Everwind Interview – Aiming To Deliver More Than Just Building

Michał Baraniak: What sets Everwind apart is, first and foremost, the combat system. We’ve invested a huge amount of time into making combat feel dynamic, impactful, and fun, far beyond what you’d expect from typical voxel survival games.

Additionally, exploration plays a key role. Our floating islands are diverse, filled with different biomes, enemies, and wildlife. Each offering unique challenges and rewards, and, unlike games that focus primarily on building, our emphasizes character progression, base development, and engaging combat.

Players have their own customizable flying ship, which acts as both their mobile base and their primary means of exploration. Building exists in the game, but it’s designed to support your journey, not become the main focus. Helping to expand and upgrade your ship and survive in increasingly dangerous environments.

Michał Baraniak: The game will most likely include some additional paid content after launch, but it will focus on delivering substantial new content, for example, a large new gameplay area. That said, we also plan to release free DLCs and updates regularly, so players can expect new content with each major patch.

Michał Baraniak: Our world generation system is very advanced. We can create diverse, naturally looking islands with hills, valleys, cliffs, and an extensive system of underground caves. We put a lot of effort into making sure that the structures generated on the islands look natural and fit well with the terrain. A special feature is our system for generating underground dungeons, which offers players complex and interesting exploration challenges.

On the surface of the islands, there is no liquid water, so there are no lakes or waterfalls. We want to work on this in the future, but at the same time, we are looking for a way to make water behave and look different from other games of this type.

Thanks to the powerful tools of Unreal Engine 5, we have built a highly modular and dynamic procedural generation (PCG) system that fills the world with meaningful content, making each island feel unique, immersive, and worth exploring

Michał Baraniak: Unfortunately, Everwind doesn’t feature a dynamic seasonal system at this time. However, each biome is designed to reflect a specific theme or a season, so players will still experience a sense of seasonal variety. For example, we have snowy biomes that feel like winter, warm lush islands that resemble summer, and others that evoke an autumn vibe.

Additionally, the game features dynamic weather systems, which further enhance the atmosphere and help reinforce the feeling of different seasons across the world.

Michał Baraniak: For now, players will have access to two game modes. The standard Survival Mode, and a Sandbox Mode designed specifically for creative expression. In Sandbox Mode, players have access to every resource in the game, allowing them to build advanced structures and experiment with items that would normally be hard to obtain in survival.

In the future, after the full release, we’d love to introduce a comprehensive modding editor, giving players the tools to reshape the world, bring their own ideas to life, and share them with others. However, that’s still a long way off. Right now, our focus is on delivering the core experience.

Michał Baraniak: For players who have already mastered the survival basics, the main motivation becomes exploring new islands and dungeons, where they can find notes and environmental clues that gradually reveal the background and history of the world of Everwind.

It is divided into vertical layers we call Altitude levels, and progressing through them allows players to access new biomes, tougher enemies, and more hidden pieces of lore. There are no cutscenes or direct dialogue, but instead, the story is told subtly through scattered notes, ruins, and exploration-based discovery.

This approach keeps the focus on gameplay, while still offering a sense of mystery and long-term curiosity for those who enjoy piecing together the world’s past on their own terms.

Michał Baraniak: Yes, Everwind will include a PvP option, but it will ultimately depend on the player or server owner. At launch, we’ll offer a peer-to-peer multiplayer mode for up to 4 players, where one player hosts the session.

During Early Access, we plan to introduce dedicated server support, which will allow for more players in a single world. This willopen up more possibilities for PvP and interactions between multiple airships in one game.

We’ll share more details with the community once the time is right. As mentioned earlier, our current focus is delivering the core version of the game.

Michał Baraniak: Everwind will feature PvP in the form of ship vs. ship combat, but this will only become available after dedicated servers are introduced. It will allow the server to handle all calculations directly. As for in-flight moments, we’re not ruling out the addition of flying creatures or smaller floating islands with enemies (such as pirates who shoot at you).

However, this is still a plan we aim to implement during Early Access, as we continue developing the game together with the community.

Michał Baraniak: Everwind is designed as a long-term, evolving experience where players can continuously develop their characters, refine their builds, and shape their journey over time. Rather than encouraging multiple playthroughs in the traditional sense, our focus is on creating a persistent world that grows with the player, offering new challenges, biomes, and systems as development progresses, particularly during Early Access.

That said, players who enjoy starting fresh won’t be left out. Thanks to our procedural generation system, each world reset results in a completely new configuration of floating islands, enemy encounters, and environmental conditions. This ensures that no two playthroughs will ever feel the same, making replayability a natural part of the experience.

During Early Access, players will likely need to reset their world with each major update in order to access new content. However, we plan to allow players to continue playing on older versions of the game if they prefer to stick with their current progression.

Michał Baraniak: Yes, but they will be added during Early Access. There will be various animals, including capybaras!

Michał Baraniak: Yes, Everwind is planned for current-gen consoles. We’re aiming to launch Early Access on PC in Q1 2026. As for the full release… who knows? It’ll happen when both we and our community feel the game is truly ready.

Michał Baraniak: Everwind features a completely different approach. Instead of traditional wiring systems, we use steam-based mechanics. With our custom steam generators, players will be able to create complex machinery comparable to systems seen in similar sandbox games. The depth and complexity of these mechanics will expand over the course of Early Access. For now, their primary function is to power and operate your airship.