Bracken Tor became Barrow Hill: The Dark Path according to the developer Matt Clark as he himself told me.

Bracken Tor became Barrow Hill: The Dark Path according to the developer Matt Clark as he himself told me.

Bracken Tor is it’s own storyline and game, set in very different new locations. Not the same as The Dark Path or Barrow Hill. The Dark Path’s narrative, puzzle and graphics were never part of Bracken Tor with exception to some of the woodlands graphic screens and the inside of the garage. Those were going to appear in Bracken Tor as a side story but that has since been dropped.

Dark Path explores barrow hills original locations and new ones nearby for its ‘10 years on’ separate story, with the spirit of a Shaman witch awoken from slumber.

Bracken Tor story explores the moors, legends of beasts protecting ancient sites and transports the player back into pockets of the Bronze Age in order to face The Trails of the past, as The Wild Hunt awake.

What is shared with all titles are characters and local world elements. In Barrow Hill you learnt about local character, those evolved and some appeared in Dark Path, but you also had some new characters introduced such as Agatha an archaeologist of antiquity who’s unfortunate ‘work’ disturbed ancient sites and set in motion event. In Bracken Tor we find out what happens/happened with Agatha and the disappearance at a archaeology dig in the 60s.

In all games there’s hints to the Wychwood storyline which I hope return to and rebuild at a later date.

And many characters cross over between games still.

Oh and so Bracken Tor is still coming - rebuilding in a new game engine but keeping as point and click, and will likely arrive relabelled as Barrow Hill: The Bracken Tor or similar (Bracken Tor still for me, in the same way I call game 2 Dark Path)

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