The First Tree
Also short (it clocks in at around two hours), and also about an animal (this time, a fox) on a poignant journey for family, The First Tree offers players a gentle, emotional world to get lost in. Run through sparkling, starry waters, and purple, twilight fields of snow as your life entwines with that of the hushed, human narrator suffering his own familial tragedy. In this game, nature is the inescapable, powerful sadness that covers everything. But when it’s presented to you like this, sprinkled carefully throughout a majestic, abundant forest, life’s unavoidable tragedies are more cathartic than anything else.
