Through the Woods

[Ross Scott]

Genre: Horror

Year released: 2016

Ross's rating: Unrated

Link to game:

https://af.gog.com/game/through_the_woods

Free to play: No

GaaS: No

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[TheMG42]

The premise of designing the game around Norwegian mythology was interesting. Some beautiful, mountainous regions in some of the later sections of the game. Mostly a dark forest walking simulator, even though it was clearly trying to invoke something deeper than that. No combat mechanics, but enemy encounters were almost a non-factor. Voice acting was not that great and cutscenes felt weirdly paced and framed. A lot of areas felt unnecessarily dark and lost some of the levels' atmosphere. Ending was kind of upsetting and perhaps one of the few memorable moments in the game. Frame rate can lag at times, loading screens are a bit too long for my liking and I got 2 crashes to dashboard playing this on Vanilla Xbox One.

 

Overall rating: Doubt.