I was already interested in Everwind, an upcoming sandbox RPG heavily styled after Minecraft but with first-person combat that can't help but bring The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim to mind, after seeing its trailer and successful Kickstarter pitch. When the demo started flying up the Steam Next Fest charts, I grew more curious. Everything clicked when I realized that the publisher of this thing is Bohemia Interactive, best known as the maker of DayZ and Arma 3 among other sandbox icons (the much less iconic Ylands is probably the closest parallel here). Thoroughly intrigued, I had a run of the demo, and I'll be damned, I think we've got something here.
Everwind, by developer Enjoy Studio S.A., s a co-op-equipped adventure about gathering resources, crafting gear, and exploring scattered islands across the air and sea using your upgradeable airship base. It is extremely Minecraft-flavored from the get-to. Break and place blocks, craft tools like axes and pickaxes, repair your gear, slap on some armor, and chow down on some mushroom soup. Here's a radical change of pace for survival game openers: punch skeletons, not trees. And by punch, I mean wildly swing a lead pipe in their general direction.
