A Beautiful, But Dead, Walking Simulator

Among Trees is a beautiful 'chill' survival game by FJRD Interactive, a micro development team based deep within the forests of Sweden. Only released onto Steam on the 10th November 2021 and already abandoned by the development team. The latest word being that they are moving onto other exciting projects. That's a crying shame to me as the game had a lot of potential, setting itself apart from other survival based games with its beautiful low key visuals that are somewhat akin to Firewatch. With no real threats in the world (apart from Bears), your soul mission is to survive day-to-day by keeping yourself warm, fed, watered and making sure you sleep. It's a wonderful walking simulator that never really becomes a lot more. The daily gameplay loop is scavenge, eat, drink, sleep. Wake, craft, scavenge, eat, drink, sleep. Repeat. Given more time and resource I'm sure that they could have added additional complexities, threats etc to the game, but it's now dead in the water. I'd love to be able to recommend this game, but now there is no further development, I advise against it. (unless you want to just use it for Wallpaper). ——— Original ratings: • Visual Design: 9/10 • Sound Design: 5/10 • Gameplay: 5/10 • Longevity: 4/10 • Fun: 9/10