Night in the Woods

I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

my early years as a teen was spent with my best friend, playing this game at her house for hours. Now we have two kids and are married, and on our anniversary in a week were going to spend time together replaying this masterpiece of nostalgia.

Truly a life changing experience for me. I come back every few years for a fresh playthough, and each time I walk away relating to different characters and with a new perspective. If you want to fall in love with an atmospheric game that wears its heart on its sleeve, this is the one.

“I believe in a universe that doesn't care and people who do.” -Angus Delaney
A quote that stayed with me reminded me that even if the universe is possibly meaningless and we have no purpose in the grand scheme of everything, the people around us make it matter. We matter.

Even in a universe that doesn’t care, we matter because we care.

amazing game 10/10 art, music, dialogue, characters, etc

One of those pieces that sticks with you. I remember picking this up as a kid and getting this overwhelming feeling I was playing this game too early, that this would be a very special game for an older version of myself, so I put it down.
Now that I am around the age Mae is (probably a little older) I can say wholeheartedly that I'm glad I waited. The game is beautiful, the music is catchy, the writing is both hilarious and deeply, deeply personal and introspective about the rapidly-ending world it inhabits and the drowning young adults that gasp for air under the burden of weight of a system that was not built to last.
A sharply prescient game even a decade on, I can't help but see in it the struggles of the real people that poured their blood, sweat and tears into a piece of their soul. Short of ranting ad nauseum about the things every review will implore you make this game special, I just bid you buy and play this wonderful little piece of art, and forge your own connection to it's haunting, mundane, stagnant, ever-changing world.
For me, I played this at exactly the right time in my life, and I will likely never stop thinking about it as a result. Hopefully it can do the same for you, too.

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☑ Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☐ Adults
☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☑ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☑ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☑ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☑ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☑ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☑ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

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I loved this game so much. This was the most fun Ive had with a video game since Doom 2016. If youve ever played the Stanley Parable or Thomas Was Alone youll love this. The simple art style slots nicely into the main characters simple view of the world; the light tone and upbeat music juxtaposes to the black comedy and deadpan jokes that always slap. The style of humor is very much my jam... if youre up for a few hours of laughs and enjoy 2D platforming this is so much more worth your time than dozens of AAA titles i could mention. This stands tall and proud among my top 10 games of all time. Even if you think you might not like it get it anyway because this is a shining example of a product from love by competent artists with a clear vision in mind unhampered by dumb CEOs who think all games need to pad out their run time with crafting and skill trees. It reminds me of the tone of games from the 90s and 00s when games were made because a group of professionals who wanted to make fun games for people to enjoy, not because if they didnt meet quarterly margins they would get fired.