#Year walk game soundtrack free#

Or in other words, the Årsgång, an ancient Swedish means of divination, where participants went searching for clues to their future through strange rituals and encounters with supernatural creatures. They will be useful later.Īnd now, with the game ported to Nintendo's Wii U, you can actually make notes without keeping pen and paper handy, as the GamePad menu has a tab that allows you to scribble down any hints you might find as you attempt to complete your 'year walk'.

#Year walk game soundtrack free#

The soundtrack – subtle, creaking, eerie and enchanting at once – is a vital aspect of the game's hold on its player, likewise its freedom: while there's a set order to the puzzles that must be adhered to, you're free enough to wander the woods, crunching through the New Year's Eve snow under a midnight moon, noting down clues and directions as you go. It's deeply atmospheric, despite its visible limitations, its almost paper-art looks. It's also a horror game, all the more disturbing for its cuteness, its approachably twee aesthetic torn in two at a number of seat-edge-slipping moments. It's not a game that's easily summarised in a sales-pitch sentence – even describing it as I did above, 'a two-dimensional first-person puzzle adventure', while ticking a lot of face-value stylistic boxes, fails to convey its complete nature. It was a jump scare I wasn't expecting – but more fool me, as the only way to really approach Year Walk, made by the small team at Malmö-based studio Simogo, is with all bets off.