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Kevin in the Woods (also known as Goethe in Halberstadt) is an action-adventure game developed by Bamse (aka Squidward) for the Forum64 Game Competition 2015, where it placed 6th.

The game features a top-down perspective, with NPCs, enemies, collectible items and puzzles. A notable feature is its day/night cycle, which changes the game’s colour tone and affects gameplay throughout. Players explore both indoor and outdoor areas, avoiding dangers like bats while solving puzzles and interacting with the environment.

Though the game was never officially completed, Bamse continued development after the competition but did not release a finalized version. Bamse talks about the development of game in this forum thread at Forum64.

In 2018, the group Excess released an updated (but still unfinished) version, possibly based on Bamse’s latest work – but that we’re not quite sure yet.

It is a pretty decent game overall, but sadly it seems may have been abandoned. We hope that is not the case and that Bamse will come back to it to finish off.

Contributions: Anonymous Contributor, Gamebase64 (for screenshots)

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• Preview_KevinInTheWoods (zip)

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