Windborne merges a dynamic weather visualization with passive collection mechanics, rendering real global wind patterns and precipitation as an animated map where creatures drift in on matching weather conditions. Players spot and gather these visitors at their own pace without timers or penalties, making it ideal for those seeking a meditative, low-pressure experience that doubles as a living desktop background.
About this game
Windborne is a live weather wallpaper and a gentle collection game. It renders global weather as a hand-drawn map — wind streams, rain falls, cyclones turn — and when the right weather arrives, small visitors drift in on the wind for you to spot and collect. No forced interaction, no punishment.
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Hello everyone — Windborne 0.1.1 is now available! This update focuses on making Windborne more comfortable to use as part of your desktop. You can now decide how much screen space it occupies, or collapse it into a compact weather card in the corner. Highlights Custom desktop areas: Choose full-screen, half-screen, corner layouts, or fine-tune the area covered by the wallpaper. Collapse to a mini card: A new button beside Journey turns the app into a compact corner card showing wind conditions for your main and custom locations. 19 Steam Achievements: Discover weather visitors and complete rarity and weather-themed collections to unlock them. New graphics controls: Quality presets, render scaling, and per-display options make it easier to balance visual quality and performance. Improved settings experience: Settings search, automatic saving, first-use guidance, better tray access, and more reliable window activation. Updated ranch artwork: Animals and plants now use a more complete set of animated papercraft artwork across different weather conditions. Fixes and Stability Fixed thin desktop-colored gaps appearing at the sides on some resolutions. Fixed misplaced or unresponsive controls after changing the desktop coverage area. Improved recovery across multiple displays, DPI scaling changes, monitor updates, and desktop-host reconnections. Hardened startup and watchdog behavior so invalid wallpaper windows can be safely rebuilt. Reduced repetitive logging and improved error recovery in release builds without a console. Diagnostics and Feedback The Diagnostics page can now create a privacy-filtered feedback bundle locally. Nothing is uploaded automatically: you can inspect the file first and decide whether to share it with us. Thank you for your feedback and support. We’ll continue improving Windborne through small, evidence-driven updates based on real player experiences.
This update expands Windborne's collection loops and makes the desktop experience smoother. What's new Added the Journey home page, bringing weather, recent discoveries, ranch progress and the next goal into one place. Completed the 215-entry weather visitor collection with clearer discovery timing, Codex details and first-discovery guidance. Expanded the ranch to 21 species with per-placement growth, unlock goals, recent changes and first-placement guidance. Added live day/night lighting and smoother, bounded weather transitions. Added My Places: save up to eight locations, search offline cities, enter coordinates or pick on the map, choose marker icons and colors, and mark a hometown. Yining is now a featured city. Polish & fixes Unified the visual style and Maple Mono CN UI font, and merged Journey/settings access into one clearer button. Fixed text entry, marker rendering and narrow-card clipping in My Places; browser preview saves now work locally. Improved weather caching and offline behavior, progress safety, multi-monitor handling and desktop performance. Thank you for helping us make Windborne calmer, clearer and more reliable.
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