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The Silent Swan, a first-person mystery game with a huge Bloodborne-esque open world, is out nowA walking sim of Gothic scale
A walking sim of Gothic scale
Image credit:Gammera Nest
Image credit:Gammera Nest
The Silent Swan - Launch Trailer | PS5 GamesWatch on YouTube
The Silent Swan - Launch Trailer | PS5 Games
Alice0played The Silent Swan’s demo last yearand was pretty keen, summarising it as “almost exhaustingly slow, but interesting” and comparing it to Kafka, Borges,BloodborneandDishonored.
“[Y]ou can, if you want, scale 34 floors of a spiral staircase up a spire rather than take the lift,” she wrote. “You can also run into the woods towards distant vast buildings that grow mere pixels taller as you hold W for minutes. At this point, I’ve seen no suggestion that the game rewards this in any way beyond the satisfaction of doing it. As a fan ofwalking simulators, I do find that freedom quite satisfying. But the pace and distance can get frustrating in a game that needs you to complete objectives to advance the plot.”
The plot in question sees your character, Mirov, searching for his wife Selene in the mysterious Land Beyond The Walls, after 17 years of absence. “Throughout the game Mirov will gradually near the bed of the calamity that struck his home, and get closer to the truths he is determined to unearth, while a strange uneasiness warns him he best walk back,” reads the blurb. “The Silent Swan is the story of two cities: Urzhum and Sernur; of two conflicts: past and future; and of two people; Selene and Mirov.”
