
Step into the hilariously twisted world of Wildwood Down, a side-splitting comedy thriller. Featuring a protagonist with Down Syndrome. (Inspired by and voice acted by the Dev's childhood friend!) Perfect for fans of the P-n-C adventure genre and new comers looking for a wild heartfelt ride!
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Wildwood Down is about a chummy high school senior with Down syndrome who gets thrown head first into a murder mystery along the boardwalk of Wildwood, New Jersey.
With his sister's life on the line, Dan must unravel the case all while navigating eccentric characters and his own unique perspective before time runs out!

The main character is voice-acted by the Dev's childhood friend / brother from another mother Daniel himself. He has down-syndrome, a fantastic sense of humor, and loves video games. If anyone deserves his own game it's this guy.

8-10+ hours of Story-Driven Gameplay
A Full Cast of Professional Voice Talent
Original Soundtrack "Surf Rock Noir" (Live Instruments)
Funny Rewarding Puzzles with Minimal "Moon Logic"
Retro Hand Drawn frame-by-frame Pixel Art
Full Controller Support (Designed with Steam-Deck in mind)
Cinematic 3d - Camera Work / Sound / Lighting
The protagonist Daniel finds himself making donuts, winning an underground wrestling tournament, and getting thrown out of bars in-order to unveil the murderer of his good friend and hopefully save his sister.
The visuals are a "first-in-it's-class" for the P&C genre. A combination of 2D pixel and 3D graphics with a unique art style that presents eye popping scenery. Wildwood Down pulls players into it's world: cinematic camera work, a 3d soundscape, full character voice acting, and rich retrograde pixel art.
Provides an immersive adventure with quirky but lovable characters full of jokes, spoofs, and other humorous scenes. Be ‘Dan,’ and unravel the sinister plot of the "Boardwalk Butcher" and help the high school seniors party on and save your sister!
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Languages: English**languages with full audio support
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A cute point and click adventure, with a 'special' antagonist. I'm still playing, so I don't know how it ends, but I'm very engaged in the plot.
Very good game!
Great game
Just beat the game and it’s really worth giving it a try. It’s a great story with an interesting cast of characters. And at the end it’s very sweet.
More people need to play this, if you like the genre give it a go.
I like the idea of protagonist with Down Syndrome, but the story is not fun at all. + Some parts of the game (like the arcade) is not easy to play with Steam Deck because both buttons we need to push are at the right side of the controller. Would be a better experience with a mouse.
I have to confess I did not think the game would be any good, but it is awesome. It is a unique art style, the characters are outrageous, the puzzles are a lot of fun an the story is weird and entertaining. It feels new but also old school. And Daniel is just so likeable.
this is genuniely a great game with a great story and great likeable characters and its very entertaining and great and i love wildwood new jersey soooooooo much it is very nice watch the tram car please :)
Had a very fun and refreshing feel to the classic S.C.U.M.M. games like day of the tentacle, Sam and Max games and many lucas arts games with a little twist. The character animation and art style reminded me of the show Code Monkeys too. Fun game for sure and would recommend anyone to try it out if they love point and click puzzle games. Had a little of everything to enjoy the game. Awesome job and can't wait to see what other ideas you have in store. Thank You!
I was really worried that this game would be somehow exploitative of Daniel but I was really pleasantly surprised to see, through the whole game, that Daniel is the man. There are people around him who love him, who annoy him, who are good, evil, or just regular humans. I talked with some SPED professionals I know who were really interested in checking it out as well! Great hint system, though I only really needed to use it in a couple of places and towards the end. Also really appreciate the options to skip the various skill-based challenges. Opening movie had me hooked and I bought it after only a few minutes of the demo because I knew this one was special.
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