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Since there is only a few days to Christmas, I thought I would make a little cavalcade of games with a Christmas theme, and what better game to start with than this little pearl called Oknytt?

In a previous midweek puzzle I featured Keepsake and talked about being able to manipulate the weather, and as Sefir noted, Oknytt does this to a much greater extend. If you look closely at the screenshot, you might be able to make out 4 runes, fire, water, air and earth.

Sometimes clicking these will only have a small effect, but at other times they have much larger and dramatical effects like summoning a thunder storm with lighting and everything. Often manipulating the weather or using the runes to manipulate your environment in this way, is a critical part of the puzzle solutions, but what I really love about this is that even when it isn’t, then it always have some effect, even if it is just summoning an earthworm that will slowly crawl across the screen

By now some of you are probably thinking, “Yea, that is all very fine, but what has this got to do with Christmas?”, well, let me tell you what:

Oknytt is very much based on Scandinavian folklore, and some of the creatures you will meet in this game are especially linked to Christmas. In fact some of them plays the role of Santa’s little helpers in the Scandinavian Christmas traditions, and you should always remember to leave some rice pudding for them at Christmas, otherwise they will make trouble.

And NO, I’m not talking about the creature in the above screenshot, but instead of this (and others you will meet in the game) “Nisse”:

This game must have a cult following. I had never heard of it until it started showing up on the AGCPT voting lists. Looks like a game I might enjoy whenever I get a chance to put a new game on my to-do list. (I think something opens up in around mid-2019. 

rtrooney - 16 December 2015 06:38 PM

This game must have a cult following.

I wouldn’t call it a cult, after all the robes are not mandatory, and we only meet once a month.

But it is a game that was overlooked by many when it was released, but pretty much everybody I know that have played it, has also loved it!

Iznogood - 16 December 2015 08:02 PM

rtrooney - 16 December 2015 06:38 PM

This game must have a cult following.

I wouldn’t call it a cult, after all the robes are not mandatory, and we only meet once a month.

But it is a game that was overlooked by many when it was released, but pretty much everybody I know that have played it, has also loved it!

I see what you’re doing!! You’re preparing the cult ground so that Oknytt wins the next playthrough voting! Well no, Sir, if Geoffroi Le Brun has anything to say about it!

Also, how many thread logos do you need?! Geez.