Planned Release Date: 2026

About This Game

Still Pines: Watchtower is a first-person psychological horror mystery set deep in a frozen forest. You play as Claire, a broke college student who accepts a temporary wildlife reporting job at an isolated fire lookout tower. What starts as a quiet winter assignment quickly becomes something much darker when Claire discovers the old logbook of the previous ranger, Halpern, who vanished years before.

Explore a semi-open snowy forest, follow trails through dense pine woods, search the watchtower for clues, and uncover what happened before Claire arrived. As the nights pass, the forest becomes more dangerous, the weather worsens, and something begins watching from the trees.

Players will investigate the environment, read logbook entries, manage visibility in the dark, use a flashlight to navigate, follow story objectives, and survive tense encounters while trying to understand the mystery of Still Pines.

Key Features:

- First-person psychological horror gameplay

- Semi-open snowy forest exploration

- Story-driven mystery about Claire and the missing ranger Halpern

- Isolated lookout tower setting

- Flashlight-based navigation in dark environments

- Environmental clues and logbook entries

- Objective-based progression

- Atmospheric weather, darkness, wind, and eerie sound design

- Cinematic intro sequence

- Single-player experience

Still Pines: Watchtower is designed for players who enjoy atmospheric horror, mystery, exploration, and slow-building tension.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

Still Pines: Watchtower contains occasional strong language, including words like “fuck,” “shit,” and other similar profanity. The game also includes horror atmosphere, tension, and frightening moments. There is no sexual content.