Year Walk
First-person horror adventure centered on cryptic puzzles and Swedish folklore
Simogo · Released Mar 6, 2014
- Reviews
- Very Positive
- 93% of 1,345
- Recent reviews
- Not enough recent
- Players
- 0
- daily peak, Oct 29, 2026
- Steam Deck
- Playable
- Last update on Steam
- 11 months ago
- Nov 6, 2025
Metacritic: 87/100 (critic reviews)
What is Year Walk?
Year Walk is a single-player, first-person adventure set in nineteenth-century Sweden, where you undertake a ritual to foresee your future and learn whether your love is returned. You explore dark woods, decipher puzzles, listen for clues, and consult an in-game encyclopedia about the supernatural creatures you encounter.
For you if...
- +you enjoy short adventures with stories you piece together
Not for you if...
- −you avoid unsettling creatures and occasional jump scares
What players say
93% of 1,345 reviews are positive
Players praise the artwork, music, and eerie atmosphere. Recent complaints focus on repetitive wandering, obscure puzzles, and unintuitive interactions that make clues easy to miss.
Screenshots and trailer
Year Walk system requirements
Minimum: Pixel Shader 2.0, 1 GB RAM, 1.1 GB of disk space.
As published by the developer.
Can my PC run Year Walk?
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Set up my PC →Minimum
- OS
- Windows XP
- Processor
- 2 GHz
- Graphics
- Pixel Shader 2.0, 256 MB
- Memory
- 1 GB RAM
- Storage
- 1100 MB available space
Recommended
- OS
- Windows 7 (or later)
- Processor
- 3 GHz
- Graphics
- Pixel Shader 2.0, 1GB
- Memory
- 4 GB RAM
- Storage
- 1100 MB available space
Does Year Walk have co-op or multiplayer?
No: single-player only, no multiplayer modes declared.
Does Year Walk run on Steam Deck?
Playable Playable: it runs on Steam Deck with some adjustments.
- Sometimes shows mouse, keyboard or non-Deck controller icons
- Some text entry requires manually opening the on-screen keyboard
- Some in-game text is small and may be hard to read
- All functionality is accessible with the default controller configuration
- Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck
PC version details
- DRM
- None declared on Steam
- Controller
- Keyboard and mouse
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS
- Achievements
- 10
- Steam features
- Family Sharing
- Languages
- Text only: English.
Does Year Walk use AI-generated content?
No AI-generated content is disclosed on the game's Steam page.
Self-reported by the developer under Steam rules: it covers AI content that ships in the game, not tools used to make it. Steam page checked on Oct 27, 2026. How to filter AI games on Steam
