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# Way To The Woods, a beautiful upcoming videogame about two deer
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/way-to-the-woods-a-beautiful-upcoming-videogame-about-two-deer/
- Published: 2015-12-10T16:00:02.000Z
- Updated: 2015-12-10T14:04:14.000Z
- Description: When I was 16-years-old I think I was hiding bottles of whiskey in a make-shift compartment I’d fashioned out of a flat-pack desk in my bedroom. My ambitions involved finishing school and getting drunk. I was probably considered a hopeless if academically successful wreck. This is only confirmed by
- Author: Chris Priestman
- Tags: News, adventure, deer, exploration, Unreal, way to the woods, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

When I was 16-years-old I think I was hiding bottles of whiskey in a make-shift compartment I’d fashioned out of a flat-pack desk in my bedroom. My ambitions involved finishing school and getting drunk. I was probably considered a hopeless if academically successful wreck. This is only confirmed by seeing what other 16-year-olds get up to. Specifically, the 16-year-old Melbourne-based artist Anthony Tan who is making a beautiful videogame called *[Way To The Woods](http://waytothewoods.tumblr.com/?ref=killscreen.com)* by himself. This is flabbergasting.

*Way To The Woods* is described as a third-person adventure that follows a mother deer and her fawn as they travel through a “strange place.” By the looks of the screenshots, this place is the post-apocalyptic ruins of humanity; run-down public bathrooms and train tunnels abandoned except for the curling green fingers of nature as it takes back over. It’s hardly a stretch to see the similarities in these environments to those traipsed and fought through in *The Last of Us* and, indeed, that is where some of the inspiration for this 16-year-old’s project comes from. Others include teen drama videogame *Life is Strange*, and Miyazaki’s animated classics *Spirited Away* and *Princess Mononoke*.

![Way To The Woods](https://storage.ghost.io/c/25/84/2584b75d-4bd6-4cce-8259-f1d1c65abbb5/content/images/previously/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/izsjajb.jpg)

As pleasant as it all looks, it seems that the titular journey to the woods with these two deer won’t be all peace and quiet. [Another shot](http://waytothewoods.tumblr.com/post/134701845847/will-there-be-any-fights-or-anything-to-be-very?ref=killscreen.com#notes) shows a pack of wild dogs (or wolves?) baring their fangs in a dark underpass. There will be danger. Which also makes it very similar to Might & Delight’s two *Shelter* games, both of which had you playing as a mothering animal safeguarding their young in the wild—in [the first](http://store.steampowered.com/app/244710/?ref=killscreen.com) it was a badger, and in [the second](http://store.steampowered.com/app/275100/?ref=killscreen.com) it was a Lynx.

“the most gorgeous thing you’ll see today.”

*Way To The Woods* has been in the making for about a year and its young creator is currently awaiting for a response to his application for a Unreal Dev Grant to continue working on it. While “nervously waiting,” Tan decided to share some new screenshots of the game that [you can see here](http://imgur.com/a/gERP1?ref=killscreen.com). And it’s these that caught the eye of *No Man’s Sky* programmer Sean Murray, who brought fruther attention to *Way To The Woods* [via a tweet](https://twitter.com/NoMansSky/status/674898717300940800?ref=killscreen.com) in which he described it as “the most gorgeous thing you’ll see today.” He’s probably right.

*You can follow the development of Way To The Woods on its [Tumblr page](http://waytothewoods.tumblr.com/?ref=killscreen.com). It’s only confirmed for PC at the moment.*

![Way To The Woods](https://storage.ghost.io/c/25/84/2584b75d-4bd6-4cce-8259-f1d1c65abbb5/content/images/previously/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/btzv9ge.png)

![Way To The Woods](https://storage.ghost.io/c/25/84/2584b75d-4bd6-4cce-8259-f1d1c65abbb5/content/images/previously/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/nogzibu.jpg)

![Way To The Woods](https://storage.ghost.io/c/25/84/2584b75d-4bd6-4cce-8259-f1d1c65abbb5/content/images/previously/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/tumblr_inline_nyyyoaxuzi1rr8n4j_1280.png)

![Way To The Woods](https://storage.ghost.io/c/25/84/2584b75d-4bd6-4cce-8259-f1d1c65abbb5/content/images/previously/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/5chmma0.jpg)