Simogo’s haunting and snowy adventure game Year Walk has only been out on the App Store for a couple of weeks, but we’re still reliving every breathtaking step of the mysterious journey as if it were just yesterday. Well now the Swedish developer has begun to fill up the Simogo blog with all sorts of cool stuff from the early days of Year Walk, which show us how the game came to be, and what it looked like from as far back as some of the initial planning stages.

Year Walk is a first person adventure game from Simogo where you must traverse through dimensions and solve puzzles along the way. Gamezebo’s quick start strategy guide will provide you with detailed images, tips, information, and hints on how to play your best game.

The crunch. Days after finishing Year Walk, it’s the persistent, echoing crunch of snow that has stuck with me. It doesn’t help that I live in perpetually blustery Ottawa, Ontario, where a boot print full of powder is never more than a couple steps outside your door during February. Now, however, I half expect the world to drop away between one stride and the next, the pedestrian-packed streets replaced with a harrowing wood filled with mystical creatures. A minute detail that has - much like the game it came from - wormed its way inside my brain and left a small, indelible mark. Like a footprint in the snow.

For over a week, something very mysterious has been going on at Simogo HQ. The Swedish duo behind Beat Sneak Bandit and Bumpy Road has been teasing out facts about their fourth game in the form of a picture, .gif, and even morse code-based scavenger hunt. Astute fans on the Touch Arcade forums got as far as decoding the game’s tentative name - Lake Wary - to identify a domain owned by Simogo: yearwalk.com. Today, that domain went live, and it seems the mystery? It’s only beginning. 

Now I know what you’re thinking, and the answer is no. We just met, and I’d like to stay friends for a little while. But seriously folks, I am in fact making a post about Twitter. Because far from being the hub for finding out what sandwich your favorite celebrity just ate, the micro-blogging platform has exploded into a place to keep in touch with relevant news from a personal angle.

When it comes to fun ways to spend an evening, breaking and entering probably doesn't sit too high on your list. After playing Beat Sneak Bandit, though, you may want reconsider this. The game proves that burglary — combined with a little rhythm and a lot of style — is easily one of the most entertaining activities you could possibly be involved with.

Rhythm games were a dime a dozen just a couple years ago. Now that the hype from series like Guitar Hero and Rock Band has died down, developers are looking for unique ideas to revive the genre. That's where Beat Sneak Bandit is trying to sneak in. Simogo, who developed other iOS titles such as Kosmo Spin and Bumpy Road, looks to steal our preconceived notions of rhythm games and kick them to the curb.