Dragonwynde

Learning to fly

Dragonwynde is a PC dragon-flying game about a hatchling learning to use its wings. You start too small to fly, climbing a mountain and sliding down on your belly to glide a little farther with each attempt. That gradual climb from sliding to flight is part of the story: you learn the controls through practice rather than unlocking flight from a menu.

Once airborne, you can perform barrel rolls, loops and corkscrews, make knife-edge turns through gorges, and hover over a ledge before landing. There’s no combat, health bar, death or time pressure. Nothing tries to kill you, and you can’t kill anything.