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There's an undeniable sense of mood and setting to this game, one that covertly seeps beneath your skin and becomes a part of your mind. Anyone undertaking the tradition is said to see strange creatures during their ritualistic walk, an experience the game Year Walk replicates extraordinarily well. No spoilers here!Īnalysis: The concept of a year walk is a Swedish tale where participants deny themselves food and drink on certain days of the year in exchange for a glimpse into the future. You're going to have to explore and see what you can see. There are several interactive contraptions you can mess around with, but their purpose isn't immediately clear. Clues are often handed to you with no context, sometimes overtly played on the screen and sometimes casually carved into the side of a tree you'll pass by.

Year Walk is the sort of game that begs you to play with pen and paper nearby. By scrolling, swiping and occasionally tapping, you'll quickly explore the sparse landscape, picking up clues and encountering a few living pieces of folklore along the way. Most of the scenery is snowy hills and a few trees, but when something interesting can be examined or a new path opens up, small white arrows appear at the top or bottom of the screen, signalling the ability to swipe in that direction to move to a new row. Year Walk plays out across strips of horizontal scenes you can scroll left and right by swiping on the screen.

It's a beautiful and very meaningful game, and quite the haunting experience if you sit down and let yourself get drawn into the story. Structured like a minimalist point-and-click puzzle game, Year Walk weaves together various pieces of Swedish mythology to set an atmosphere of cold intrigue and foreboding mystery. It's a great credit to the studio, however, that such different games can be pulled off with equally impressive results. Year Walk, the latest mobile release from Simogo, is almost the exact opposite of the team's previous release Beat Sneak Bandit.

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