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With a tea-making fantasy game, Davey Wreden gets real

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The Stanley Parable and The Beginner’s Guide developer Davey Wreden returns in search of inner peace.

The game, Wanderstop , is a tea-making fantasy game set in an almost impossibly quaint forest clearing.

It is part farming simulator, part narrative adventure and part tea shop.

The 36-year-old Californian grew up in easygoing Sacramento .

The Stanley Parable and The Beginner’s Guide were developed with Source, the engine used to create the seminal 2004 shooter Half-Life 2.

With Wanderstop , the goal was to not worry about genre-shaking impact at all.

Wreden 's career has been built on making restless video games about deep interior unease.

Making Wanderstop has been a demanding marathon, made no easier because of its wholesome sensibilities.

Ironically, Wreden may be even more burned out now than when he started working on it.

“I had this belief that if I put enough of myself in my work, then I would feel free of this ugliness inside of me”.

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62

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56

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37

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informal

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English

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45

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