Crow Country

Crow Country is a survival horror game inspired by early entries in the Resident Evil and Silent Hill series. Players control Mara Forest, who is tasked with exploring the Crow Country theme park while finding objects, solving puzzles, and defeating monsters.

Combat requires players to aim and shoot at monsters encountered in the park using various weapons. Mara begins the game with a pistol, and can obtain additional weapons such as grenades, a shotgun, and a flamethrower. Players cannot shoot while running, and must stand still to manually focus their aim. Players have limited health, which is depleted by hits from enemies or environmental hazards and traps, and can be replenished using bandages, first aid kits, and antidotes. Healing items and ammunition may be collected by interacting with vending machines and containers.

In 1990, special agent Mara Forest arrives to investigate Crow Country, an abandoned rural amusement park near Atlanta, Georgia that shut down two years ago. Its founder, Edward Crow, mysteriously disappeared, and Mara is searching for him. Upon arriving at the park, she meets an injured Arthur Mole, a paranormal photographer who warns her of dangerous creatures. She helps him back to her car and continues her investigation, meeting Edward's daughter, Natalie Crow; his foreman, Tolman; lawyer Julie Baron; police detective Harrison James; and Edward's business partner Marvin Trumble, who are all there investigating as well.

While searching Crow Country, she discovers that it hides a dig site that manufactured pure gold seemingly "grown" from root-like structures, and that the park is overrun with zombie-like creatures referred to as "Guests". With pressure from the government questioning where the gold was coming from, Marvin and Crow bought a dried-up gold mine in Brazil to cover their tracks. However, after bad publicity when a 15-year-old girl, Elaine Marshall, was seriously injured in the park, it was forced to shut down. It is revealed that Elaine was attacked by one of the Guests, which appear to be carrying some kind of infectious disease; and that the root-like structures are emerging from a pool deep below the park.

Crow Country was developed by SFB Games, who were previously known for developing Snipperclips (2017), a launch title for the Nintendo Switch. The game was announced on 23 October 2023, with release planned for 2024, and a demo was made available the same day. A second trailer was released on 14 March 2024, revealing more of the park setting and the graphical style.

The game's graphics and design were inspired by survival horror games released for the PlayStation in the 1990s, including Resident Evil (1996), Resident Evil 2 (1998), and Silent Hill (1999). Additionally, aspects of the character models and environment design were modeled after Final Fantasy VII (1997).

Crow Country received "generally favorable" reviews, according to review aggregator website Metacritic. Review aggregator OpenCritic reported that 89% of critics recommended the game.

Critics praised the game's presentation and design as evocative of 1990s horror games. Daniel Bueno of Siliconera called the game "a true-to-form classic survival horror adventure", highlighting the setting and visual direction. Graham Banas of Push Square praised the game's "impressive amount of density and detail" in the environments, and its "wonderful retro graphical style". Alice Bell of Rock Paper Shotgun described the game's setting as "fantastic" and "sinister".