"WINDROSE SALES TOP 1 MILLION UNITS IN 6 DAYS"

0:00Shepard, promise me you'll tell them to subscribe for a free content. Now just imagine being a publisher, being a developer, and then putting out a game in early access and guess what, ladies and gentlemen, in the first six days, you sell over a million copies. Now you probably think it to yourself. What game could you possibly be referring to while obviously Avatar, the last element. Shepard. All right, my fault. That's not. I don't even know why I said that. Anyways, we're getting into a pirate game, ladies and gentlemen, that isn't this set and the age of piracy in the video game is called Wind Rose. Now it's currently the eighth most played game on the Steam platform and is only on PC. Once again, it's an early access. Just came out April 14th of this year. Of course, when you look at the early access time, basically the roadmap of early

1:03access for this specific game, I think it's going to be one to three years before the actual game comes out. Now, the main reason for this is because they want 15 to 70 hours of main storyline, but to be fair, a lot of people playing this game for a specific reason, and that's because of it being more of a PvE survival adventure. So you still could get a lot of hours out of this specific game because as far as the settings, you have three biomes, 30 procedural islands, 90 plus handcrafted points of interest. So it's not like, oh, they're just giving you, I guess this technically is a vertical slice, but it's not like they're giving you little for your engagement, right? It's not like this game is not respecting your time. They're definitely respecting it. It's as far as the four offering. Just don't expect it until like one to three years out. Now, of course, selling 1.1 million plus copies in early access. I mean, at this point, somebody needs to tell the

2:06gaming publishers and developers that hold up now. Your game, your game monitors will already be out because of course, right now, people are really gravitating towards it. As you look at the Steam numbers, and you have 106,000 people playing right now, 24 hour peak of 196,000 and a 24 hour peak of 220,000. Analytic dreams video Spotify to see the video along with the audio because I basically just brought it up for you to see for yourself. So you know, this is number speak for itself. And that's why I brought this up because this is an early access game, ladies and gentlemen. Shepard. Just look at the state of gaming. Look at that. What is going on? So that is the state of wind roads right now being the eighth most played game on PC in early access is a huge accomplishment. But of course, over here in the torres, Massifing getting into the gaming and music IPs that notoriously affected masses, you know, we have to talk about the sales. So for this specific game, the price is $29. Now, of course, it depends on the listing, you know, Steam has a lot of sales

3:10and things that nature back as of the original price is $29.99. It's only on the PC platform. When you look at it, as far as the gameplay, you have three playable ships or arcade style naval combat, aim and fire cannons, boarding transitions to made a melee combat. And a lot of people enjoy the seamless ship to land gameplay. Of course, a lot of comparisons are made about Black Flag. That is a assassin crew game from, you know, from the assassin crew franchise. But when you look at the game and totality, it's basically a full-based building system, multiple architectural styles in PC systems as far as workers basic implementation. So it's nothing too complex. And of course, you have factions plus reputation mechanics. Now, a lot of people say that it's souls like mechanics, meaning stand them up, stamina, management, dodging, lock on retargeting, parrying, no stamina costs and can stun enemies. So the enemies in this specific game, the early access module, because I want to keep saying this early access and

4:12I give you a boatload of content, pun intended. All right, my fault can't help myself. Enemies is wildlife, undead, rival pirates and bosses. So I think the main thing when it comes to this specific game is the multiplayer aspect. As you can play up to, you can have up to eight players on this specific game. And as far as the recommendations, people recommend to have four players for performance reasons. Now, you could have dedicated servers, self-hosted, but you could also play this fully solo offline. So I think that's a W. Because there's too many multi-player games that come out, the touristy effect of masses. And then as soon as the player basically gets minimal to none, right? It's close to none. As far as people playing the game, they just shut down the whole game and there's no way they access it. But I think the offline ability to play solo, I think that leads you to be able to actually enjoy it without the

5:12indication that's going to be taken away. Now, of course, there's early access. So they could take it away whenever I guess, but when it comes to the success of the game, I don't think they want I don't think they want to stop this high train to abruptly, right? So it's going to it's out indefinitely. Because of course, it's going to work towards the main version of the game. But once again, like I said earlier, it's going to take one to three hours hours. It's going to take one to three years. So as far as right now, when you look at the player estimates, as far as the early access, it probably would take you 12 to 90 hours. I know, I know what you're saying. You're like, hold on now. Shepherd. I know. That's a lot. But guess what? It depends on how much fun you haven't in the particular game. Once again, it's multiplayer. There's a lot of things you could do in a specific game. It's not the full scope of the game. But of course, you could do a lot of things in it to where you can either spend as little or as much hours you want to in this specific game. Because once again, it does respect your time. So when it comes to the actual day one peak,

6:12of course, I talked about 69,000 concurrent players that already broke that seven days ago. Having 222,000 concurrent players, excuse me, all time peak seven days ago of 222,000 players. And when it comes to the concurrent, it has 106,000 as of right now. Now, obviously that's a big deal. And of course, the million copies, the million plus copies sold in under six days. I mean, that's also a monumental accomplishment. It was number one on Steam at one point, number two globally. And of course, when it comes to the pre-launch, a lot of people were looking forward to the specific game as they already had one million plus wish list. Now, of course, that brings me into the publishing and development of this game. Because the marketing strategy has been beyond a maculant. So if you don't know, the developers of this game is cracking express, formerly win rows, crew slash crosswind crew. A small team of 15 to 60 people. I cannot say there's location at all. So I'm just going to let

7:15this drive us read it out. And we're going to go from there because we're in the world. It's beckoston based. Use beckoston. So use beckoston is where this development studio is based. And of course, this is their major debut title, primarily known for this project. And a lot of people who's been looking forward to it because it's previously explored free to play MMO concepts before shifting to pay co-op survival. And then of course, ladies and gentlemen, can't forget about the publishing studio as cracking express is a self publishing publisher, of course, with pocket pair publishing. Now, when you look at pocket pair, safe to say pocket pair is known for a very interesting nintendo kerfuffle. What is that kerfuffle? You might ask, um, ladies and gentlemen, they're known for power shepherd. Just look at the state of gaming like what is going on? And of course, it's not a bad thing, right? Over here, we love power. But does nintendo you guys see that's the problem. You already know nintendo's trying

8:20to find some type of pirate excuse to have a rip off of this specific game because you're like, hold up now. We are already trying to in jail as far as all the lawsuits in the world towards power world. So you already know that cracking express is probably not integrated with no, no, no, pocket pair publishing is probably not integrated, uh, standings with nintendo. Let's just put it like that. But anyways, the known for power, which of course was a huge survival here, another survival here. And with this specific game going crazy as far as the million plus under six days, it's estimated that it's already made 30 million dollars as far as gross. Now, of course, with this game being in early access, we don't want to be too harsh on this. So those are the, those are the sales, the objective sales of an early access game. But of course, like you see on the screen right now, analytic dreams video Spotify. We do have review round those for the early access. So IGN gave this a seven out of 10, basically saying, uh, quote, with this snappy ground combat and excellent sound design, render a win rose has made a strong

9:27impression on me at its early access release. Particularly when it comes to polish, this feels more like a finished game than a beta. And while the story and progression cut off a bit abruptly, there's still more than 80 hours of stuff to do. If you want to see everything that's currently available, you guys. So safe to say he enjoyed the game. Now, let's get into other reviews. That's just not too many early access. Um, game heroes gave this an 85 out of 100 saying, quote, don't be fooled by when roses early access banner currently adorning is theme page. This is as good as any full indie release on any platform today, while it will earn an official final score once fully released when rose comes out of the early access gate strong within easy 85 out of 100.

10:28And of course, last but definitely not least bullet haven gave it 8.4 out of 10 saying, quote, a thrilling content rich demo that makes this one of 2026's most anticipated early access launches. And of course, with that being said, that was that was that was the review. They basically said open world was polished. So, uh, and so's like, so's light combat. Now, I know a lot of studios hate that. Every time you say so's like, so's like, they look at their PR team and they say to themselves, you guys, I know they ain't just saying what we just literally put them the PR statement for them not to call it a so's like, like they do that a lot. If you didn't know in the gaming industry, they do not like their games to be compared to so's like, why? I have no idea. I don't know if they're hating on so's games. I don't know if they just don't like don't compare us to them. We got our own thing going in to be it plays exactly like a so's like so. So if you don't know in the gaming industry, they do not like when it's compared to a so's like or a so's like. So those are the review round that is the review roundup of when rose. I believe when it comes to the

11:32one million sales and under six days, that's the biggest takeaway from my observing of my notes and just just the different views and sales that I've been seeing, especially in the gaming industry, this is not no small fee. This is a humongous a monumental fee, especially for early access game that you don't even know when it's actually going to come out. Like it could come out a year from now. We can come out three years from now. Look, that's what we have no idea about as of right now with when rose being at early access. It's still the eighth most played game on steam and of course is one of let me get their names again. It's one of crack nickspress and pocket pairs is one of the biggest accomplishments, especially in the survival multi player field and essaying a lot because they also are known for power. So with that being said, click my link tree in my bio. Let me know click my link tree in my bio. Totally messed that outro. Anyways, click my link tree in my bio. Let me know one of my social medias. What do you think about when rose as far as the co-op open world pirate

12:36survival adventure game? And if you've played it on PC, what is your favorite aspect of it? And even though as in early access, do you believe it could be a contender for game of the year?