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Night in the Woods Switch  Free Download Make no mistake about it, Night In The Woods will stay with you. There aren’t very many games out there that manage to leave an imprint on the people who take the time to experience them, but Infinite Fall’s emotional adventure into rural isolationism, palpable Americana and the melancholy of long lost youth does just that. It’s both tongue-in-cheek and deeply tragic, with one eye winking at the audience and another turned inward at the very real growing pains of finding your very own place in the world.ROMSLAB.COM Best Switch Games

Night in the Woods Switch NSP NSZ Free Download Romslab

Our window into this world is Mae Borowski, a college dropout (and cat, naturally) who returns to her sleepy hometown and its anthropomorphic community, only to discover the rust belt town is both instantly familiar and inherently skewed. There’s an intriguing sense of mystery to the story just waiting to be unearthed, with the reason for Mae’s decision to leave education behind (and a life-changing tragedy from her past) hinted at subtlety throughout her interactions with the people of Possum Springs.

HomeTown

There’s an intriguing dichotomy to Mae’s relationship with the hometown she now finds both alien and familiar. It’s a credit to Bethany Hockenberry and Scott Benson’s writing that we get to witness the threads of Mae’s slowly unraveling psyche play out in the Possum Springs of here and now. Her hometown is a living time capsule, sealed in the sedentary amber of an economy that’s left its long-dead mining industry behind. And yet we’re delicately invited to see how it’s our heroine that’s barely changed, her bohemianism more an analogue for her desire to hold onto the hedonism of her teens than a true reflection of her current state of mind.

Night in the Woods Switch NSP NSZ Free Download Romslab

It’s one of the best – and more importantly, most identifiable – stories we’ve ever played in video games as a whole, never mind on Switch. It’s a game very much of our time, one that deals in themes of sexuality, love, tragedy, mental health and the very real schisms that run through many a modern family. Mae may be a larger than life caricature at times, but the challenges she encounters are beats many of us will recognise and every thread is dealt with a deftness we’ve rarely seen outside of the likes of Life Is Strange.Pikmin 3 Deluxe Switch NSP

Sub-Story

The supernatural sub-story that runs alongside the post-teen angst of the game does feel a little out of place at times, often being left to the wayside in the wake of her emotional re-connection (or lack thereof) with her old friends, but it’s a narrative element that benefits greatly from the additional Weird Autumn content that was patched post-launch into versions of the game on other platforms. Mae now has a series of hallucinatory dream sequences that ramp up the platforming while adding a tangible phantasmagoria that reaffirms the stranger things at play beneath Possum Springs’ surface.

Night in the Woods Switch NSP NSZ Free Download Romslab

There are also some unexpected – and pleasantly surprising – genres folded subtly into NITW’s narrative heavy world. There’s a rhythm game mini-game (accessible through story-driven band practice and a bass guitar found in Mae’s bedroom) that will push your timing to its limit. It’s difficulty curves make it more frustrating than enjoyable to begin with – however, since Mae often points out she’s forgotten how to play most of the songs her old band know it’s more a purposeful product of design than a technical oversight.Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 Switch NSP 

Mini Game

There’s also a pixel art, top-down ‘roguelite’ found on Mae’s laptop. There are nine levels in total to explore in Demontower and it’s so robust in its enemy types, boss battles and character movement you’ll almost forget you’re playing a game inside another game. It’s just the kind of meta experience you’d expect from a game created in the homogeneous scene that gave us TowerFall and Celeste. Not bad for a mini-game hidden in the corner of laptop desktop.

Night in the Woods Switch NSP NSZ Free Download Romslab

Having the ‘director’s cut’ that is Weird Autumn already included in Switch’s version of NITW makes it feel far more substantial, thanks partly to the inclusion of some new NPCs to meet and those aforementioned criminal activities. They’re throwaway in terms of gameplay, but they fit smoothly into Mae’s attempt to reconnect with her friends. There’s even two companion stories – Lost Constellation and Longest Night – included for added stargazing fun (with the latter offering a cute little fairy tale that riffs on its own unique mechanics).Ruiner Switch NSP 

Add-ons (DLC): Night in the Woods Switch