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Distant Trails

Explore open forest, steep mountains and muddy singletrack in this easy-paced outdoor adventure. Take a crew of trail runners out to remote locations to repair damage, protect nature and investigate unexpected events with only their feet for transport and a backpack to carry supplies.

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About the Game

Distant Trails is a single-player third-person adventure mystery following a group of trail runners on their travels.

Protect the big outdoors:

A quiet getaway to a remote island to get back to nature and run some trails is about to take a twist into the unexpected.

Take your trail runners on an adventure through the varied landscape negotiating the terrain and managing your supplies.

Work as a team to uncover the truth about what is happening on the island.

Features:

  • A beautiful muddy open world filled with story driven missions and running challenges.

  • Designed by a trail runner to have real world trail running problems to deal with like injury, fuelling and getting enough sleep.

  • Physical running simulation with varying hill gradients and ground surfaces all affecting speed and foot grip.

  • Resource management of supplies on the trail with limited space in backpacks.

  • Control multiple characters with different running strengths to switch between and work together as a team.

  • Continuous save system allows exiting the game at any time and resuming later or quick reloading if need to undo an action.