Folk-Tography

Folk-Tography is a co-op game for up to four players. You and your friends explore Folk Valley as cryptid hunters, photographing and hunting legendary cryptids, investigating paranormal anomalies and extracting with your evidence.

Photograph cryptids

The camera’s photo-rating system grades each picture on three factors:

• Focus: Keep the subject in frame to fill the focus meter. If you move too much or lose sight of the subject, the meter drains and the photo becomes blurry.
• Framing: Center the subject in the frame for a better composition.
• Fill: Move closer so the subject takes up more of the photograph.

Higher-rated photos earn bigger payouts.

Survive the valley

You need to manage health, stamina and sanity. Search abandoned campsites and supply caches for food and other resources; otherwise, you risk dying and leaving your photos behind. Darkness consumes your sanity when you stray from trails, and getting too close to certain cryptids can also make it plummet. As sanity falls, audio and visual hallucinations distort reality; if it drops too far, the darkness begins draining your health. Stay near light, stick with your friends, find coffee when you need it and keep your flashlight from dying.

Clear anomalies

Each expedition brings a new set of paranormal anomalies to investigate. Your team must find and clear a certain number of them around the valley before calling for extraction. Anomalies are short challenges that can put the team in danger, such as repairing a malfunctioning generator or investigating a crashed UFO. Each has its own task, and some have consequences if you get it wrong.

You can split up to cover more ground and clear anomalies faster, or stay together for safety. Exploring further gives you more chances to find cryptids, as well as unexpected encounters.

Customize your hunter

Choose from outfits, accessories, species and patterns, with hundreds of combinations to create your hunter’s look. Successful expeditions pay out according to the evidence you bring back, and better photos earn more. Spend your currency at the Hunter's Lodge to unlock cosmetics for future expeditions.

Complete your Field Guide

Every successful extraction adds to your personal collection of legendary creatures and paranormal phenomena. Photograph subjects at higher quality to improve their ratings, discover hidden species, complete your Field Guide and uncover hidden lore about each subject.