Beacon Pines

Beacon Pines is a narrative-focused game where the goal is to end the story with a happy ending. The player will come across "Turning Points", moments in the story where the player's actions change the outcome of the story. The choices are limited by the amount of words (called "Charms") the player has picked up. The player is encouraged to explore the branching timeline to get different charms to get further in the story.

Luka VanHorn is a 12-year-old deer boy who lives in Beacon Pines with his grandmother after his father died when he was six, and his mother mysteriously disappeared. He hangs out with his best friend Rolo Cotter, a liger. While awaiting the town's upcoming annual Harvest Festival, the pair stumble onto some strange happenings at the abandoned warehouse in the woods near their treehouse. Along with the new girl in town, Beck Moedwil, the trio seeks to unravel the mysteries of what is going on in their town.

Beacon Pines is a small town known for its agricultural sector and its fertilizer plant, Valentine's Fertilizer, owned by the eponymous Valentine family. In the town's heyday, Valentine's produced a miraculous fertilizer that caused crops to grow bountifully and quickly. Beacon Pines' economy grew rapidly around the fertilizer sales. However, 6 years before the start of the main story, Sharper Valentine, patriarch of the Valentine family, suddenly died.

Beacon Pines received "generally favorable" reviews, according to review aggregator Metacritic. Fellow review aggregator OpenCritic assessed that the game received strong approval, being recommended by 85% of critics.