Red thread games draugen update#
Tentatively titled "The Fjord Edition", everyone who's already purchased Draugen will get the update for FREE.including everyone who buys the game during the one year anniversary sale. What's next for Draugen? We'll be releasing a new edition of the game "soon", with a bunch of wonderful extras.
You can save 50% until 10AM Pacific Time Sunday, and begin your journey into the fjords today! If you haven't travelled to 1920s Graavik yet, and helped our intrepid adventurers track down Edward's missing sister, this is the perfect time to do so. And reading the feedback from players across the world, from Norway to China, from Russia to the U.S., and every place in-between makes it all worth it. And what a year it has been! With the successful launch of our game on Steam, followed by the PlayStation and Xbox ports this February, we've been able to share our story with many thousands of people around the globe. Join Edward and Lissie and Red Thread Games in celebrating the first anniversary of Draugen. "But the fresh air! The soft grass! The mountains and the fjord! All this space to frolic around in!" "Are there? I've eaten enough dried cod and potato soup to last me a lifetime." We're lucky! There are worse places to be stuck than Graavik." After a while, Draugen completely buckles under the weight of one too many revelations, which mostly revolve around Edward’s deteriorating mental state-a plotline so astonishingly convoluted that it raises more questions than it answers."I must admit, the days blur together in this forsaken hole under the hills." Twist after twist is introduced without seeming rhyme or reason, almost all of them completely untethered from the mystery behind the island. Lissie, for one, is prone to pulling nonsensical theories out of nowhere, and the contrast between her youthful exuberance and his reserved demeanor feels natural and lived in-until it suddenly isn’t.ĭraugen’s sense of atmosphere is rich enough to keep one riveted for two thirds of its campaign, but then the developers spring on us a narrative curveball that effectively kills their game’s momentum. At its strongest, Draugen spins colorful banter from the collision of Edward and Lissie’s disparate approaches to investigation. 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. The self-professed “fjord noir” whodunit Draugen certainly doesn’t lack for wild ambition.
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