6/9/2023 0 Comments Darkwood by Rosemary Smith![]() ![]() ![]() Even at the crack of dawn, venturing too far from your hideout can result in you coming face to face with blood-curdling, satanic sadists hellbent on mauling you to death. The best thing about this is that it doesn't rely on nighttime to be scary. Darkwood revels in its eponymous darkness-even its daytime cycles are subjected to limited visibility, courtesy of its field-of-vision illumination. However, the most recent iteration of this macabre indie game is unwaveringly confident in itself. It was inevitable that Darkwood would be compared to similar open-world survival games like the Burtonesque Don't Starve, and from a gameplay standpoint their top-down perspectives and day/night cycles are similar. Now, in 2019, Darkwood is an entirely new game. In GameSpot's early access review, writer Brett Todd admired its willingness to experiment with aesthetics and rework the concept of permadeath, but couldn't get past the fact that it wasn't quite ready to go on sale. When Darkwood originally launched in early access in 2014, it was an ambitious game that suffered from clunkiness and a lack of identity. ![]()
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