Röki

In Röki, the player takes the role of Tove, a young girl journeying into the wilderness to find her brother Lars. Designed to be "a game of brains not brawn", it follows the course of her adventure as she encounters folklore creatures and solves puzzles to unlock paths deeper into the forest.

The gameplay is a modern take on the point and click genre, with players collecting items in a backpack to then be used in the game world to solve puzzles. Players can also collect items in a sort of catalogue, which are scattered about the game's setting and can be viewed in Tove's Journal. The Journal also includes a map of each visit-able location and information about it and the characters found within, based on Tove's perspective. The game features accessible controls, like a toggle that highlights all interactive items and characters in one area.

Deep in the mountains, a young girl named Tove lives with her father, Henrik, and her younger brother Lars. When Lars was just a baby, his and Tove's mother, Eva, died, leaving Henrik grief-stricken and spending most of his days asleep in front of the fire. Thus it is left up to Tove to care for her father and her more imaginative younger brother Lars, who loves fairy tales and often acts like he can see the creatures from those folk tales. One night, as Tove is putting Lars to bed, she decides to read Lars their mother's favorite fairy tale, about the Jötnar and the Baby, which Eva had always told Tove was real.

The fairy tale goes that there existed four giant guardians of an enchanted forest, Jötunbjörn the Bear of Autumn, Jötunhjort the Stag of Summer, Jötunúlfur the Wolf of Spring, and Jötunravn the Raven of Winter. Soon humans came to the forest, and a humble woodcutter caught the Raven's eye, falling in love with him. The Raven took human form and assumed the name Rörka, marrying the man and becoming pregnant. However, because the child was only half-human, he was wild and dangerous.

Polygon Treehouse pitched and secured funding for Röki as part of the fourth year round of funding from the UK Games Fund. The soundtrack was composed by Scottish composer Aether.

Röki received "generally favorable" reviews, according to review aggregator Metacritic. Fellow review aggregator OpenCritic assessed that the game received strong approval, being recommended by 78% of critics.

Tola Onanuga of The Guardian calls the game an "impressively rich point-and-click adventure game". She finds some of the puzzles challenging, but when she took time to survey her surroundings - generally fairly easy. She also likes the game's "striking cel-shaded design". However, she scores the game 3 out of 5 stars.