#YEAR WALK GAME SOUNDTRACK FULL#

In practice, the game functions like any number of adventure games: the playable space is cordoned into discrete screens with transition points scattered throughout. There are monsters out in the snow you don’t want to meet.

If a year walker makes it to the church, he or she will see into the future, but the price paid for such a luxury is almost always high.

#YEAR WALK GAME SOUNDTRACK FULL#

People who wish to year walk isolate themselves and refuse to eat or drink for a full day before striking off toward the local church at the stroke of midnight. Here are the basics: Year Walk is a first-person puzzle game based on the Swedish myth of the same name. It’s a gripping, somber, atmospheric, and elegantly-designed game, and everyone should play it. But, Year Walk has an undeniable sense of place. It was dark, it was raining, I had was wearing headphones.

Granted, I was playing Simogo’s latest horror-puzzle-exploration game in ideal conditions. It was dark, I was lost, and the Swedish snow was falling interminably - my heart beat a little faster, I was sweating despite being in bed under a blanket, and I became upset enough to close Year Walk and browse Twitter for a while. The forest around me was changing, and I couldn’t find my way back to my cottage: I was hoping to methodically explore the map, hoping to impose logic onto a shifting, supernatural landscape.

Year walk game soundtrack