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Éclaircies

Lost in a bewildering forest, discover a new way to run and walk through a vast and intricate environment. Create new trails, map the forest, leave your mark and use the stars to chart your way out as you make the most of your journey.

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May 20, 2026
73 days ago
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About the Game

Explore a deep, intricate forest and master a whole new way of moving around by using only two keys. Experience a more detailed and more immersive walking and running simulation.

Don't let the foreign and bewildering environment stop you, find your pace, wander off carefully through the forest and you will soon discover that your journey is not in vain and that everything leaves a trail, everything matters and anything can be seen from up there.

Key Features

- Innovative first person controller, giving to the walking simulator genre a whole new meaning.

- Radical exploration gameplay based on celestial orientation.

- An environment that remembers your journeys.

- Deeply immersive experience.

- A unique forest to explore and transform.

- Short and minimalist experience (roughly an hour).

Credits

Design, code and art by Simon Chauvin.

Sound design by Marie Muller.

Additional sound design by Romain Enselme.

With the support of Centre National du Cinéma et de l'Image Animée (CNC).

(Best played on keyboard)