'Marathon' this, 'Spider-Man' that, as far as I'm concerned the real PlayStation Showcase showstopper was the years-in-the-making follow-up to the most autumnal game of all time

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'Marathon' this, 'Spider-Man' that, as far as I'm concerned the real PlayStation Showcase showstopper was the years-in-the-making follow-up to the most autumnal game of all time
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I don't care about all the teraflop-thirsty pixel-pushing big dogs that got announced, give me Revenant Hill.

Night in the Woods is something special, an adventure game set in a diminished industrial town called Possum Springs, a placerural Pennsylvania, but populated entirely by adorable anthropomorphic animals, and whose proud history of labor resistance has been appended with a sad coda of post-industrial decline.

It's like Daria meets Twin Peaks, a loving, melancholy portrait of a dying town brought to life with Benson's gorgeous storybook art and animation. It's the perfect game to play in the fall too, with a hazy warm color palette and the action of NITW itself taking place from late summer through early winter.

Revenant Hill looks to press the gas on both autumnal vibes and the themes of early industrial labor organizing. Its first trailer shows protagonist Twigs the cat running along through various distinctive locales, including a witches' coven and a city with striking workers in the background, before settling on a hill above a wheat field.

Times are hard, making ends meet is harder, and the world doesn’t stop at the edge of the graveyard. Something big and dark is at work in the towns, the factories, in the forests and hills. Sooner or later, someone is going to have to push back." Say no more, I'm in. We do not yet have a release window or even relevant storefront pages for Revenant Hill, but it is confirmed for release on Steam, and you can sign up for newsletter updates on the game's

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