Valley Without Wind (Video)

AI War
ChthonicOne: Playing AI War with The Irritable Canadian (Video)

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A Valley Without Wind Beta v0.540 (OSX)

A Valley Without Wind Beta v0.540 (OSX)

Nov 7, 2011 Demo 0 comments

**Newly added Intro Mission packed** Environ has been shattered in the wake of an unknown cataclysm, with only small pockets of humanity left in its wake...

A Valley Without Wind Beta v0.540 (PC)

A Valley Without Wind Beta v0.540 (PC)

Nov 7, 2011 Demo 0 comments

**Newly added Intro Mission packed** Environ has been shattered in the wake of an unknown cataclysm, with only small pockets of humanity left in its wake...

A Valley Without Wind v0.5 (Beta) -- OSX

A Valley Without Wind v0.5 (Beta) -- OSX

Sep 26, 2011 Demo 0 comments

The Mac demo for Arcen Games' title A Valley Without Wind, a procedurally-generated 2D side-scrolling adventure of limitless proportions (currently in...

A Valley Without Wind v0.5 (Beta)

A Valley Without Wind v0.5 (Beta)

Sep 26, 2011 Demo 0 comments

A demo for Arcen Games' title A Valley Without Wind, a procedurally-generated 2D side-scrolling adventure of limitless proportions (currently in public...

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Kron_the_Mad
Kron_the_Mad Feb 20 2013, 4:00am says: Online

So, have the first game on Desura, there's a lot of press about getting the second one free but I can't even see it on the Desura store. Where'd A Valley Without Wind 2 go?

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fortune_p_dawg
fortune_p_dawg Feb 20 2013, 8:24am replied:

You can download the full version from Arcen's home page.

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fortune_p_dawg
fortune_p_dawg Feb 19 2013, 11:53am says:

Awesome! Can't wait to dig into Valley 2 when I get off work... :-P

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darkman945
darkman945 Dec 23 2012, 8:13am says:

anyways for those that took the ticket simply post a comment:its working for me and i took it,none else must take it,coz it wont work:something like that OK :)

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darkman945
darkman945 Dec 23 2012, 8:09am says:

Ok if the developers accept this-for those who want to try the game here is a GET ME NOW ticket,basically,
if u played the demo this unlocks you the full game /some might ask why would i make a giveaway/
i do it for the people that like the game and dont have money to get it so anyone who wana try it here is the ticket:8720-82-20-95 BUT if this doesnt work im very sorry-i bought this for those that dont have moneys so HAVE FUN playing....tam tam taraaam tam tam taaa

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Xangi
Xangi Nov 29 2012, 9:32pm says:

Guys, at this point we're not expecting perfection, can we please just try the beta? It's going to have issues, we know, it's a beta. Holding off on releasing it for longer will only make people less interested.

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Xangi
Xangi Nov 9 2012, 3:18am says:

I hope we see that AVWW2 beta soon, it's basically my highlight of the month.

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LesserAngel
LesserAngel Nov 20 2012, 11:38pm replied:

I know right? The anticipation is killing me...

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Alexnabby
Alexnabby Oct 13 2012, 2:45pm says:

This is the best game I've ever played yet! Keep up the Great work! I recommend this to any people who might like crafting, adventure and fighting games! It has all 3 since I've played get it now! 8-D

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@huwtaylor No official linux support yet, but we presume it should work well on WINE like all our games do!

May 16 2013, 5:34pm by arcengames

Skyward Collapse will launch May 23rd for $4.99 on Steam and on our website. T.co @SkywardGame

May 16 2013, 4:50pm by arcengames

RT @IronManMode Benefit sick kids and get a free Steam key for Tidalis T.co

May 15 2013, 4:24pm by arcengames

@BuckSexington Thanks! Forgot to ask, would you like a press copy of the game?

May 15 2013, 4:48am by arcengames

@BuckSexington Thanks for the post! A note that May 23 is official launch for Skyward Collapse, not beta (no public beta this time around).

May 14 2013, 8:52pm by arcengames

@rhamorim No idea yet on GOG, we've not spoken to them about it yet. We certainly hope so, but we're kinda flying fast at the moment.

May 13 2013, 4:38pm by arcengames

@rhamorim Just like Shattered Haven -- no keys!

May 13 2013, 4:31pm by arcengames

Just submitted for @IndieMEGABOOTH at this year's PAX Prime. Hope we get selected, had an awesome time last year.

May 13 2013, 4:23pm by arcengames

@rhamorim @SkywardGame Not doing a public beta for this for a few reasons; there is a very large private alpha, tho. 23rd for all stores.

May 10 2013, 4:17pm by arcengames

@rhamorim @SkywardGame Same as all our other games!

May 10 2013, 4:15pm by arcengames

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