Former Bethesda and BioWare devs are making a Stardew-like with Redwall animals, and oh my god look

By Alex Chen | January 01, 0001

Nothing soothes the soul like a little woodland creature acting like it's people. If you're suffering from a midweek slump, try it yourself: Imagine a mouse. Now imagine he's got little clothes and he's sipping a tiny mouse soup from an acorn cap. Good, yeah? It's the infallible logic behind the success of Frog and Toad, Redwall, Magic's recent set—and it's the delight that , a team of former Bethesda, BioWare, and Naughty Dog devs, are hoping to capture in .

Hawthorn is NEARstudios' upcoming life sim and sandbox RPG, featuring anthropomorphic woodland animals working to rebuild an abandoned trading post into a functioning village for little owls with hats and otters who drink tiny cups of rodent ale. The studio has been posting short glimpses of early ww winner55 development gameplay on its throughout the last few months, but Hawthorn got its first proper reveal yesterday with a gameplay trailer .

In the trailer, which you can watch above, we สมัคร winner55 เครดิตฟรี​ can see plenty of familiar life sim elements like farming, cooking, and crafting, but they're acted out from a Redwall rodent's perspective. With the aid of recruitable woodland creatures, the mouse player-character plants a farm that gradually produces pumpkins and corn—crops that the mouse is dwarfed by, forcing them to harvest their corn with a two-handed axe like we might chop down a tree.

Those crops can also apparently be used as decorations, because in a singularly delightful moment we see the mouse dragging along one of their (relatively) massive gourds to place near their house. The mouse is so small, but the pumpkin is so large. Spectacular.

Elsewhere in the trailer, winner55 ทางเข้า สล็อต​ the mouse sets a communal feast for their fellow villagers, where they dance a festive jig with an otter comrade, tiny ale tankards clasped in their little paws. Later, it seems the small folk have invented competitive athletics, as the player mouse climbs onto an owl's back to join a game of what looks like basketball if basketball let you fly on a bird instead of dribble—a suggested change that the NBA, to its detriment, has repeatedly scorned.

Hawthorn doesn't have a release date, but you can wishlist it now on . 

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