![]() Throughout, Edward is able to search his surroundings for clues to his host family’s whereabouts, with prompts tagged to specific items around the island and inside the family’s house, leading him to make more logical conclusions than those of his more instinctually driven companion. But the inquisitive Lissie, who very much has the moxie of a budding detective, picks up his slack, jumping at every opportunity to learn more about the island’s secrets, even egging Edward on with her unbridled enthusiasm and imagination. It’s a picture-perfect setup to a potentially enthralling mystery about the secrets that plague this remote island, except that Edward is troubled by another mystery he’s looking to solve: the disappearance of his long-lost sister, Betty, who he insists has been leaving him clues to her whereabouts. ![]() And as Lissie tears off toward their host family’s homestead and he trudges after her, Edward can only ponder exactly what’s going on in this place. It’s an impression made all the more eerie by the fact that Edward and Lissie were invited to the remote island by its most prominent family. The island’s small village seems recently abandoned, almost as if its inhabitants vanished overnight. To Edward and Lizzie’s surprise, no one has come to pick them up. All the while, the tranquility of this scene is punctuated by a beautiful and evocative orchestral soundtrack, the melody eventually subsiding as the duo docks at a nearby island. He’s accompanied by his young ward, Lissie, a boisterous and irreverent teenager who has a penchant for dropping quips and endearing jibes, and much to Edward’s chagrin. You play as a stodgy American named Edward, languidly rowing a boat along a meandering Norwegian fjord, backdropped by impossibly blue skies and snow-capped mountains. The game, though, makes a great first impression with its breathtaking setting and attention to detail. Draugen is clearly mistrustful of its potential, stuffing itself with more and more narrative ideas until it practically asphyxiates, ending up as a sprawling and unresolved mess. And there’s no clearer example of that than the latest from the Oslo-based Red Thread Games. While that can be an invigorating impetus to the artistry behind a video game-or that of any creative work, really-it can also run great ideas into the ground. Written by Ragnar Tørnquist (The Longest Journey, Dreamfall, The Secret World, Dreamfall Chapters)Ĭurrently available for PC ( Steam and GOG.com), Draugen is coming to PS4 and Xbox One on February 21, 2020.The self-professed “fjord noir” whodunit Draugen certainly doesn’t lack for wild ambition.The characters are fully voiced and MOCAPed.A fully independent companion character, with which to have realistic, dynamic discussions and interactions.The environment changes to reflect the main character's worsening mental condition.A first-person mystery set in the 1920s, taking place in the picturesque Norwegian Fjords.On February 21, 2020, Xbox One and PS4 players are finally invited to visit the picturesque town of Graavik and uncover its mysteries through the eyes of an increasingly unreliable narrator… Who is she, and what is her connection to this place? Who is the little girl singing broken lullabies as the sky begins to darken? And when night falls, and those last few, precious drops of kerosene in the lamp feed a fragile, flickering flame, what hides out there in the darkness and in the cold, black sea?ĭiscover the clues. And they will come to see that behind even the most innocent of facades lurks the potential for malice.īut there is more to this place than meets the eye.įrom time to time, a woman in black can be spotted in the distance. Lovecraft, Scandinavian fairy tales and the breathtaking Norwegian landscapes, Draugen will take the brave player on a mysterious, mystical and moody journey into a darkly picturesque nightmare.Īs the player explores the tiny settlement, gathering clues and memories, and unearthing the truth behind a terrible tragedy, they will learn more about the history of the village and its inhabitants. Inspired by a heady mix of Norse mythology and New England Gothic, Nordic noir and H.P. But when the traveler arrives in this village on the edge of the civilised world, he finds that nothing is quite what it seems.and there are things out there in the deep, dark waters. Draugen is set in an isolated coastal village in northwestern Norway in 1923. The story is experienced through the eyes - and spectacles - of an American traveler, a stranger in a strange land, searching for his missing sister.
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