Night in the Woods
Release: February
Available: PS4, PC, Mac, Linux
A game funded on Kickstarter, Night in the Woods takes place in an anthropomorphic version of small town America similar to Zootopia’s designs. Players take on Mae, a cat who has returned to her hometown of Possum Springs after dropping out of college. Possum Springs has changed due to its local coal mines closing and a mysterious force in the woods creates mystery. What follows is a story of “mental illness, depression, the stagnancy of the middle and lower classes, and the slow death of small town America.” Mae can adventure in similar ways to platforming, but the developers have stressed the game is narrative focused as opposed to gameplay focused. As a crowd-funded game, NitW has a chip on its shoulder thanks to the failures of Mighty No. 9 as well. While I believe in crowd-funding, there is a lot of expectations on these games to be good. That said, NitW looks like the right kind of curiosity to succeed.
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