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Descending The WoodsEventsBIGGEST MAJOR UPDATE & NEW MAJOR EXPANSION IS COMING + FULL RELEASE DATE
Major update

BIGGEST MAJOR UPDATE & NEW MAJOR EXPANSION IS COMING + FULL RELEASE DATE

Descending The Woods · published 16 Jun 2025, 21:27 UTC

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Massive content are coming

Empty your minds and lend me your eyes

GPS, a handheld portable device, satellite view of the entire region with potential paranormal places already marked by your HQ.


It can also track when you have been and explored.
The GPS could still malfunction in high-activity areas, as all electronic devices.

Lots of new major paranormal locations and places-of-interest are added in the woods.
They are interactive and coming in large and small sizes.


You may come across aftermath of different places, to name a few, tourist camping site, cabins, or the witch, or stone formations with paranormal powers...

These locations also brings their own set of items,


Yes, you can play with the ball in this picture.

For example you may find weapons, money stacks or Portable Electricity Generator at a large camping site, pick it up and place it anywhere you need electricity, including inside the woods.

The woods will be rich with different interactable places and events, including secrets behind puzzled entrance, as all cursed woods should be.
Explore the woods and see where the rabbit hole takes you.

Water sources are more dangerous as Lakes are now a habitant of crocodiles.

The Plot


Welcome to Cinderfall Woods

Starting a new farm, will show a prologue of where you are, where you're coming from, and what has happened.
Discover what happened to the Cinderfall woods that plunged it into fog and darkness.

New Terrifying Entities


Including major ones, the witch, and her bodyguard.
You may encounter any of them anywhere anytime, as they roam their cursed land.
if you do you better run and hide.

Bigger Farm with the option to start there instead.
New farm animal, new crops.

The farm app is finally installed and available in the computer.

New wildlife animals, Deer, Crocodile and boar.

Female Character Addition


She'll be joining the haunt.

Mausoleums Expansion

The Mausoleums in the deep woods will be more intense to explore! They are now filled with treasures, puzzles and horror.


Successful treasure extraction will reward you with $$$$.

And the Biggest addition,
Aside from all above, we'll be getting a complete new game mode, that might deserve its own game.

Be part of the curse investigation team,

In this new mode, grab your EMFs, Blacklight and any gears along with a Soil Measurement tool!

Go into a curse site in the woods, identify the curse using your tools, based on evidence, and get out (alive if possible).
don't forget your friends.

The curse sites are at initial stage before their climax, so they don't involve fog barriers or paranormal entities, maybe.
Things could go wrong while you're investigating.

This mode could take anywhere from 5 min to 30 min to complete.
15 types of curse, and 8 evidence.

And it's not just that,
The update also brings more fixes and adjustments to the gameplay.

To conclude, this major update add tons of content, and we are getting out of the Early Access.

The full release is expected after this major update, a few weeks apart.

JOIN US!

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