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Former developers from Bethesda, BioWare, and Naughty Dog bring you a sandbox RPG realm of anthropomorphic animals and fairy creatures. Play co-op or solo as you build a village of memorable NPCs, farm, craft, explore, and celebrate the seasons in an ever-changing world bigger than you.

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Hawthorn at Future Games Show 2025

Mar 15

Hawthorn will premiere a brand new trailer with NEARstudios developers discussing never before seen gameplay footage at Future Games Show this coming Thursday, March 20th at 4pm EST. The trailer will help promote our upcoming Kickstarter[www.playhawthorn.com].

Please tune in and follow our Kickstarter page to be the first to see our early bird offers and exclusive content when the Kickstarter goes live!

Here's the official promo for Hawthorn's involvement in the FGS showcase. Please follow, like and comment:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/x6Nu9U_rGlw

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AI-Generated Content in Hawthorn? An Absolute Travesty!

Look, I've got ONE word for Hawthorn: Betrayal. A betrayal of everything sacred in the world of cozy woodland creatures and whimsical trading posts. Sure, they say they aren't shipping with AI-generated content, but did you read between the lines? AI-generated placeholders, my friends! The horror! The audacity! Imagine the innocent woodland villagers and forest tricksters, painstakingly built with nothing but love and handcrafted artistry, suddenly marred by the cold, lifeless touch of AI. What are we supp...

GameDotExe

Oct 14, 2024 @ 1:55pm

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Hawthorn Coming Soon on Kickstarter

Dec 11, 2024

We are excited to reveal that we are bringing Hawthorn to Kickstarter! Our Kickstarter Coming Soon page is live and will be premiered later today during the Women-Led Games Showcase - The Game Awards Edition! Please follow us on this Kickstarter journey as we build this nostalgic world for all to enjoy!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nearstudios/hawthorn

Please click the "Notify me on Launch" button on the Kickstarter page to receive a notification when the Kickstarter officially launches.

We also need your help sharing this page as widely as possible to help with visibility. We are depending entirely on organic word of mouth for this campaign.

You can keep an eye out for Hawthorn on the Women-Led Games Showcase here starting at 7pm EST:

www.youtube.com/@Women-LedGames

We are excited to work with our community to bring this game that we are incredibly passionate about to the world! ❤️ Look out for more details about gameplay and the world of Hawthorn in the coming month!

Thank you for your support!

Hawthorn Dev Team

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Hawthorn Dev Q&A

Dec 6, 2024

Hey everyone!

We’re thrilled to share that we'll be hosting our first-ever developer Q&A session in our Discord[www.discord.gg] server on Dec. 10th from 3:00 - 4:00 PM EST!

Our Director of Community & Creator Relations and host for this event, Andy Belford, will be joined by the following panel guests for this initial session focused on who we are as a studio:

• Heather Cerlan, Co-Founder & CEO
• Jason Richardson, Co-Founder & Game Director
• Bjorn Taylor, Lead Designer

We love seeing the questions you all have posted so far and we’re excited to bring our whole community together in one place to answer your most burning questions about the team’s background or life at NEARstudios in general!

We intend to host many more Q&As in the coming months to highlight a variety of topics and team members, including a session centered around the world and lore in January, so make sure to join us on Discord www.discord.gg/hawthorn for the opportunity to learn more about the world of Hawthorn before anyone else! Also, be sure to follow our social channels to see more content about the game.

Here's the link to the Discord Stage Event:
https://discord.gg/hawthorn?event=1315197535366676481

Submit your questions here:
https://discord.com/channels/1175009216566657034/1175010990883086406/1314636795501088819

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Wishlisted and then removed

No AI in games development, please. I don't care if you "promise" not to use AI assets in the game or that humans will retouch what's generated. Looks like it could be a fun game but any AI assisted product is an instant refusal for me.

genius.in.disguise

Nov 19, 2024 @ 3:59pm

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Being made with unpaid workers

Bloomberg has a big sob story write up about this ridiculous developer. The most insane part of the whole thing is how the con (wo)man running the company has convinced all of her 12 employees to work on the game without paying them anything: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-10-18/viral-new-indie-video-game-hawthorn-has-a-tragic-backstory...

Mr. Lambert

Feb 22 @ 10:04am

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This looks like Redwall the Game and I'm here for it.

Think I can build the Abbey? Will there be badgers and hares?

SoleReclaimer

Mar 3 @ 4:01am

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Anytime a game is advertised as "Former developers of" its a flop.

IDK why this seems to be the trend now where game developers or publishers think we care who is working on the product they are trying to sell. Oh they got John Skyrim working on this? Damn this game must be good, just like my favoritest game ever Skyrim, which John worked on apparently... We don't care. We want good games not good names. "Former developers of left for dead" and then you get back 4 blood which was horrible. This game looks like it was made 2 days ago, if these are the "former developers" ...

President Donald Trump

Oct 14, 2024 @ 5:04am

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