The Endless Forest is a multiplayer online game for Microsoft Windows by Belgian studio Tale of Tales. In the game, the player is a deer in a forest without direct goals or the ability to chat with other players. Pictograms above player’s heads represent their names. Players communicate with one another through sounds and body language. Wikipedia
Research exclusive to this game
Ferreday, Debra. “Becoming deer: Nonhuman drag and online utopias.” Feminist Theory 12, no. 2 (2011): 219-225.
Ferreday, Debra. “Affect, fantasy and digital cultures.” In Digital Cultures and the Politics of Emotion: Feelings, Affect and Technological Change, pp. 77-93. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2012.
Research that includes this game in its sample
Cohut, Maria. “The Gothic Landscape of Tale of Tales Games: Unresolved Quests for Meaning.” In New Directions in 21st-Century Gothic, pp. 24-38. Routledge, 2015.