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The Endless Forest is a multiplayer online game and social screensaver, a virtual place where you can play with your friends. When your computer goes to sleep you appear as a deer in this magical place. There are no goals to achieve or rules to follow. Just run through the forest and see what happens. You are a deer. So are the other players. You meet each other in an endless forest on the internet. The setting is idyllic, the atmosphere peaceful. You communicate with one another through sounds and body language.

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December 2005
Tale of Tales
MMOG
Windows
Multiplayer
Custom

Freeware
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Paulpaul 5
Indie games are often distinctive from the rest of the mainstream: more artsy, more focus on personal idiosyncrasy, experimental, breaking conventions, and just plain weirder. In that sense, the games of Tale-of-Tales are to indie games what indie games are to mainstream games.

This game has been described as a massively multiplayer online screensaver: it’s a peaceful place that your computer takes you to occasionally, where deer with human faces play, all controlled by a real person. Without the ability to talk to each other, they can only invent games, like chasing each other or running around each other.

There are no goals, challenges, or anything like that, it’s just a place to appreciate beauty with other people in silence – being able to talk to them would ruin it, just as talking to people about a powerful emotion that you both are experiencing ruins it. And sure, going to a real forest with someone might be a good alternative, but not everyone has forests nearby, and this is more convenient.

My only complaint (although this doesn’t keep it from full marks) is that it requires a very beefy computer to play, a strong 3D card is a must. With my NVIDIA 8500 GT, which is (as of 2009) current generation but not a “gamer’s” card, I don’t achieve 30 fps.