Beacon Pines is an upcoming indie game from Texas-based Hiding Spot Games, and the title is to be included in this year’s Big Adventure Event. The BAE is a digital showcase celebrating indie adventure games. Last year, the event welcomed over 300,000 fans to a showcase of 80+ games. Now it’s back and bigger than before, with more games, more demos, more fans, and community events for everyone. It all kicks off this Thursday, January 20th, live on Steam.
Beacon Pines is an adventure game set in a magical storybook. In it, you play as both the book’s reader and its main character, a young boy probing mysterious events in his hometown. Along the way, you’ll find charms inscribed with new words that let you rewrite past events, leading to entire new sequences of events to explore with Luka and his friends. It’s been described as “Winnie the Pooh meets Stranger Things.”
Key features include:
- No combat – gameplay focuses on exploration, deep character-driven dialogue, and light puzzle-solving
- Explore a hand-illustrated town full of charming characters – and unsettling secrets
- Change past events by turning back the storybook, uncovering new branches
- Discover new words and use them to write (and rewrite) the game’s story
Beacon Pines, which started life as a rhythm-based RPG before going through several years of development and a successful Kickstarter campaign, is set to hit PC and Switch later in 2022 and a demo can already be found on the Steam page. BAE will be hosted on their existing Steam page here. Check out the trailer below!
