Darkwood is a survival horror video game developed and published by Acid Wizard Studio. The game was first released through Steam Early Access on July 24, 2014, eventually becoming a full game release on August 17, 2017 for Linux, macOS, and Windows. The game takes place in a mysterious dark forest somewhere in the Polish People’s Republic or according to the developers, another region of the Soviet Bloc wherein the main characters have been trapped. Wikipedia
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Thon, Jan-Noël. “Playing with Fear: The Aesthetics of Horror in Recent Indie Games.” Eludamos: Journal for Computer Game Culture 10, no. 1 (2019): 197-231.