Mysteries and clues await everywhere in Year Walk, but to fully understand the events that took place on that cold New Year’s Eve, you will have to delve deeper than the adventure and lose yourself between fact and fiction. Solve and decipher cryptic puzzles, listen for clues, and learn about mysterious folklore creatures in the built-in encyclopedia as you seek to foresee your future and find out if your loved one will ever love you back. Venture out into the dark woods where strange creatures roam, on a vision quest set in 19th century Sweden. New locations, new puzzles, a map, updated art, integrated encyclopedia, hint system, Steam Achievement puzzles … and more!Įxperience the ancient Swedish phenomena of year walking through a different kind of first person adventure that blurs the line between two and three dimensions, as well as reality and the supernatural. We don’t have any plans for ports at the moment.A new and reworked version of Year Walk released via Steam, with updates and additions to feel right at home on PC. Thank you for the kind words about Year Walk! It’d be tricky to bring that version over to Switch, as we tailored it so specifically for Wii U. It’d be fun to explore more ideas about pop music, though.Īre there plans for any sort of post-launch updates or content?ĭoes Simogo have any interest in bringing over any other previous titles? The Wii U version of Year Walk was completely reworked with additional content, and was a personal favorite of ours, so we’d be excited to see it get a re-release for Switch. We never say never, but there aren’t any plans for a sequel. They don’t come out with a bang but continue to do well over a very long time.Īre you interested in making a sequel, or do you feel the team has exhausted all of its ideas for the time being? All of our games have been a little more evergreeny in that way. We don’t really make hit-games so it’s too early to tell. They are great sparring partners too, for all kinds of advice and help.Īlthough it’s only been available for a few days, are you pleased with how Sayonara Wild Hearts has been performing sales-wise thus far?

The team is really awesome, pragmatic and always look after us and our interests. How was it working with Annapurna Interactive? Was there anything in particular the company contributed to the game? We wanted to make a console game and some year into the development we had visited Nintendo to see Switch and got dev kits so we just thought it’d be a cool start for our first console game! What was it about Switch that drew the team to Nintendo’s platform? It was quite tough to create a game like this which such a small team. How long was the game in development, and how did development generally go? (Smoothly, hit a few roadblocks, etc.) I think Geoff Keighley had asked us a couple of times if we had something to show at the awards many years ago, but for Sayonara Wild Hearts all of that was mostly through Annapurna! Well, besides the trailer that we created here. Having Sayonara Wild Hearts unveiled at The Game Awards must have been a pretty big deal. I would say gameplay, vibe and emotional impact was most of the focus over story. This time around we wanted story to step back, so it is more about the general vibe and a feeling, rather than an outspoken story. How did you balance the game between its gameplay, music, and story? Did one ever become more of a focus than the other? Sayonara Wild Hearts also has a fair focus on narrative. Would you consider Sayonara Wild Hearts to be more of an album or a videogame? Rhythm games can be really scary to a lot of people, so we wanted to make a game that was based around music, but rather followed the flow of tracks rather than being about beat matching. How does Sayonara Wild Hearts differ from other rhythm games? It’s a can’t miss for anyone who appreciates dark, nightmarish, and heady storytelling with a (relatively) historically-accurate mythical slant. We wanted to give Sayonara Wild Hearts our everything, as if it was our last game, so we wanted it to have a name that reflected that. Year Walk is a two-hour, seven-dollar experience that far transcends both its duration and price tag. I was inspired by the myth (at least I think it has now been debunked?) that “Final Fantasy” got its title from the creators believing it would be their last game. Gamezebo’s quick start strategy guide will provide you with. Where did the idea for the title of the game “Sayonara Wild Hearts” come from? Year Walk is a first person adventure game from Simogo where you must traverse through dimensions and solve puzzles along the way.

Things like the cafe racer culture as well as the teddy girls subculture was really influential, visually.

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