25 favourite screenshots from 2025
Thank you so much to rekindle this tag game 😊 and for tagging me @cocodotgreen! It is so nice to take some time to look back. Loved seeing yours and all of the others, too!
My 25 are scattered over the pictures from Shipwrecked on Northeney as you've seen, from my current (gen 3) Northeney gameplay save, and also from some things I did on the side.
1-7 I guess it's the camaraderie that's visible on all these pictures. Even if it's just the baby enjoying the view of leaves above her and the sun peeping through. I guess this is why coming back to the early days of the story feels like a safe place to me.
From the time I spent building Old Saaqartoq:
8-10 I love being here. This Danish colonial part of the town might still be too sophisticated for the 1780's though, and I may tear everything down again. Love how they used colour codes in Greenland: red is official buildings, yellow service ones, blue merchant ones. It's just so cheerful!
And from Svend's little side story:
11 This introduction picture of him was one of the first I made and I immediately got excited for his presence and storyline on Northeney!
Next the screenshots from my current gameplay. Scroll past this if you don't want any spoilers! I tried my best with faces and places, to not spoil too much, though.
First a bunch of cute cats and kittens I was graced with in 2025:
12-15 There was gorgeous Hylmafar, who's permanently looking as if she's got a little bit of harmless wickedness on her mind; Boula, happily napping in the coolest cat-bed ever; we had Kraaltje, who attacked his uncle first minute after being born; and Sippan, growing utterly tired of keeping watch over Fallonfish, the most boring anchovies ever!
In 2025 my little baby finally grew up to be a teen:
16 The first thing she did after transitioning, while she still wore her childhood rags, was planting the life fruit seed she had carefully stored for the day she would come of age to take care of it. She wants to grow life fruits to give to her papa and maman, to keep them with her a little longer, a day at a time.
I'd been so reluctant to leave her childhood days behind in gameplay, but, as a teen she quickly stole my heart again.
2025 was the year some Northeney people prepared to leave the island, and then finally left. Yet life didn't stop for the ones staying behind, and some big formative things happened for most of them.
17-19 The island's writer had an epiphany about the glorious ending of her Gothic novel "The Scary Man" (based on real life events); a sick little boy waited for his mommy to come back home; but that mommy had to take some time for herself, to scour the ocean's horizon, because her person was with the travel party that left.
20 My favourite Northeney picture ever! Two best friends were sent to pick every white and yellow flower on the island, in a dramatic gesture to help two parents reconcile. The girl in the back, by the way, is the one I intend for Svend. She's still an unassuming teen here, though!
21-25 First the best working marriage on the island this year. Despite himself, this man's patience is endless, and somehow the woman starts to blossom. Then, there's someone who who's utterly alone... I have put him through so much this year and next year will probably not bring relief. Next, a home, that however impractical it is, always gives me Carl Larsson vibes and I love to play there! And lastly a girl, doing her passionate utmost to mock the criminal who's locked behind the attic door. Which he deserved, for insulting her little sister when she had it in her good heart to bring him pancakes. I had so much fun with their scenes!
And I have to end with a bonus photo... This is where I am now, last December's gameplay. And one reason why I don't mind having progressed the story so little this year, because of all the game trouble I had.
26 A mother and her baby, carefully connecting on the sickbed. The mother barely survived childbirth, but she managed to hold on to see the baby become a toddler. Sadly, I don't expect them to have a lot more time still.
Onto 2026, with it's hard story decisions...
I'm a little late, but if some of you would like to do this too, even in January, please consider yourselves tagged!
