Planned Release Date: 2027

About This Game

Norway, 1989. The bus drops you above a fjord village with a tent, a bag and 1450 kroner. Nobody is expecting you.

Find somewhere to stay

Read the notes on the board outside the shop and ring the numbers from a phone box. Split firewood for a neighbour, pack fish into crates at the quay, wash plates at the hotel. Save up for a room, pitch your tent at the campground, or sleep in a boathouse until the owner finds you there.

The village notices

People keep their own hours, and they remember what they see.

• Break into a house and the owner counts what's missing when they get home. If anyone saw you, the lensmann hears about it
• A neighbour can ring for help, unless you cut the phone line first
• Set a house on fire and the volunteer fire brigade turns out
• Anyone can die, the lensmann too. The village carries on without them, and it remembers who did it
• Something is killing the sheep up at Lia, and the farmers are loading their rifles

Get by however you can

• Pick a lock with a paper clip, force it with a chisel or climb in through a window
• Hunt deer in the woods, or fish the fjord and sell your catch
• Borrow a moped without asking, hotwire a car or row out to the island

The days are getting shorter and winter is coming. Utkant is Norwegian for "the outskirts". It is a solo project in development.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

Utkant is a solo project developed with the help of AI coding assistants. The store page text and some in-game writing were drafted with AI assistance, then reviewed and edited by the developer. Nothing is generated by AI while you play.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

Utkant contains realistic violence and gore. You can hunt and butcher animals, and anyone in the village can be hurt or killed, with blood and wounds shown. People and animals can be burned alive, and burned bodies remain in the world.