Night in the Woods is a game with a unique story, developed by Infinite Fall. It is a quest game with multiple endings, depending on the player's actions during the game.

The story begins with May, a cat who returns to her hometown of Possum Springs. In her hometown, she had dropped out of college and she does not know what to do with her life yet. She got back into the town to hang out with her old friends or simply walk around the town and meet the people she knew in her childhood. Yet this childhood world is no more. The city's residents start talking about something happening in the nearby forest. May gets her friends together and goes out to figure out what's going on.