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As Talma, an elderly holdout on a remote farm, tend goats and crops, trade with a visitor, and read unsettling city letters.
Released 07 Feb 2019
Milk Goats
Churn Goat Cheese
Barter Farm Goods
A quiet game of life and loss. One by one, everyone left the village for the city. Everyone, except Talma. Approaching her final years, she maintains a simple way of life tending to her homestead, surviving, subsisting, whilst increasingly disturbing letters arrive from her family in the city.
Developed by Memory of God, Lambic Studios · Published by Fellow Traveller
Talma lives alone on a remote homestead after her family and the rest of her village leave for the city. As she approaches her final years, a visiting merchant brings supplies and letters that offer glimpses of life beyond the farm.
Build a daily routine around caring for goats and chickens, making cheese, collecting eggs, growing and watering vegetables, and preparing food. You decide how to spend each day as Talma moves slowly and has limited time for her chores.
Barter farm goods with the merchant for supplies, seeds, fables, and other items. You can also forage and explore the surrounding desert, inspect objects around the homestead, and read letters that gradually develop the story.
Players who connect with the game often praise its reflective story about aging, isolation, and loss, especially the way family letters give the farm routine emotional context. Its quiet atmosphere, visual style, and soundscape also leave a strong impression for some, while others find the slow chores and unresolved story frustrating.
One by one, everyone left the once bustling village for the city. Everyone, except Talma. Now approaching the end of her days, she maintains a simple, solitary way of life, surviving, subsisting, tending to her homestead and her goats.
Develop your own personal routine as you care for your farm and your animals. Tend to your goats, make cheese with their milk, collect eggs and cook meals, grow vegetables and barter with the travelling merchant who brings increasingly disturbing letters from your family in the city.
A follow up to the critically acclaimed Where the Goats Are, The Stillness of the Wind is a quiet rumination on life and loss.
Breed and look after your goats, make cheese from their milk, grow vegetables, water your plants, collect eggs, scare off the birds. It’s a hard but simple life of peaceful subsistence.
The travelling merchant brings letters from your family and friends and with them a view into a city that feels both very far away and as if it threatens to wash away the world you know.
It's up to you how you spend Talma’s time each day and what your routine will be. Focus on your chores, wander in the desert, reminisce about the past or draw patterns in the dirt.
Trade cheese and other items in return for hay for your goats, seeds to plant, fables, exotic items and shotgun shells, whilst exchanging conversation with the travelling merchant, your only human interaction.
Where the Goats Are was Memory of God's first game. The Stillness of the Wind will be a follow up, expanding on the original concept.
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"While Tikvah and her goats might meet an ultimately tragic end, the fleeting, quiet moments before this asked me to appreciate the small things while I could. "
Lewis Gordon, Waypoint
"Where the Goats Are seems to unfold like a tableau."
Stephanie Chan, GamesBeat
"I like its simplicity, and the solace that comes from designing your own daily routine."
Samuel Horti, Rock Paper Shotgun
| Platforms | Windows, macOS |
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| Age ratings |
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| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 1 listed on Steam |
| Metacritic | 76/100 View on Metacritic |
