My favorite of the franchise so far

Stupid jumpscares and recycled mechanics from previous episodes. The best part of the game are the minigames. Extremely uninspired.

This series holds a special place in my heart. There's something wonderful that can be said about the work Rayll has done from Episode 1 to now, about the vibrant and amazing fan community that grew from the game, and about the interesting stories that have been told, culminating in probably one of the best ones in the whole series: Woodbury Getaway. It's been a labor of love from the developer with all the support he's had from the community.

The game follows a young Sydney Harper ending a late shift at her consulting firm when her old college friend, Mike, calls her up to get her to rent a cabin out in Woodbury, Vermont for a weekend getaway with her and their other mutual friend Nora. From the trip out to Vermont, to the spooky things that happen there, Woodbury Getaway offers you quite the thriller.


Woodbury Getaway has a decent amount more to do from its predecessor, Ironbark Lookout , with a variation of the cooking mechanics we saw in Episode 4. There's also fishing, which I noticed the mechanic is very reminiscent of Stardew Valley's fishing mechanic. What kind of fish you catch depends on the bait you use and so on. The driving mechanic also returned along with the use of the Ouija Board game later on throughout the story. All-in-all, I'm impressed with how much there was to do and it really helped ground the player into the environment as the story unraveled.

Something I noticed (without spoiling too much) is that the game is a return to its original roots in the home invasion trope that we saw in Home Alone and Carson House . While a lot of the fandom absolutely loved Ironbark Lookout because it detracted from the home invasions to match a more horror-themed Firewatch type of game, I thought it was refreshing to see it return here because I strongly believe that trope makes up the backbone of the current series. The dialogue, the mystery, and the suspense are still in-line with the F2F standard.

Neb and the team was cooking with the soundtrack. The latest track, "Be Sincere" is a perfect match that plays in the initial parts of the game. The instrumental tracks that compliment the scenes are also very well put together. The track that plays while you fished was my favorite - it was very calm and serene. I honestly feel that the music in the series is greatly underappreciated, and they do well in bolstering the theme of the games.


There was some partial work done for Mike and voicework for Nora, but I honestly wish there was more included from those two and perhaps the rest of the cast as a whole. I know that the franchise has never really had voice overs and it's one of the charms of the games, but I feel like at this point some more voice work would be appreciated and perhaps help grow the games into something new that have additional lines of voiced dialogue.

The antagonists can often be mysterious or never known throughout the games until the very end, but with this episode, you could tell who the final imposter/killer was going to be from the first initial interactions. They throw in a red herring with another character to mislead you, as they've done in previous games, but the killer in this one stood out like a sore thumb - to the point when the story ended, I wasn't surprised in the slightest. Sort of killed the reveal.

On the subject of the ending, I honestly felt like the climax and ending were seriously rushed. I always felt like there was adequate build up to the climax in the last two games, but with this one, it felt off. There was nothing that built up the suspense of the mystery and most of the story involved Mike's strange obsession with Sydney and his attempts to woo her. In previous games, we saw clues leading up to the mysterious killer - but here, it all came forth at once. It sort of caught me off guard the reminder that this was supposed to be a thriller story because of the lack of build up.


Even with my small bits of critique, I still very much enjoyed the game and the story. The amount of work done in this installment compared to the previous ones is very apparent and a credit to Rayll's hard work towards developing these titles. All-in-all, I think Woodbury Getaway ends on a high note for the series and cements F2F as a great thriller franchise.

Now that the final episode is done, I'm not sure what's going to happen next. Maybe there'll be another F2F series pushed out, and maybe we'll see even better work done by Rayll. Either way, this one has been very fun and worth the playthrough. All of F2F play like actual thriller tv/movie shows so you sort of almost forget you're playing a video game because the stories are always so immersive!

If you're thinking about picking this one up, look no further, give it a try!