With your first step you can hear the crunch of leaves, your shoes picking up dirt.as you walk what seems like miles to even get to Red Creek Valley. From the first second you are sinking into grass, surrounded by nature. Without even touching other elements, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter by The Astronauts is a beautiful game. These places are so rare that it’s difficult to get through Ethan Carter without stopping to stare at the sun peeking out over the mountains, to escape into another world for a couple of hours. The flora is overgrown in Red Creek Valley, weeds sticking through the spaces in the railroad tracks and leaves littering paths between buildings.
If you were to drive through the American Midwest or the South and really search for them, you can find glimpses of places like this: spaces untouched by the city, where the people can’t hope to stop the onslaught of nature. Red Creek Valley is an old mining town with sparse, separated buildings, a church that probably wouldn’t pack the town’s population, and its own complex, if limited, history. There’s something very familiar about the picturesque setting of The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, even if it’s hard to believe that a place like it could exist.
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