Night in the Woods

Night in the Woods is a single-player adventure platformer released for Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch. The game was released for Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, and PlayStation 4 on February 21, 2017. The Xbox One port was released on December 13, 2017, while the Nintendo Switch port was released on February 1, 2018. An IOS port was released on September 9, 2021. Developed by Infinite Fall, a studio founded by the game designer Alec Holowka who also composed the music of the game, the animator/illustrator Scott Benson and Bethany Hockenberry who wrote the story. Secret Lab, an Australian studio, built the game's narrative engine and has developed the iOS version of the game.

It is a story-focused exploration game in which players control a young woman named Mae, who recently dropped out of college and has returned to her hometown to find unexpected changes. The game was funded via Kickstarter, where it eventually earned over 400% of its US$50,000 funding goal.

A companion game titled Longest Night was released in December 2013 by Holowka and Benson, along with co-writer Bethany Hockenberry. In December 2014, a second supplemental game was released, titled Lost Constellation.

An extended version of the game, titled the Weird Autumn edition, was released for PC platforms, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on December 13, 2017, featuring new content not seen in the original game, as well as the supplemental games. The Nintendo Switch port was also released on February 1, 2018. Night in the Woods received notable critical praise, mostly for its story, dialogue and characters.

Plot
After dropping out of college, Mae Borowski, a 20 year old cat, goes back to Possum Springs, her old neighborhood, but she realizes that things aren't the same since the last time she's been there.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) A really well fleshed-out story for a really simple game. Despite the art style, the game's story is really dark and complex.
 * 2) Your choices actually matter and can affect the storyline.
 * 3) Numerous replay value, as you can earn several different endings depending on your actions, mainly based on which of your friends you spend the most time with.
 * 4) Memorable characters, the main protagonist Mae is a really fun character to play with, as well as her friends Gregg, Bea, Gregg and Germ.
 * 5) Gorgeous art design, despite being kinda simplistic. The autumn colors are very vibrant and the character and building designs are cartoon-like and look as if they came from a storybook.
 * 6) It tackles a lot of current world and social issues beautifully and subtly without smooshing it directly into the players' faces.
 * 7) There are several fun mini-games that blend really well with the story, such as the Pierogi Toss and and the Band Practice minigames.
 * 8) The band practise songs are replayable, meaning if you screwed up one of the sessions, you can replay it again the next day (There's also a way to replay the songs at the same day).
 * 9) The Weird Autumn Edition introduces tons of new content, including but not limited to the reveal of Jeremy "Germ Warfare" Warton's family members, Gregg's female cousin Jen Lee and a new song that is entirely playable by just Mae herself in her attic bedroom.
 * 10) The supplemental games are added for free into the base game as part of the Weird Autumn Edition update.
 * 11) The game runs really well on low-spec PCs and is very well-optimized.
 * 12) * A dating sim version of the game, called Love In The Woods, is currently being developed by a small team consisting of Reddit fans of the game. It even received approval from Scott Benson himself.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Mae can be unnecessarily mean sometimes.
 * 2) As all 31 achievements for the game are hidden, you must find a way to unlock them by yourself, which can become troublesome if you want to achieve 100% completion.
 * 3) Considering getting all of the doodles for Mae's journal is one of the achievements, you can not get all of them in a single playthrough.
 * 4) There's no chapter selector, and there's only one save state file, you will have to back up your save files if you missed something.
 * 5) The story, while really great, had a rushed ending that kind of made the game feel incomplete.

Trivia

 * There's an unfinished intro cutscene which was scrapped probably because the game wasn't meant to have cutscenes. It can be found through the game data folder on PC.
 * There's a scene of Gregg and Germ playing a skateboarding videogame, referencing Tony Hawk's Pro Skater.
 * A physical release was meant to be released in 2018, but currently there's no news about it.
 * Zoë Quinn (best known for their involvement with the Gamergate Controversy) openly accused the co-creator of the game Alec Holowka of sexual assault on Twitter with zero proof at all. As a result, their followers mass-harassed him to the point where he committed suicide after being unable to handle the massive amount of hate hitting him. Ironically, the Zoe Post (which kickstarted the controversy) had actual proof against Zoe, while the allegations they made did not.

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