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Year Walk

4.5 out of 5
4 User Ratings
5 Stars
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87
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93% | Very Positive
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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.
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About Year Walk

About this game

In the old days man tried to catch a glimpse of the future in the strangest of ways.

Experience 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.

Venture out into the dark woods where strange creatures roam, on a vision quest set in 19th century Sweden. 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.

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.

This edition of Year Walk features several new additions:

  • New locations within the game
  • Map
  • Updated art
  • New puzzles
  • Integrated Encyclopedia about the mysterious myths and creatures encountered in the game
  • Hint system
  • Steam Achievement Puzzles

Game Details

Platform:
steam
Release Date:
March 06, 2014
Developer:
Simogo
Publisher:
Simogo
Rating:
ACB rating of 15
ESRB rating of 13
PEGI rating of 12
Supported Languages:
English
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Product Requirements

Minimum:

  • OS: Windows XP
  • Processor: 2 GHz
  • Memory: 1 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Pixel Shader 2.0, 256 MB
  • Hard Drive: 1100 MB available space

Recommended:

  • OS: Windows 7 (or later)
  • Processor: 3 GHz
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Pixel Shader 2.0, 1GB
  • Hard Drive: 1100 MB available space

Product Requirements

Minimum:

  • OS: OS X v10.5 Leopard
  • Processor: 2 GHz
  • Memory: 1 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Pixel Shader 2.0, 256 MB
  • Hard Drive: 1100 MB available space

Recommended:

  • OS: OS X v10.7 Lion (or later)
  • Processor: 3 GHz
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Pixel Shader 2.0, 1GB
  • Hard Drive: 1100 MB available space

Critic Reviews

87

PC Gamer

PC Gamer
84 / 100
"Stylish, succinct and spiritual, Year Walk coins its own genre: the fright of passage."

Gamer.no

90 / 100
"Year Walk is an intense and uncomfortable point-and-click horror adventure. Its puzzles rely heavily on the player’s ability to observe and deduce, and the game never directly...

Metro GameCentral

90 / 100
"An excellent conversion of the original iOS hit, and a wonderfully disturbing horror story that innovates in terms of everything from visuals and interface to its macabre...
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Year Walk Statistics

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< 1 Hour
2.78%
~1 Hour
5.56%
~2 Hours
30.56%
~4 Hours
41.67%
~8 Hours
2.78%
~12 Hours
8.33%
~20 Hours
8.33%
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~60 Hours
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>= 80 Hours
0%
Achievement Hunter?
0% of players played this game for >= 80 Hours!

Difficulty Statistics

Difficulty Rating

Simple
4.65%
Easy
23.26%
Just Right
67.44%
Tough
4.65%
Unforgiving
0%
Relax & enjoy! 67.44%  of players consider this game to be Just Right

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Play Behaviour

Tried It
5.88%
Played It
7.84%
Halfway
0%
Beat It
45.1%
Conquered It
41.18%
Completionist! 41.18%  of players have Conquered It

Year Walk User Reviews

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User Rating

Average score from 4 ratings
75% of users would recommend this.
4.5

User Ratings Breakdown

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Recommended

Effer
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Great value, all fine, purchased and redeemed flawlessly.
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Not Recommended

Fanatical User
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You're walking in the woods cos your girl gonna marry someone else. You gotta remember the way back and forth, solve puzzles. I can see why it'd take a year.
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Frequently Asked Questions

Somewhere in the middle. 28% of GameFAQs users said Year Walk is Simple or Easy. 67% of GameFAQs users said the difficulty is Just Right.
According to ACB, Year Walk is suitable for players aged 15 and above.
Yes, Year Walk is not fully Steam Deck Verified but the publisher says it is "Playable" on Steam Deck. Valve’s testing indicates that Year Walk is Playable on Steam Deck. This game is functional on Steam Deck, but might require extra effort to interact with or configure.
  • All functionality is accessible when using the default controller configuration
  • This game's default graphics configuration performs well on Steam Deck
  • This game sometimes shows mouse, keyboard, or non-Steam-Deck controller icons
  • Entering some text requires manually invoking the on-screen keyboard
  • Some in-game text is small and may be difficult to read
Minimum:
  • OS: Windows XP
  • Processor: 2 GHz
  • Memory: 1 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Pixel Shader 2.0, 256 MB
  • Hard Drive: 1100 MB available space
Recommended:
  • OS: Windows 7 (or later)
  • Processor: 3 GHz
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Pixel Shader 2.0, 1GB
  • Hard Drive: 1100 MB available space
Minimum:
  • OS: OS X v10.5 Leopard
  • Processor: 2 GHz
  • Memory: 1 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Pixel Shader 2.0, 256 MB
  • Hard Drive: 1100 MB available space
Recommended:
  • OS: OS X v10.7 Lion (or later)
  • Processor: 3 GHz
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Pixel Shader 2.0, 1GB
  • Hard Drive: 1100 MB available space
The average playtime for GameFAQs users is 5 hours.
Yes, Year Walk has broad critical consensus. 100% of critics on Metacritic recommend Year Walk. The Metascore is 87 out of 100.
Year Walk was released on March 06, 2014
Yes, Year Walk supports MacOS.
Year Walk is published by Simogo
Year Walk was developed by Simogo
Fanatical users tagged Year Walk as Adventure, Puzzle, Story Rich, and Point & Click
Fanatical users tagged Year Walk as Dark, Atmospheric, Horror, and Surreal
Yes, Fanatical users tagged Year Walk as Adventure
Yes, Fanatical users tagged Year Walk as Puzzle
Yes, Fanatical users tagged Year Walk as Story Rich

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