I spotted this game in Newgrounds’ Last Week/By Rating sort, one of the places I keep an eye on for interesting new freeware games. But it turns out, this game’s actually from 2020 – it just happens to be new to Newgrounds. Oh well! It’s the best thing I played this week, so let me tell you about it.
Lost in Firefly Forest is a game about being lost in a forest, and solving riddles. Every path you take through these Lost Woods leads to another identical crossroad – so to make progress, you need to solve puzzles found on scraps of paper throughout the forest. It starts out pretty easy (at first, notes will literally tell you exactly what to do), and then starts to get a bit more escape-room-y towards the end.
It’s interesting to compare this to the excellent (and more recent) Cursed Travels, another game by the same author that I posted last year. In a lot of ways, that game feels like a big advance conceptually on this – but I think I kind of prefer the simplicity of this game.
I really enjoyed this one and it really does feel like the direct predecessor to Cursed Travels, especially the first one that is also a collection of separate but thematically connected puzzles. He has a new one of those out too!