It's emphatically two-dimensional for all but a few stand-out moments and you control the action by swiping sideways to move along a series of delicately rendered planes, each showing a precise little sliver of woodland. It's a first-person game, but one unlike any other first-person game I've ever encountered. Year Walk takes place in a wintry forest, long after night has fallen. Lost amid Year Walk's frigid brooks and silver-skinned trees, you'll find an earthy tale of rituals, destiny and, inevitably, murder. Suffice to say it's a horror game, despite its prettiness: a horror inquest, really. I won't be spoiling that story, since, a few puzzles aside, most of the considerable strengths of the latest iOS game from Simogo - creators of Beat Sneak Bandit - lie with its narrative and the manner in which it all comes together in your mind. For me, there was also that familiar tension, too: the clean lines and tidy shapes of the textured, storybook design used to support the darker organic mass of the story that it's been employed to tell. ![]() There are no artists and no beaches and no coffins in Year Walk, but there is death and there is nature and there are grim spaces for your imagination to trickle into and fester. ![]() You know: the smooth, painted surfaces contrasted with the knowledge of what lay rotting inside. The whole effect hinged, I guess, on a kind of clash of exteriors and interiors. Several years ago, I saw an exhibition by a local artist who made coffins for the birds he found washed up on the beach near his home: weird little curved boxes, tidy and cleanly built, yet strangely organic with it.
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