Hawthorn Preview (PC)

Hawthorn is a very interesting concept for a game, because you are in a beautiful fantasy world, a sandbox filled with animals, and you get to explore it, craft stuff, complete quests and enjoy everything living around you. You’re in a woodland settlement that was meant to be a trading post for the woodland creatures, and your focus is to try and breathe life back into it. And you do that by recruiting woodland creatures, which is very exciting.

Since this is a sandbox RPG at heart, that means you will be foraging, fishing, crafting and doing all kinds of tasks similar to that. You can take the role of a woodland creature and then focus on developing the lakeside settlement in Windermere valley. One of the things I enjoyed but never expected from the game is to have seasons in the game, as well as resource cycles.

The game goes even further by allowing you to easily recruit NPCs in order to assist with tasks and automate them the way you want. It’s nice to see that...