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Windstorm: The Legend of Khiimori gallops onto early access in September
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Whereas the previous games appear to have been set in relatively modern times, The Legend of Khiimori takes things back to 13th century Mongolia, where your horse rider character is a courier tasked with transporting things across an open-world wilderness.
Image credit:Aesir Interactive
Windstorm: The Legend of Khiimori | Reveal Trailer | Early Access 2025Watch on YouTube
Windstorm: The Legend of Khiimori | Reveal Trailer | Early Access 2025
As you can tell, the focus here is really on the - ahem - horseplay, with an apparently simulationist feel to the riding and environmental hazards. The most tantalising bit of announcement hype-talking is that Aesir claims that the horse behaviour and animation is aiming for “unparalleled realism”, with the virtual mounts developed with the input and approval of equine experts if you’re a horse person after some reassurance they will indeed feel like horses. They’ll look a good bit like horses too, thanks to some shiny Unreal Engine 5 visuals for horse and landscape alike.
Windstorm: The Legend of Khiimori willhit Steam early accessthis September, with Aesir saying to expect a “very early stage” of development at first, before the team work on implementing additions and improvements based both on community feedback and a forthcoming roadmap. I’m pretty intrigued to at least check it out myself, being both a lover of riding aimlessly around on virtual horseback and having fallen deep into Death Stranding’s Zen-like literal walking simulator.
