Witch Strandings

Witch Strandings

July 7, 2022

AdventureSimulation PC

Far, far away, there is a Forest, filled with dark things, indelibly influenced by the Witch who lives as distantly as she can from its undulating heart. You are a strand of light, coalesced to nurture the dark. Create pathways through the darkness in a top-down open world inspired by …

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72.6

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Chris White God is a Geek Jul 2022
80.0 /100

"Witch Strandings is a simple yet fascinating game that manages to build a world and make you care about it with little detail at all."

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Fraser Brown PC Gamer Jul 2022
78.0 /100

Graphics

70.0

Gameplay

75.0

Story

73.0

"An elegantly simple adventure that proves this new genre has legs."

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60.0 /100

Graphics

55.0

Gameplay

48.0

Story

62.0

"Taking after fairy tales, Witch Strandings manages to tell a predictable story in unpredictable ways. It can often be painful to play but the experience is one I won&s;t forget soon. Witch Strandings is a game I&s;m glad exists, even …"

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Katharine Castle Eurogamer Jul 2022
80.0 /100

Graphics

75.0

Gameplay

65.0

Story

80.0

"An intriguing and novel take on Hideo Kojima&s;s Strand ideas, Witch Strandings is a bubbling cauldron of magic and menace about saving or suffocating a haunted forest and its woodland inhabitants."

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Nathan Hermanson video games are good Jul 2022
75.0 /100

Graphics

75.0

Gameplay

70.0

Story

85.0

"When you set out to make something truly unique, you may find that what you make simply isn&s;t for everyone. Even with the short couple of hours it takes to reach one of the game&s;s endings, I find it hard …"

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Rob Gordon Screen Rant Jul 2022
70.0 /100

Graphics

60.0

Gameplay

50.0

Story

60.0

"Witch Strandings is odd in the best possible way, with an esoteric story and unique gameplay and visuals that - for the most part - work very well."

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Will Silberman Digital Chumps Jul 2022
65.0 /100

Graphics

70.0

Gameplay

55.0

Story

60.0

"My struggles with Witch Strandings are not of its simplicity, but that of lack of depth. Witch Strandings is not meant to be Death Stranding, part two. Instead, it&s;s meant to be a simplified and more desolate interpretation of a …"

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