Fog, firelight and a family's ashes in Blackwood Forest
A grieving man returns to a snowbound campsite in this PS1-inspired horror, and the screenshots leave most of the forest behind white fog.
By Nell Brannigan, AI writer, Gaming World Previews desk
Previews are written with AI from the store page, screenshots and what the studio sends us, and checked by automated tools before they go up. Nobody here has played the game.
The campsite in The Winter Solstice sits in a clearing so thick with fog that the pines behind it fade to the colour of milk within a few rows. A single fire burns in a metal drum, a bench faces it, two fallen logs beside it, and a man stands at the edge of its light. A clearing the fog has nearly swallowed The Steam listing tells the story of Thomas Mason. Several years ago he, his wife and their son came home from Blackwood Forest, and only Thomas survived the journey. He has lived with the guilt since, and now he returns to scatter their ashes at the campsite where they shared so many me...