Year Walk is a rather unsettling yet so very intriguing game. It is based on Swedish folklore, featuring creatures and experiences from their myths. Year Walking is a folklore that features the idea of trying to know the future,  even if it costs you.

Just a forewarning, I do mention some of the triggering/slightly gorey stuff, such as the infant deaths, the brook horse, etc.

• The game is in a first-person setting, and to start, you meet with a woman, presumably your lover who is going to marry someone else. Our character most likely mentions year walking, as the woman mentions what happened to her cousin and that it is dangerous. She sends us off by saying we shouldn't do anything foolish.

• We go back to our cottage and it turns to nighttime, we are also in a rather snowy setting, and now we have the opportunity to explore, several pathways are connected and some that are not, but eventually we come across these gates that lead to the church, but they are locked- although we do see a woman emerge, a Huldra we later learn, a woman of the forest. She seems to have the key we are looking for but disappears before we can get it.

• So now we trek through the forest again, looking for the Huldra, and soon we do find her and we follow her, she reveals a path we can take now to a tree, where two owls are perched, but she disappears into the tree and we can't get in. The owls are a part of a musical puzzle.

• The musical puzzle features a rather creepy-looking wooden doll in a tool shed, you spin the doll head and when you finish spinning it, it starts to unwind and plays an unsettling song, its arms pointing towards two different owls on opposite sides- these owls represent the owls on the tree and this wooden doll is the answer to the puzzle. However, when the doll finishes spinning its head, its face turns bloody on the last note and looks a lot more unsettling than before.

• When you use the pattern from the doll and get the tree to open up, you are met with another puzzle, another music-related one but you have to match these glowing portions of humming voices to the music in the background, after you get I believe 5 correct you can find the Huldra, where you then are seemingly(?) pushed out of the tree, and get jump scared by the woman. But, we got the key! . . .Nope it turned to water now.

• After a bit more wandering you come across a log that allows you to cross a stream, where you find a goat in a suit. This is the Brook Horse, another creature, who apparently would lure people onto its back and then drown them. But hovering around the Brook Horse and infants, Mylings to be specific. Mylings were spirits that were most of the time infants who died and needed to be properly buried. We had to go around the map to find these infants, most of the time seeing glimpses of how they died, following their trails of blood to find each of them and bring them back to the Brook Horse. (After doing so the stream turns red and it appears the souls of the children are now brought together to create a flame) 

• After completing the task you see the key appear, and then get snatched by a raven, but now that we have the flame we can go to this area where an almost bunker-like room is located, where we then use the flame to find the ladder and climb up to find the raven- and after clicking on it multiple times the raven, which is the Night Raven, emerges and drops the key, finally allowing us to go into the church.

• The church features a puzzle, but after you get past that you are met with the final creature of the game it appears, the Church Grim, apparently a guardian spirit of sorts. When you come face to face with it you are meant to click on the heart until it bursts- and then break away the shattered glass. After going through a final sequence of puzzles and ominous text, we see a grassy field and then soon we find the woman, our lover, dead. 

• There is another part of the game, you can go through it again. There is also a box that holds lots of secrets that kinda give you a broader perspective on the events in the game. Once you open the box you find a news article that talks about a man who was executed for the murder of a woman last year, and you see a doctor argue that the man was suffering from an abnormal psyche, having problems discerning past from present, and has terrible visions of creatures, it seems he might have been diagnosed with schizophrenia. We learn that the executioner was supposed to perform an execution on a woman who was charged with the murder of four infants but took her own life before the sentence could be carried out. 

• We also see a rather ominous note, to quote "You are long dead when I write this, and I have not yet been born. Yet we have a connection beyond life, death, space, and time. The impossible is made possible by year walking. But the Watchers always win. Even though you've not passed through the rift yet, they sense the urge and they want their sacrifice. I wish there could be another way. I am sorry. But for her, there is still hope. You can save her. You know what you must do."