Miwa: The Sacred Fox

About

Miwa: The Sacred Fox is a 2D adventure platformer where players control Shima Nobu and a mystical fox named Miwa to save their village from spreading darkness. Set during a Japanese festival with Hawaiian influences, the game mixes hand-drawn visuals with puzzle-solving and platforming challenges. Light acts as both a weapon against shadowy enemies and a tool to unlock paths, requiring precise timing and creative thinking to progress through eerie caverns and ancient ruins. The game's hand-painted art style gives it a distinct visual identity, blending folklore and supernatural threats in a world where sunset brings new dangers. Exploration and combat balance evenly, with puzzles often tying directly to the environment. Playing solo on PC, it offers a focused experience that leans into its mythic setting without overloading with complexity.

Storyline

The game takes place in the dark magical Japanese world during Kanaloa festival. Every evening, when the last glimmer of the falling sun fades, night marchers rise up from the ocean with the sounds of blown conch shell tones and march in a large groups to the tarnished sacred places of Japan. This time they are marching into your tarnished village. The only thing you remember are the screams of dying people and friends. As one of the few survivors, you decide to sanctify your village again and you are ready to explore the dark deep caverns, ruins of ancient cities and magical landscapes of Japan with a strange sacred fox called Miwa.