Oh, bother: Winnie the Pooh gets the bloodlust again in this Eldritch horror game set in the Hundred Acre Wood
Christopher Robin is in trouble, and it's up to you to save him! But it's not the sort of trouble you might expect from A.A. Milne's most famous tale. Something has happened to the Hundred Acre Wood—it's been twisted by some unknown cosmic force—and now Christopher Robin is facing «a fate too terrible to imagine» in a horrifyingly familiar world.
Hundred Acre Wood(opens in new tab) is a «first-person action adventure» that promises a Lovecraft-style take on a world filled with heffalumps, woozles, and cherished characters like Eeyore, Rabbit, Owl, Kanga, and of course Piglet and Winnie the Pooh, none of whom are quite as we remember them.
«Run, hide, platform, solve puzzles, and shoot as you explore the Hundred Acre Wood's regions in any order you want,» the Steam page says. «Do whatever it takes to avoid Winnie-the-Pooh as you sneak past the hostile creatures hiding in the darkness. Discover the ruins of a once innocent child’s refuge as you uncover ancient secrets hinting at a reality beyond human comprehension.»
The audio quality of the narration in the trailer is noticeably not good, but I did get a genuine laugh out of the line, «I can't exactly explain what happened to make his friends so upset, or why you did what you did to that poor pig.» But I dig the visual style, and of course the whole idea of «Pooh's gonna kill you» is intriguing in its own right.
A bloody cosmic horror game based on a beloved children's fable is made possible by US copyright law. A.A. Milne's original Winnie-the-Pooh was first published in 1926 and entered the public domain on January 1, 2022, meaning the text and characters it contains are basically free for anyone to do with as they see fit. That's how we ended up with, for instance,
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