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WHERE WINDS MEET

Developer Everstone Studio

Publisher NetEase

Format PC

Origin China

Release 2024

Over a dozen or so hours we cover a lot of ground in Everstone’s RPG, but it doesn’t feel like adventuring so much as rambling. Rarely do we pick a point on the map, place a marker and head off as the crow flies. Instead, we may as well be obeying the breeze, as we sway between eye-catching sights and curious situations. When our time with the game is over, we don’t necessarily understand how everything works, only that there’s plenty of it, and at no point were we anything less than engrossed.

In the opening region of Qinghe, play seems to be dictated by an overwhelming sense of serenity. Sure, violence erupts now and again, but we can’t help but yearn

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