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Spirit of the North (2019)

Infuse Studio

Nintendo Switch · PC (Microsoft Windows) · PlayStation 4

3.02 from 96 ratings

1018 members have it in their collection · 25 playing now · 652 backlogged · 74 wish listed

How long? Main story 6h · with extras 4h · 100% 9h (from 7 logged playthroughs)

"Spirit of the North is a single player, 3rd-person adventure game inspired by the breathtaking and mysterious landscapes of Iceland. The story takes root from various pieces of Nordic folklore. The game is unique in that it purposefully has no dialog or narrative. Players must breathe in their surroundings to solve various puzzles and speculate the meaning of a lost … Read more
"Spirit of the North is a single player, 3rd-person adventure game inspired by the breathtaking and mysterious landscapes of Iceland. The story takes root from various pieces of Nordic folklore. The game is unique in that it purposefully has no dialog or narrative. Players must breathe in their surroundings to solve various puzzles and speculate the meaning of a lost ancient civilization. Play as an ordinary red fox who’s story becomes entwined with the guardian of the Northern Lights, a female spirit fox. As you journey over the mountains and under red stained skies you’ll discover more about your companion and a land left in ruin." Read less
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Details

Developers
Infuse Studio
Publishers
Merge Games
Genres
Adventure, Indie, Puzzle
Themes
Action, Mystery
Series
Spirit of the North
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Release dates

  • Nov 13, 2019 (Worldwide) PlayStation 4
  • May 07, 2020 (Worldwide) Nintendo Switch
  • May 07, 2020 (Full Release) (Worldwide) PC (Microsoft Windows)
  • Jun 12, 2020 (Europe) Nintendo Switch

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Rating distribution

5 stars
9
4 stars
15
3 stars
46
2 stars
21
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StarscReen

Status StarscReen Apr 23, 2024

enter image description hereI was about to give this a 3/5 but holy cow did chapter 7 (the last one) make me angry. After the first minute of "Wow this looks gorgeous" it became very apparent that the developer tried to stretch playtime. Endlessly running around without anything to do - the dev knew what they were doing when they suddenly removed the …

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enter image description hereI was about to give this a 3/5 but holy cow did chapter 7 (the last one) make me angry. After the first minute of "Wow this looks gorgeous" it became very apparent that the developer tried to stretch playtime. Endlessly running around without anything to do - the dev knew what they were doing when they suddenly removed the stamina cap on running. Combined with an insanely confusing level design that resulted in me running through the whole level THREE FRIGGIN TIMES before realizing I need to make a sharp turn to the right after jumping off the ledge at the end.... Why even loop the level like that??? I spent 40 minutes of my life running around like a headless chicken. Let's just say the combination of mind-numbing boredom and confused frustration almost made me want to hurt something.

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StarscReen

Status StarscReen Apr 21, 2024

The Hilariously-Get-Stuck-On-Stairs-Simulator.

In all honesty though, there's a lot wrong with this game but it looks and sounds gorgeous. Plus I'm still having a decent amount of fun three hours in.

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3DMYSTIC

Status 3DMYSTIC Sep 15, 2022

This is free on Epic Games right now at the time of this writing... I recently played through "The First Tree", a game where you are also a fox, and it was "OK"

Maybe this will be a bit more impressive?

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BorisY

Status BorisY May 2, 2022

Just finished this and I'm giving it 5 out of 5. Not because it's groundbreaking, novel, clever, a technical marvel etc, it's absolutely not, and many official reviews give it a poor "score". It's because I've spent the past few months playing it with my 7 year old daughter and it's beautiful and serene. Just wandering around in a beautiful …

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Just finished this and I'm giving it 5 out of 5. Not because it's groundbreaking, novel, clever, a technical marvel etc, it's absolutely not, and many official reviews give it a poor "score". It's because I've spent the past few months playing it with my 7 year old daughter and it's beautiful and serene. Just wandering around in a beautiful landscape as a fox / fox spirit, exploring and having a wonderful time. Both myself and my daughter are extremely sad it's finished.

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WeXaztor

Status WeXaztor Jan 24, 2021

Let's just start off with the straight forward bit: I enjoyed the game overall. It's charming, and generally it's fun to run around as a fox.

Now to the boring bit: Overall it feels like this game took inspiration from, and wanted to do a similar thing to Journey. Atleast the game felt like it to me. Sadly, this game …

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Let's just start off with the straight forward bit: I enjoyed the game overall. It's charming, and generally it's fun to run around as a fox.

Now to the boring bit: Overall it feels like this game took inspiration from, and wanted to do a similar thing to Journey. Atleast the game felt like it to me. Sadly, this game is not as polished as Journey is. This is one of those games where it feels like the creators kinda lost faith in their core concept and had to "gamify" it more with timed jumps and things to make it more challenging.

To me these things generally just got in the way of the core feeling of the game. Maybe they wanted to do timed jumps and other things? But it doesn't really fit with what it feels like to be the fox running through the game.

Would be nicer if the developers could have focused more on the experience and exploration, maybe do more for the relationship between you and the side character.

I also experienced a few glitches and misses in game design: at one point textures randomly got a red tint blinking. When starting a new chapter my joy cons got stuck on vibrate. Twice i accidentally dropped the stick next to a password thing and could not pick it up because i could only interact with the password thing, so i could not deliver those collectibles. At one point i did a puzzle out of order and had to restart the chapter.

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