The Forest Cathedral review – an unnaturally intense ecological puzzle game

PC, Xbox; Whitethorn Games
This brief, raw and unsettling reimagining of a celebrated environmentalist’s campaign against pesticides presents a sickly vision of nature contaminated by humansVideo games are often getaways to ravishing natural worlds. The Forest Cathedral transports you to one whose beauty is a little too intense, mixing the showroom gloss of stock graphics with the awful vividness of Sylvia Plath’s hospital tulips. It’s a first-person puzzle game based on the wo