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One by one, everyone left the once bustling village for the city. Everyone, except Talma. Now approaching the end of her days, she maintains a simple, solitary way of life, surviving, subsisting, tending to her homestead and her goats.Develop your own personal routine as you care for your farm and your animals. Tend to your goats, make cheese with their milk, collect eggs and cook meals, grow vegetables and barter with the travelling merchant who brings increasingly disturbing letters from your family in the city.A follow up to the critically acclaimed Where the Goats Are, The Stillness of the Wind is a quiet rumination on life and loss.Show More. Features. Tend to your homestead: Breed and look after your goats, make cheese from their milk, grow vegetables, water your plants, collect eggs, scare off the birds.

It’s a hard but simple life of peaceful sub. Get news from your family: The travelling merchant brings letters from your family and friends and with them a view into a city that feels both very far away and as if it threatens to wash away the wo. Choose how you spend your days: It's up to you how you spend Talma’s time each day and what your routine will be.

Focus on your chores, wander in the desert, reminisce about the past or draw patterns. Barter for supplies: Trade cheese and other items in return for hay for your goats, seeds to plant, fables, exotic items and shotgun shells, whilst exchanging conversation with the travelling merchant.

Submitted on 9/2/2019 Review title of SergeantDocDifferent strokesI loved this game, playing it on a quiet afternoon. It doesn't hold your hand by any means and I think that fits well with the overall narrative.

The Stillness of the Wind, a farming sim meditation on life and loss, is now on Steam. By Andy Chalk news The minimalist farming sim promises an intriguing narrative twist.

The story is a little hard to follow at times and very open to interpretation but I think the emotions it evokes are practically universal.It's not a very long game, there aren't really any achievements and it doesn't have much replay value. It's simply an art piece that will make you feel something and was absolutely worth the time spent. Submitted on Review title of Meowsifer4462A surprising indie gem of quality and feelsGrabbed this game without really knowing what to expect aside from a cute simplistic style. And while it does have that, it also has a suprising amount of emotional undertow as the game progresses.The letters you receive as the silent little grandmother are beautifully immersive, and work as a heartfelt way to explore her long life before the current days of goat-milking and 'Did my seed sprout yet' routinesSuper cute game, so I'm super happy I stumbled upon it! (Side note - it played perfectly for me, so I'm guessing the previous issues have been patched?).

Submitted on 3/2/2020 Review title of RessikgnulBoring and unfulfillingI like slower games, and walking simulators. Played this coming off of Edith Finch and Old Man's Journey. Highly not recommended. The gameplay mechanics have no impact in any way - more like clicking things to see what happens, like a child's game. Story comes out in about 7-10 letters and a few bad dreams, then it just ends and shoots you to the desktop. Didn't need to be 3 hours. Could have maybe been 30 minutes.

Also, 'Memory of God'? Your sh.t stinks a lot worse than you realize. I would highly recommend avoiding and playing anything else.

Games are, more often than not, escapist power fantasies about taking on a superhuman role and doing things that would be impossible in any other context. That makes The Stillness of the Wind all the more striking. It’s a game that gradually takes away your choices, inexorably leading you to your own final breath.

In The Stillness of the Wind, you play as Talma, who tends to her goats and her garden on a remote patch of land. She’s living through her final days as she always has, as a subsistence farmer living off the crops she can raise and the cheese she makes from her goats’ milk. It’s the end of the world.

Developer Memory of God says The Stillness of the Wind begins with a kind of sandbox-like freedom, where you’re given the ability to explore the game’s world and its systems however you like. But as time moves ever forward, Talma starts receiving increasingly upsetting letters from her friends and family who have moved away from her village to live in the big city.

The trailer below provides a glimpse at The Stillness of the Wind’s stark but charming beauty. Plus, there’s goats. Goats are great.

As the world around Talma darkens, you’ll establish daily routines – feeding the goats, milking, cheese-making, and trading for goods from a traveling merchant. He’s the one who brings you news from afar.

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Memory of God’s Coyan Cardenas says The Stillness of the Wind’s main themes are “nostalgia, a sense of loss, and home,” and that he hopes players feel a “golden memories” kind of nostalgia while playing.
“For me, The Stillness of the Wind is about developing a more connected sense of ourselves,” he said.

The Stillness of the Wind is out now for PC on Steam and itch.io. It’s also available on the App Store for iOS devices, and on the Nintendo Switch. It’s one to check out if you need a quiet break from the more action-driven, hectic pace of most big games now. Every so often, it’s nice to have some thoughtful, melancholy meditation.