Through the Woods

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6.0

Mixed or average reviews- based on 32 Ratings

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  1. doncsoo
    Nov 4, 2016
    8
    I haven't played a good horror game for while, but now finally I did. The animations were a bit weird, and the main characters voice acting wasn't good, but I liked the gameplay, it did scare me a few times, and the story was interesting, so overall it's a good horror game. I don't understand why everyone is panning this game, there are way worse horror games out there, trust me.
  2. Creawen
    Oct 28, 2016
    3
    Boring gameplay
    terrible Voice acting
    Bad writing
    Not really scary for a horror game
    I don't know what else to say here say game is simply just bad the idea was at first interesting but it gets boring pretty fast
  3. SuperkenGaming
    May 10, 2018
    6
    Through the Woods
    The Room of Horror Games
    Through the Woods is a Horror adventure game set in Norway. You play as a woman named Karen. Your son Espen gets snatched up by a Viking man cause he doesn’t wanna listen to you about not going near the pier.. and you spend the rest of this 3hr game trying to rescue him. This game is ridiculous. This is the room of horror games in almost    Through the Woods
    The Room of Horror Games
    Through the Woods is a Horror adventure game set in Norway.
    You play as a woman named Karen. Your son Espen gets snatched up by a Viking man cause he doesn’t wanna listen to you about not going near the pier.. and you spend the rest of this 3hr game trying to rescue him.
    This game is ridiculous.
    This is the room of horror games in almost everyway.. from the voice acting to the delivery of the story..
    It tries so hard to deliver something serious and I was laughing so hard during the moments in the beginning and towards the end where the majority of the story is delivered…
    The middle sections of this game is a bit more mysterious.. I took it more serious as you’ll be finding your way through this woods full of Viking villages, dead bodies, old letters and passages to help you uncover the truth behind this mystery Viking man that stole your child from you.
    By the way.. you’re a pretty neglectful mom… there’s a part of you that’s probably happy he was kidnapped…
    and naturally the story telling tackles this as your mom instincts kick in..
    gameplay wise and atmosphere wise this game is pretty all over the place.. there are a few creepy moments… there are giants and wolves you’ll be dealing with, but I never felt the game was spooky or scary aside from getting startled seeing an enemy through the trees knowing somethings about to go down…
    leading to some thrilling chase sequences..
    but the game is mostly just finding the right path to go down and explore cabins along your way for more story..
    pe3rformance wise, no huge issues aside from getting stick in between a rock and a giants foot having to exit out of the game and come back in.. thankfully checkpoints are pretty frequent here.. and the audio in the final sequence was a bit staticky and choppy.. really hurting whats meant to be an impactful moment..
    but again thanks to the delivery and ridiculousness of this story I was laughing through most of it anyway…
    I enjoyed playing Through the Woods..
    But like the room.. I enjoyed it for unintended reasons…
    you can tell this game was made with a budget.. they tried..
    And I appreciate it.
    I give Through the Woods
    a 6/10    … Expand
  4. stop9091
    Jan 12, 2017
    1
    Although the idea is interesting, this game has been definitely, implementation wise, out of reach for the softare house.

    The graphics are abysmal.The engine is seriously underperforming, there are relatively few and very unusual graphic settings, and the game has a seriously small palette (which has 256 colors at most), which makes the look extremely flat. You can see all of this in    Although the idea is interesting, this game has been definitely, implementation wise, out of reach for the softare house.

    The graphics are abysmal.The engine is seriously underperforming, there are relatively few and very unusual graphic settings, and the game has a seriously small palette (which has 256 colors at most), which makes the look extremely flat.
    You can see all of this in the "Let's play" playthough.

    The voiceplay is amateurish.

    I think that when a software house has limited budget and/or talent, they should try hard with a simple/innovative idea with manageable technology, rather than a complex idea with unreachable technological capacity.    … Expand
  5. lewisdude
    Feb 18, 2017
    4
    As a horror game, it isn't great. Voice acting is incredibly wooden and with a very strange accent, there's a ridiculous amount of walking involved and the story makes little sense. It also tends to lie to you; once, upon reaching a danger, the character declared 'I'd better sneak around!'. The correct path is to sprint straight through, sneaking around just gets you caught and killed.As a horror game, it isn't great. Voice acting is incredibly wooden and with a very strange accent, there's a ridiculous amount of walking involved and the story makes little sense. It also tends to lie to you; once, upon reaching a danger, the character declared 'I'd better sneak around!'. The correct path is to sprint straight through, sneaking around just gets you caught and killed.

    As an unintentional comedy game, it has its moments. When there's dialogue it's usually accidentally hysterical due to its poor quality, the sudden jump from modern-day Norway to Skyrim is amusing, and the strange story turns can be amusing. But again, there's just so much walking that it quickly kills any genuine humor.    … Expand
  6. arazamor
    Aug 15, 2019
    7
    The story is really interesting. It's difficult to call Through the Woods a real horror game, but the atmosphere permeates you and it will be quite easy to dive into the mysterious story. The game was completed by me for a couple of evenings and it was really good.
  7. o1nk
    Jun 13, 2023
    6
    После прохождения эмоции и ощущения вполне положительные, но в целом я бы не стал склонять чашу весов в какую либо сторону. Данный обзор пусть будет нейтральным, т.к. уже и время прошло много с момента релиза,
    так и прогресс студии нельзя оценить, потому что это их единственный проект. Увы!
    В целом для любителей скандинавской тематики я бы посоветовал, для остальных - на свой страх и    После прохождения эмоции и ощущения вполне положительные, но в целом я бы не стал склонять чашу весов в какую либо сторону. Данный обзор пусть будет нейтральным, т.к. уже и время прошло много с момента релиза,
    так и прогресс студии нельзя оценить, потому что это их единственный проект. Увы!
    В целом для любителей скандинавской тематики я бы посоветовал, для остальных - на свой страх и риск.    … Expand

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63

Mixed or average reviews - based on 10 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 10
  3. Negative: 1 out of 10
  1. GameStar
    Jan 16, 2017
    67
    A horror adventure in the woods of Norway, which offers a slightly scary story rather than real horror.
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  2. The Overpowered Noobs
    Jan 11, 2017
    50
    For a first project, Antagonist shows much promise, and I'm anxious to see what it does next.
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  3. Eurogamer Italy
    Jan 6, 2017
    80
    Quotation forthcoming.
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