You can play with the keyboard or with a controller. The town is bustling with details such as fallen leaves that kick up as you run through them, pigeons and squirrels on the power lines, jack-o-lanterns that appear on stoops on Halloween, and an array of Possum Springs residents hanging out on doorsteps and rooftops. The game’s most obvious strength is its illustrated art style with a 2D paper cutout effect that emphasizes the crisp shapes and black shadows making up this world.
They inhabit a sprawling, lively locale that you get to explore as Mae passes her first days back at home-jobless, aimless, and increasingly anxious over how much this once-familiar place has changed.
These anthropomorphized characters have a cool cynicism that keeps them from being too cute. Her friends Bea, Gregg, Angus, and Germ are an emo crocodile, a fox in a leather jacket, a dapper bear, and a bird in a baseball cap. And although Mae has been away for a while, her reputation as a troublemaker with anger issues is still a source of gossip among the locals, some of whom aren’t happy to see her back.Īs you’ve probably noticed from the screenshots, Mae is a cat. The mine has closed down, leaving many residents out of work. Her parents are struggling to keep their house after a poor financial decision. Her friends have jobs and adult responsibilities. But Possum Springs has changed in her absence. Night in the Woods is a modern-day story about Mae, a college dropout who returns to her small mining town yearning for the familiar comforts of home. This artsy narrative game from indie developer Infinite Fall got a lot of attention leading up to its release, and I’d been looking forward to it ever since playing a demo in 2015. That’s how I feel about Night in the Woods. Ever been to an art museum? You know that awkward feeling when you pause to look at a painting-swipes of color on canvas with no obvious subject-and as you’re standing there twisting your head and squinting, trying to figure out why the heck this paint-spill is hanging on the wall, the person next to you gasps in breathless wonder: Wow.
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