Former Bethesda, BioWare and other developers are creating a Stardew with Redwall animals. And oh my God look at this little farmer carrying a pumpkin.

Nothing soothes your soul more than a woodland creature that acts like a person. If you are feeling down in the midweek, imagine a mouse. Imagine a mouse wearing tiny clothes and drinking a tiny soup of mouse from an acorn hat. Good, yeah? It's a good thing, right?

Hawthorn, NEARstudios upcoming life simulator and sandbox rpg, features anthropomorphic woodland creatures working to rebuild a trading post into a functional village for little owls wearing hats and tiny otters drinking rodent ale. The studio has been sharing small glimpses of early gameplay on its X page over the last few months. Hawthorn was finally revealed yesterday in a YouTube gameplay trailer.

The trailer you can watch above shows a lot of familiar life-sim elements, such as farming, cooking and crafting, but from the perspective of a Redwall mouse. The mouse character plants a farm with the help of woodland creatures that can be recruited. This slowly produces corn and pumpkins, which dwarf the mouse, forcing him to harvest his corn using a two-handed tool like we would do when cutting down a tree.

The crops can be used to decorate the house, as we see in a delightful moment when the mouse drags one of their (relatively massive) gourds. The mouse is small, but the pumpkins are huge. Spectacular.

In another trailer, the mouse prepares a communal meal for their fellow villagers. They dance a festive, jig-like dance with an otter companion, holding tiny ale tanks in their hands. Later, it appears that the small folk invented competitive athletics. The player mouse climbs on an owl to join a match of what looks like a basketball, but with a bird as your opponent instead of dribbling.

Hawthorn does not have a release schedule, but you can add it to your Steam wishlist.