Witch Strandings
Strange Scaffold · 2022 · Multiple Endings, Atmospheric, Pixel Graphics, Choices Matter, Adventure
PC
Mixed69% · 35
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About Witch Strandings
Far, far away, there is a Forest, filled with dark things, indelibly influenced by the Witch who lives as distantly as she can from its undulating heart. You are a strand of light, coalesced to nurture the dark.
Create pathways through the darkness in a top-down open world inspired by dark fairytales. Nurture the creatures of the Forest, repair ancient structures, and ultimately: confront the Witch who broke this place.Witch Strandings dials into the emerging genre of physical transportation. A digital forest that extends beyond the boundaries of your screen, in an all-new Strand-type game.
FEATURES
- Whether swiping your mouse quickly to move through raging rapids, or inching forward to avoid being swallowed by quicksand, a unique cursor control method makes your journey a physical experience.
- Carry supplies across a twisting Forest to nurture disturbed creatures.
- Haunting open world with distinct biomes and a day-night cycle.
- Activate ancient structures to strengthen your link to the land of the living.
- Create your own pathways through a cursed and ruined Forest.
- Use haunted mushrooms, mystical artifacts, and more to alter the world.
- Kill any character at any time—permanently.
- Confront the Witch, and decide the fate of the Forest.
- Make the Forest a better place--or strangle it.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
UI hurts my eyes. Not for me.1 found this helpful
The UI hurts my eyes. You are not allowed to edit settings until you pass the tutorial. Alot of reading and sudden death situations. Not very fun.1 found this helpful
Very short, mildly interesting, nowhere close to worth the price. Forgetable.
It could have been interesting if it didn't actively hurt to play. It would have been so much nicer if I didn't have to sweep my mouse all over the place just to move. Maybe just keyboard or joystick style controls would have been better.
A really strange title. Your mouse cursor is your character and different tile types impede your movement, so to build paths you grab items and click and drag them into place. It's a simple narrative, but it is fun to free wheel around the map with your little light orb once you've built paths for yourself. Traversing the forest grid is almost meditative, and the soundtrack really adds to this trance-like play state. There's some interesting bits of description surrounding the animal characters but nothing that gives enough depth to sink emotional hooks into the player. It would have been nice to see a few more endings to this bare bones story to give it a little more depth and punch, or procedural generation on the level itself to give the game a little more replayability, but I enjoyed my time with this game so I'm recommending it. This title has definitely inspired me to look for games with this type of abstract, minimalist style. If you are a game designer or like trying games that are experimenting with off beat gameplay styles, this is a title for you.
Bought it entirely for having a unique art style and I simply had not played anything like this before. I cursed at getting stuck in Hex tiles a few times, but altering mouse sensitivity a few times lead to an interesting adventure. Completed in under two hours, but plan to go many rounds in my little forest when I need a break from the headache of 3D atmospheres. My green little heart beats.
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