- Publisher: Simogo
- Release Date: Mar 6, 2014
- Also On: iPhone/iPad, Wii U
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Jul 14, 2015For sheer artistry and inventiveness, Year Walk is a must play that demonstrates the power of folklore, games, and a familiar journey made strange.
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Mar 18, 2014Year Walk's port to Steam is flawless, with the inventive iOS touch controls and beautifully artistic graphic and sound design immaculately recreated on the PC. The game takes full advantage of the extra hardware, cleverly utilizing a full surround soundscape to drench the player in the foreboding atmosphere of the haunted forest, while retaining the same striking animation, which suggests a nightmarish Edward Gorey picture book come to life.
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Mar 18, 2014It’s heartening to see a crossover of a more niche mobile title onto the PC platform, especially one which brings such atmosphere and creativity to the fore.
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Mar 9, 2014An excellent conversion of the original iOS hit, and a wonderfully disturbing horror story that innovates in terms of everything from visuals and interface to its macabre narrative.
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Mar 5, 2014Year Walk is an intense and uncomfortable point-and-click horror adventure. Its puzzles rely heavily on the player’s ability to observe and deduce, and the game never directly tells the player what to do next. Granted, Year Walk has some good jump scares, but it’s really the atmosphere that makes it shine, weighing down on your shoulders like heavy Swedish snow.
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Mar 6, 2014Stylish, succinct and spiritual, Year Walk coins its own genre: the fright of passage.
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Mar 21, 2014A short but compelling adventure, definitely worth its price.
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Mar 9, 2014With a world that is as intriguing as it is creepy, it becomes hard to put the game down. Getting wrapped up in the visuals, audio and puzzles is something that just happens as you play.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 88 out of 151
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Mixed: 39 out of 151
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Negative: 24 out of 151
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May 23, 2014
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Mar 10, 2014
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May 14, 2014