Night in the Woods (Spoilers!) (Patreon)

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2017-03-25 05:24:46

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2026-06

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Night in the Woods is a really neat game about being a cat! Also about being a 20-something facing the ennui of being an adult. Also it is about Sharkle, who is the best thing ever.

Anyways, I took at look at Night in the Woods, which was a weird game to write about because it's got a ton of stuff to talk about but it wears its thematic content on its sleeve. Like, some games you have to dig a bit to get to the "What is this even about?" part, but Night in the Woods makes it pretty clear from the outset that it's about a town struggling to survive and a woman struggling to be an adult and invites comparisons between them. But there's *so much* meat that ties this whole thing together that I really really enjoyed talking about it. It's one of those games I wouldn't mind revisiting again in another context some day, after some time has passed.

Also I've had Die Anywhere Else stuck in my head for, like, two weeks, so...

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Night in the Woods (Spoilers!)

Night in the Woods is basically Ghost World meets Richard Scarry. Or maybe it's Clerks meets a Southern Gothic ghost story set in the rust belt. Or maybe it's Catcher in the Rye, but with a Sharkle. Whatever the case, Night in the Woods is a pretty dense work, thematically, despite wearing its intentions on its sleeve.