Draugen

About this game

Draugen is a single-player, first-person Fjord Noir tale of suspense, mystery and deception, set in 1920s Norway. Winner of Game of the Year and Best Audio awards at Spillprisen (the Norwegian Game Awards). Nominated for Best Art at the Nordic Game Awards.

About Draugen

From the studio that brought you Dreamfall Chapters, and the creative team behind The Longest Journey and The Secret World, comes a first-person psychological mystery set in 1920s Norway.

The year is 1923. You play Edward Charles Harden, an American traveller — and increasingly unreliable narrator — who's come to Norway to find his missing sister. But you're never alone: every step of the way, Edward is accompanied by Lissie: a lively and enigmatic young woman with a mind of her own.

Together with Edward and Lissie, you must explore a forgotten coastal community nestled amongst the dark fjords and towering mountains of rural Norway, and unearth the terrible secrets that lie beneath the picturesque surface. And what begins as a quest for a missing woman becomes a journey into a painful past.

Key features

• "I am not alone": explore 1920s Norway. accompanied by a living, breathing, independent companion
  
• Interact with your companion through a realistic and dynamic dialogue system
  
• Experience a thrilling tale through the eyes of an increasingly unreliable narrator
  
• Find your own path through a scenic setting that changes with the weather and your mental state
  
• "A story about what lies beneath": piece together a gripping and suspenseful narrative with unexpected twists and turns

Additional features

• An award-winning and beautiful original musical score from composer Simon Poole (Dreamfall, The Secret World, The Park, Dreamfall Chapters)
  
• Written by Ragnar Tørnquist (The Longest Journey, Dreamfall, The Secret World, Dreamfall Chapters)
  
• Designed and developed by the team behind Dreamfall Chapters
  
• Fully voiced in English, with motion-captured characters

Latest news

• Announcements·14 Feb 2025Official

  Draugen is now on Discord!

  Long time, no see! But we missed you and actually have a small community update for Draugen… *Pretend there’s a drumroll sound here* Our Discord has been updated to include Draugen (along with our other older games)! This means there’s finally a place to discuss the Fretland brothers or share fan art of Lissie. We’re still working hard to create games we think you’d enjoy, and Discord is one of the best places to keep up to date. There will also be some exclusive giveaways for old RTG merch in the future, but you probably don’t care about that. Free merch… Given away for free… People tend to not like that kind of stuff. Anyway, we’d love to see you there! You can join through the QR code below or by clicking this link: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/33929866/0e756d1576bc6abfa184edff91150610c31db234.png
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• Press Coverage·10 Dec 2020

  Have you played… Draugen?

  Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time. Draugen is described as a “fjord noir”, a story-heavy mystery set in an isolated (in fact, abandoned) town in 1920s Norway. It’s also got a character called Alice in it, which is a good sign. She’s the teenage ward of bookish American nerd Edward, and he’s dragged her half way across the world to Graavik to find his missing sister Betty. Things, predictably, aren’t what they seem. (more…)
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• Press Coverage·13 Jun 2020

  Wield weaponised words in Dreamfall dev's new game Dustborn

  Red Thread Games, the Norwegian developer behind Dreamfall Chapters and Draugen, has revealed a brand new game called Dustborn. It's a storied, single-player action adventure about a black lady called Pax who recruits and leads a group of misfit friends with weird powers on a road-trip across the Divided States of America (that's how it's referred to). It's brightly coloured and looks like a graphic novel in motion, and it's going to have more action than in previous Red Thread games. Brilliantly, you'll also be able to wield weaponised words. They'll be fuelled by misinformation and used to fight, manipulate and motivate. Read more
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• Announcements·29 May 2020Official

  Draugen's one year anniversary sale

  "Has it really been one year, Lissie?" "It has, Teddy bear. And what a year!" "I must admit, the days blur together in this forsaken hole under the hills." "Oh, don't be a Debbie Downer. We're lucky! There are worse places to be stuck than Graavik." "Are there? I've eaten enough dried cod and potato soup to last me a lifetime." "But the fresh air! The soft grass! The mountains and the fjord! All this space to frolic around in!" "I'll leave the frolicking to you. I'm going for a nap." "You're such a dreadful bore, Edward. Come on, learn to live a little!" Join Edward and Lissie and Red Thread Games in celebrating the first anniversary of Draugen. And what a year it has been! With the successful launch of our game on Steam, followed by the PlayStation and Xbox ports this February, we've been able to share our story with many thousands of people around the globe. And reading the feedback from players across the world, from Norway to China, from Russia to the U.S., and every place in-between makes it all worth it. If you haven't travelled to 1920s Graavik yet, and helped our intrepid adventurers track down Edward's missing sister, this is the perfect time to do so. You can save 50% until 10AM Pacific Time Sunday, and begin your journey into the fjords today! What's next for Draugen? We'll be releasing a new edition of the game "soon", with a bunch of wonderful extras. Tentatively titled "The Fjord Edition", everyone who's already purchased Draugen will get the update for FREE...including everyone who buys the game during the one year anniversary sale. So there's no reason to wait! We're also planning an anniversary stream with key members of the development team, to talk about the creative process and production of Draugen. When we know more, we'll post an announcement right here. Thanks to everyone who's bought and played Draugen so far, and to all of our new players we say: Velkommen til Graavik!
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• Press Coverage·3 Feb 2020

  Draugen - Konsolen-Releasetermin zum psychologischen Story-Adventure bestätigt

  Das norwegische Entwicklerstudio Red Thread Games hat den Konsolen-Releasetermin ihres jüngsten Werks Draugen verkündet, das bereits Mitte letzten Jahres sein Debüt auf dem PC feierte. Die Macher von "Dreamfall Chapters" erzählen in ihrem neuesten Spiel eine "Fjord Noir Geschichte" im Norwegen der 1920er » Komplette News auf pressakey.com lesen
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