Okay, so this game is a little hard to explain. The creators of A Valley Without Wind describe their game as a procedurally-generated action adventure game featuring exploration and platforming in a vibrant 2D world. These things are all true, but they don't really communicate how satisfying it feels to fight and climb through the procedurally-generated 2D world, steadily accumulating enough resources and experience to kit your protagonist out with enough awesome abilities to liberate the land from a generic overarching evil overlord.

It plays sort of like Castlevania if Dracula's castle was built by algorithms instead of architects. You have a home town that you can customize and improve by collecting resources from the world, which you explore by opening a big map and selecting where you want to explore next. A Valley Without Wind has a unique and slightly unsettling visual aesthetic, but if you can get past the weird visuals I think PC gamers who loved games like Castlevania: Symphony of the Night will get a kick out of A Valley Without Wind. You can play it now on for $15.