Whistling at Night
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux
You play as a young man walking alone on a path at night. But what ancient creatures stir when he ignores the wisdom of his elders and whistles at night?
Features
Explore the Forest with only a flashlight to light your way
An engaging narrative inspired by Turtle Island (North American) Folklore
Cinematic horror experience
Fully voiced sequences
Content Warning
Death
Dead Animal
Credits
Controller Support Expansion for Renpy by Feniks
Kinetic Text Tags and Wave Shader by Wattson
Mouse Tracking Shader Effects by Postludium
Animations, Cinematography, Sound Design/Composition, Programming and Visuals by Ursula Black
Written by Rowan Thorn
Gramma and Auntie performed by Ursula Black
Stokes performed by Rowan Thorn
Vocal Consultant and voice of Young Stokes by Sid Murdoch
Sound files from Freesound.org
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Keegan Miner
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bartosmatenko
nimlos
vadersfear
gamexplosion
Pfranzen
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Unusual gameplay, very spooky atmosphere
Thank you!
Amazing introduction, great way of story telling, I adored the voice acted segments with the flashlight, very cool and very spooky, art is amazing and I loved the inclusion of folklore.
Keep up the good work!
Absolutely stellar, well-crafted, and hypnotic! This is such a tidy, well-plotted package: short but impactful, pared-down artwork that still packs a punch, sound design that eschews music to favor atmosphere and narrative points, limited voice acting that underlines and emphasizes the nature of oral folktales: everything fits very neatly together to create an impressive and cohesive story. The way folklore adapts, adopts, and embellishes upon the (at times very disparate!) belief systems of regional cultures is a subject I find endlessly, endlessly interesting, and this is the rare example that both cites the original sources and acknowledges how much has been co-opted and borrowed over the years--while also suggesting a reckoning for those who are dismissive of the founding belief systems their urban legends and fairytales are constructed upon. Brilliant work, and all the more so with such a small team! Definitely will be following for more creations in the future! ✨
This was so well done!!!
Thank you! Our first playthrough video!
I played this with my sister. The game is very atmospheric and I love the voice acting, especially the grandma at the end. I also really enjoyed the professor's yelling at the end. It was a really great flip and gave this feeling of wow, he's really serious.
Thank you so much for the feedback!
Holy frick, this is maybe the best one I've played ever, WHAT THE FRICK?
This is literally a 5/5 in every way.
The story is told MASTERFULLY, the tone is set before you even start playing. This game saves automatically? You can't save yourself? WHY YOU GOTTA DO ME LIKE THAT?!?
And the way it's telling the before and after between the professor and him walking home, is its just fricking, its so enticing! Genuinely the most fluid story-telling I've ever seen in one of these, it's just, it's, ITS GREAT!
The visuals too, they're just, they're perfect! The TREES HAVE EYES, and nobody fricking asks questions? WHAT? And the silhouettes within the cabin talking, the pov makes it look like you're stalking them, its just, again, MASTERFUL! And the flashlight mechanics? Hello? Shining some things brighter than others depending on how far away they are? Holy polish? What? How even? What?
The music sets such a great tone, with the chilling ambience, the perfect transition to
THE VOICE ACTING! HOLY FRICK!
This is literally the only submission I've played where the voice-acting is a necessary, and GREAT thing, it didn't feel like I was listening to some guy/girl recording something, I was listening to a grandmother telling a story, its just so immersive, they gave their ALL! GAVE THAT GRANNY A GRAMMY!
And cinematography, like the visuals, is its just masterful! Walking forward, steadily creeping, KNOWING there's something waiting, just not knowing WHAT or WHEN, is its, SO FRICKING GREAT! Finding a pile of skulls is also amazing, its, everything about this is good! The ONLY thing I would change, is the opening cutscene I believe shows one of the monsters, but it would be SO MUCH BETTER to have it entirely up to interpretaion/imagination, completely cementing the psycological horror, no jumpscares, just pure imagined fear.
Anyways though, this is literally the only submission I've given a 5/5 for EVERY category, and holy frick it deserves it. I'm definately reccomending this to other people, and am pretty sure you're going to win one of the prizes, probably voice-acting frankly.
If you don't mind, do you think you could play mine, please? I'm trying to get feedback on it and to get it from you would be such an honor!
Anyways though, yeah this is just, AMAZING, everyone involved gave their A-Game, and HOLY FRICK WHY IS THERE ONLY 2 RATINGS WHY HAS NOBODY ELSE SEEN THIS WHAAAAAAAA
Thank you so much for this review. Especially the bit a the opening cutscene. I was on the fence about the sneaky peek of the monster. totally going to play your game. Downloading it ASAP
OH WOW I did not expect to feel so scared before the game even officially starts lol Great opening to it it really set the tone for the rest of the experience! LOVED the flashlight mouse, really made the whole thing very immersive and upped the creepiness a LOT! GREAT job!! :)
Thank you!