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Year Walk is the story of a man on a spirit journey in hope to see visions of the future. Except it’s the 19th century, in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of the night, pitch black, snowing, he hasn’t eaten or drank anything for days, he doesn’t really know where he is going and the last person he saw before leaving told him not to go and said it wasn’t natural. Oh, and there are creatures from Swedish folklore…
Remember the old cliche that games will one day be like Pixar movies? Despite its simple appearance Thomas Was Alone is that game. I’m not talking about fancy graphics with individually rendered hair. I mean that Pixar can take an inanimate object like a small lamp and give it life. So it seems, can Mike Bithell (creator of Thomas Was Alone). You play as Thomas, an extremely observant, cheerful but above all lonely…
