Experience a mysterious and physical adventure as you race to save a cursed forest, or doom it forever.
July 7, 2022
[This unedited press release is made available courtesy of Game Developer and its partnership with notable game PR-related resource Games Press]
Author: Strange Scaffold
Witch Strandings, the new game from Xalavier Nelson Jr. (Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator), will be Out Today on Steam (for $14.99 // £11.39 // €12.49).
Witch Strandings is a top-down open world inspired by dark fairytales. Create pathways through the darkness and nurture injured creatures as you race to save the digital forest and ultimately confront the witch who broke this place.
Witch Strandings was showcased for the first time through its brand-new incredible live-action trailer on the occasion of the Guerrilla Collective.
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“Once I'd created permanent paths through the obstacles and etched the map in my mind, I was speeding through the world with wild abandon. After hours of caution, I was free to let rip, swinging my mouse around like a maniac.”
-PCGamer - “While the game narrates the story of a small light that brightens the world, it also unexpectedly stages a sweet and enlightening story that gives meaning to its world.”
-Tom's Hardware-
“Yes, that's right. Someone other than Hideo Kojima has made a so-called Strand-like, and it's quite possibly the strangest game you'll play all year.”
-Rock Paper Shotgun- A word from the designer, Xalavier Nelson Jr.
"Witch Strandings is a psychic nightmare about being presented with a truly cursed place--and finding the spirit to make it a good one. Bringing something this weird and compelling to life required a partner who understood our vision, and a truly unique take on what a game trailer could be--and in both cases, Modern Wolf delivered." What's the Witch Strandings experience?
Witch Strandings is a Ghibli and Coraline-inspired exploration of self-care, visceral horror, and the importance of connection.
Discover a new take on a ‘strand-type game’ through an innovative cursor-driven, systemic open world.
This is a game that revolves around nurturing, transportation and physicality.
Nurture vs. Decay: It is the player’s duty to care for the forest and its inhabitants, returning the environment to its more harmonious state, before the corruption of the witch spread.
Physicality: Played entirely with mouse, a new control scheme to be celebrated - it’s all about building a connection between the player and the in-game world.
Transportation and Connection: Players will link old ruins, traverse hazardous swamps, and attend to people’s needs - building connections both literal and metaphorical.
Subversive Narrative: if we spoil it, it wont' be that subversive, will it?
Strange Scaffold
Strange Scaffold is the development label of Xalavier Nelson Jr., who you might know from his work as a leading developer on An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs, Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator, or dozens of other critically-acclaimed projects. Strange Scaffold is also developing El Paso, Elsewhere, the highly anticipated throwback supernatural third-person neo-noir shooter. Modern Wolf
Modern Wolf is a publisher of games with soul. Based in London, the Modern Wolf portfolio includes weird and wonderful games such as Ostranauts, Rogue State Revolution, Cantata, Out There: Oceans of Time, and more.
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