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Platform(s): PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5
Genre: Adventure
Publisher: Finji
Developer: The Glory Society

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'Revenant Hill' Development Canceled, Studio Shuts Down

by Rainier on Nov. 7, 2023 @ 2:00 p.m. PST

Revenant Hill is a narrative adventure game with farming elements, where you strive to build an egalitarian community.

The year is 1919. After the barn he was living in burns down, Twigs the cat takes up residence in a wet log near an abandoned graveyard. When the owl from the next hill over starts demanding rent, Twigs must find a way to make ends meet, and things just get more complicated from there. 

Times are hard, making ends meet is harder, and the world doesn’t stop at the edge of the graveyard. Something big and dark is at work in the towns, the factories, in the forests and hills. At some point, someone is going to have to push back. And they can’t do it alone.

Grow crops. Watch the seasons pass. Create a community. Make enemies and host ambitious parties for witches and demons while you get tangled up in a world in the midst of violent change, and so much more.

Announced earlier this year, Revenant Hill developer The Glory Society announced that it suspending operations and ending development on Revenant Hill.

Friends, followers, and fans,

Making anything complex poses challenges along the way. Games take a while to make and usually require a good team working together. We've been lucky to have one such good team. Unfortunately, recent serious health issues have necessitated two key members stepping away from the project indefinitely. We are a small team and we each wear multiple hats. This is a loss of several hard to replace hats in an environment where all hats are needed. Given the realities of schedules, budgets, and the fraught task of reworking the whole project within those parameters, the team has amicably decided to suspend operations. For all intents and purposes, this is the end of the development of Revenant Hill.

We are a co-operative, and we make decisions as a group," the statement continued. "For us, this was the clear path to take for the well-being of the team, which is frankly more important than games. In the future, after the dust has settled, perhaps we'll talk about what we've made and learned together. In the meantime, we want to thank everyone who worked with us, supported us, and believed in us.

Sometimes things happen beyond your control that change the available options and you just have to roll with it together. Glory was a project in and of itself, and it's one we're proud to have been part of. Thank you for caring about what we did. Take care of each other, and support the workers doing the labour of making the games you love. We'll see you around.

The Glory Society

Key Features:

  • Grow crops to advance the Narrative
  • Sell or use crops for your own devices
  • Make friends and enemies
  • Visit far-off lands
  • Learn to write and keep notes in your journal

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