Wickwood

crosses the gap in a single lunge.The Spitter never comes near you. It doesn't have to.They arrive in waves, with quiet in between. Break away far enough for long enough and they lose you — but the quiet never lasts.Everything is meleeYou start with a bat and earn an axe. Both swing in an arc in front of you, and both root you in place while they do.The dodge roll has real invulnerability frames — a sliver in the middle of the roll, not the whole of it.Death costs you ground, not progress. You wake at the last campfire with full health and walk back in.Work your way outThe campground. The old cemetery. The hollow. The dump. The worksite. The rail sidings. The Last Chance Gas station. The sheriff's office.The jobs chain into one another until the last one: an abandoned car on the road south, missing a battery, a jack and a wheel. Carry the battery and you cannot swing at anything. Pick your route.PlainlyAbout an hour from the first swing to the sunrise, in one sitting.No NPCs, no dialogue trees, no shopkeepers. The town tells you what it needs, where it needs it.One continuous night. The only sunrise in the game is the one you drive into.