Flash game: The Woods

Foster Wattles' The Woods sinks into a perfect atmosphere—dark, haunted woods with weird technological things going on—but I can't get past the snowstorm! Last year, Wattles, a student at the Maryland Institute College Of Art, released Untitled, a silhouetted side-scrolling adventure in the Blade Warrior/Limbo tradition. The sound design is by Rubriq. [Kongregate]

• [jackbird]

  If you like web-playable walking-around-in-the-woods-and-surviving games, I heartily recommend Make No Wonder as well.

• [SamSam]

  Hmmm, I’m not convinced that there *is* anything beyond the snowstorm.

  Skeptical-me thinks it’s an easy way to make a 2-minute game that seems artsy and leaves people wondering if there’s more.

  Nice me thinks this could be fun as a complete game.

• [mat catastrophe]

  I love a game with no discernible goals or objectives that involves running around from room to room, clicking on things that do nothing and having other items run away from you.

• [SavvyTennisBalls]

  If you keep walking right, the blizzard gets denser and denser.

  • [oasisob1]

     Or up, or down, or left, or random directions… there must be some clue.

  • [Mari Lwyd]

    8 screens and it’s a whiteout. I basically walked in an oval back to the original screen to confirm.

  • [l337n00b]

    You get the exactly same screens by moving in different directions – if you draw the tree layout you’ll see it doesn’t make a difference.  That’s not to say there isn’t any way that makes a difference.  But with no clues trying to choose 8 moves correctly is not a feasible thing to brute force.

• [stratisfear]

  It is kinda retro and eerie.  Me likey!

• [PhosPhorious]

  I tried the Zelda Lost Woods trick. . .  North, West, South, West.

  Nothing.

• [opcws]

  Yeah, I’m not finding anything either. Just 8 screens then whiteout.