Early access survival games can be dangerous for players, and not just when it comes to murderous monsters. As games get patched and updated over years of early access development, the consequences for players can occasionally be dire: corrupted saves, lost items, overwritten bases, and sometimes flat-out world wipes that sets everyone back to square one.
Windrose is the new early access survival game hotness, and today its developers, Kraken Express, wanted to reassure players that on the long voyage to a 1.0 release, they don't need to worry about losing all the piratey progress they've been making.
Probably.
"We stated it before, but looks like it is worth repeating: NO WIPES are planned!" Kraken Express said today in its Discord. "We do our best on tech side to allow all the future updates to keep your progress intact all the way to 1.0 release."
Still, this is early access, and the developer quickly caveated that statement:
"Of course shit happens," Kraken Express said, "but our plan, intentions and our current implementation of the game is that we can roll out major updates while keeping everyone'...


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