Early Access pirate game Windrose was generating up to 130,000 SSD write operations per second without players' knowledge. Developer Kraken Express patched the issue on April 30, reducing writes to 20-30 per second.
Windrose hit 1,000,000 copies and over 200,000 concurrent players on Apr. 19, six days after launch, according to its Steam news post.
Windrose passed 500,000 copies in 48 hours after its Apr. 14, 2026 Early Access launch, with the Steam News post also citing nearly 100,000 concurrent players. The r/pcgaming post had 744 points and 231 comments at crawl time.
Windrose reached Steam Early Access for Windows on Apr 14, 2026 with a 10% introductory discount that cuts the launch price from $29.99 to $26.99 through Apr 21. The store page lists Kraken Express as developer, Pocketpair Publishing (Japan) as co-publisher, and early review sentiment at 89% positive from 2,038 English reviews.