✨This Weeks Top Picks - a Game and a Book!✨
Night in the Woods is a 2017 video game set in Possum Springs, an old mining town inhabited by animal-people. It’s got a low skill ceiling and is very narrative heavy, almost like a visual novel split up by exploring a 2D world. Tackling themes like depression and the struggles of the lower classes, this game might not appeal to everyone, but thanks to the lack of a barrier to entry and the fact it can be played on most systems, I can (and will) recommend it to everyone. You should play this game!
In Night in the Woods you play as a cat called Mae as she returns to Possum Springs after leaving University, only to find out how the familiar can start to feel alien. She expected everything to go back to how it was, but instead discovers that everyone is moving on around her. She must learn to adapt or risk pushing everyone around her away, which is hard when the past keeps coming back to haunt her. Add in a spooky conspiracy at the heart of the town, secret narratives found by exploring, and a cast of lovable characters including Jackie, a fascist-hating transgender goat, and boyfriends Angus and Gregg, and you’ve got a great narrative that will take you through all the emotions in 8 to 10 hours.
