Love this game! I sometimes stall during solo games unable to decide what should happen next but Witch Village provides just enough direction to keep me going as my witch journeys to find their home!
A lovely solo game that centers your feelings — as a player/storyteller and as a character. Spend a year supporting communities and finding your own.
I really appreciated how gentle this game is, not just in the story it tells but in its procedures too! There's no fixed number of cards you need to draw each season before making a decision about whether to stay or move on, you simply draw till you're ready. Interacting with the game is like the gentle suggestion of a breeze as opposed to the more emphatic push of a river flow.
Just the perfect game for a quiet Sunday morning curled up on the couch with my cat. So cozy!
A wonderfully gentle and introspective journaling game. Perfect for a quiet evening or evenings.
I reviewed this for my #33in28 series on Thoughty! http://briebeau.com/thoughty/33in28-week-4-reviews/
An excerpt:
I loved the premise of this game from the start!
The text is laid out simply in a rich, warm palette with some lovely photographs for art. It’s very approachable and has a comforting vibe to it, which I really appreciated! I liked that each page is presented very much to walk the player through the experience. There are no specific safety tools listed, but you could easily integrate tools into the experience.
You begin by answering a series of prompts about your character and the setting, establishing the time period, your character’s identity at the start, and more. Then, you play through seasons, trying out new homes each season by choosing a location and answering more prompts. Through the season you draw cards and tell your story until you feel it’s time for the season to change. This is a very fluid and pleasant pace of play, and the locations make the way you translate the card prompts different enough that you could explore for the whole year before settling down, but you also might find the right spot first try!
I found this to be a really gentle and thought provoking game. It satisfies a little bit of wanderlust in me, wanting to find a space of my own that’s safe and where I feel like I am needed and wanted. In times where we find ourselves locked into place, sometimes a game like this can bring some peacefulness to the equation.