A Day in the Woods

A Day in the Woods is a delightful blend of strategy, fairy tale nostalgia, and handcrafted charm. Developed by RetroEpic Software, this sliding puzzle game reimagines the story of Little Red Riding Hood in a way that's both brain-teasing and heartwarming. The core mechanic is simple yet clever: you play as a forest sprite helping Red navigate hexagonal tiles to reach her grandmother’s house. Each level is a miniature puzzle, where you swap tiles—trees, rivers, wolves, bears, and helpful friends—to carve a safe path for Red. You’re graded on how efficiently you solve each level, with bonuses for completing it in the fewest moves possible. It’s classic slide-puzzle logic, but layered with tactical thinking. For example, bears will block paths, wolves pose a danger, and characters like the woodsman or woodcutter can clear threats if positioned wisely. New mechanics are introduced gradually, keeping things fresh without overwhelming the player. What sets A Day in the Woods apart is its handcrafted art style. The entire game looks like a wooden tabletop diorama—figures, trees, and terrain all resemble hand-carved, painted toys. It’s a charming aesthetic that immediately stands out i…

A Day in the Woods is a puzzle game where you guide Little Red Riding Hood through a set of increasingly complex slider puzzles to find Grandma's cottage. The game has 60 levels. In each level, you guide Red to a cottage, picking berries and flowers and avoiding dangerous creatures along the way. The levels start off simple and add more complex obstacles as they progress. To finish each level and go to the next, you just have to get Red to the cottage safely and pick all the flowers along the way. This was almost always easy to figure out, although the most obvious solutions usually take a lot of moves. If you want to get all 3 stars for a level, you have to also pick all the berries and finish the level at or below a maximum number of moves. These could be very difficult, even in some of the early levels. I'd often get within a move of two of the target and have to spend a lot of time figuring out how I could possibly shave off that last couple of steps. Once you finish each level once, you also unlock the ability to crown the levels by finishing them in the smallest possible number of moves, which adds an even higher layer of challenge. A Day in the Woods is a great choice for…

A fun and unique game; a few annoyances would include no difficulty level choices and a bit unbalanced in general in that regard because some levels and best score values are very easy and others are ridiculously difficult and require replay. Also the sound of the "sign" bonking is quite annoying especially since the signs serve no real purpose and once read and if replaying a level for bettering scores or crown levels it is completely unnecessary. Overall recommended!

Gonna be honest I just let it run in the background for 2 hours so I could get the halloween profile background

I love the wooden table top style art and sound effects, as that's whats initially attracted me to this game. The game itself is ok. I'm not entirely sure I liked it, but there wasn't anything wrong with it either. No bugs or anything like that. One complaint I did have is that the menu items aren't labeled and they kinda expect you to just figure things out based on the generic symbols. It's not that big of a deal, but it just made the UI look incomplete because it just *looked like* there were supposed to be labels. Anyways. The game is good for what it is - a quick and easy to understand puzzle game. It delivers exactly what is promised, which is why I'm going to go ahead and recommend this game even though my feelings are more neutral.

A beautiful, well-made game! It's smooth, pleasant to watch and as easy or hard as you want it to be as you can just take Little Red to Grandma or go for the best number of moves, taking all you have to. You unlock customizations (autumn background being my favorite) by collecting stars. After finishing the last level, you unlock crowns. Levels you had finished meeting the requirements automatically get the crown so you don't have to redo those. Apparently there are seasonal achievements. I'll have to remember that.