Year Walk

Year Walk reconstructs the Swedish year-walking tradition, where on New Year's Eve a man would venture into the dark woods to glimpse his future. Simogo built a first-person adventure around the ritual, layering 2D and 3D perspectives so that walking forward through trees suddenly flips into navigating sideways across a flat plane.

The woods are populated by creatures lifted from Scandinavian folklore: the Brook Horse, the Huldra, the Mylings, the Church Grim. Each demands a different reading: tap on the right ritual object, identify a sound by ear, decode runes on a stone, or rearrange a scene until something hidden surfaces. An in-game encyclopedia explains each creature's mythological background as you meet them.

The Steam edition expands the original mobile release with new locations, additional puzzles, an updated map, retouched art, a hint system and Steam achievement puzzles. The full understanding of what happened on that New Year's Eve only assembles if you push past the obvious ending.