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Games like It's Winter

2019PC77 % positive8.19 €

In It's Winter you wander through a bleak post-Soviet panel block under gray winter skies, with no goal and no grand plot. Its melancholic mood and drab everyday atmosphere are what set it apart.

  • Emotional impact
  • Dark, serious atmosphere

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In short: Games like It's Winter

Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes It's Winter special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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Before I Forget

85 %Match

2020USK 12PC, Xbox, Nintendo Switch87 % positive6.59 €

Brings what grabs you about It's Winter: emotional impact, a calm pace and a relaxed difficulty.

You piece together a life from the rooms and fragments of a woman whose memories keep slipping away. This short narrative exploration handles dementia, love and loss with quiet, affecting restraint.

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Neyasnoe

Dark, serious atmosphere

You glimpse a fragment of a man who searches for meaning and loses himself in the labyrinth of his own thoughts. It is less a conventional game than a melancholic, introspective experience.

Crimson Gray

Emotional impact

You follow John, a young man struggling with severe depression, through a quiet story about searching for meaning and hope. As his world fades to grey, one special encounter may bring colour back.

Dinner Date

Emotional impact

A short experimental first-person piece in which you sit at a dinner table waiting for a date while hearing the character's inner thoughts. Interaction is minimal; the focus is on mood and introspection.

Thing-in-Itself

Emotional impact

A short interactive story about how hard it is to truly understand another person, framed by Kant's thing-in-itself. With no challenge or win conditions, it walks through the stages of a relationship as perceptions clash and surroundings shift.

Fragments of Him

Emotional impact

Fragments of Him is a first-person narrative game about a fatal accident and the lives it touches before and after. You move through places and memories as a spirit or inner voice of the characters, and your choices nudge the story forward in quiet, lingering ways.

Penko Park

Easy to pick up

You wander through a deserted wildlife park and get to know its mysterious residents by photographing them and interacting with your surroundings. The game thrives on quiet curiosity and slowly uncovering puzzling details.

Fuck You Witch

Easy to pick up

Your daily life falls apart after your best friend confesses her love, and hallucinations start eating into your sleep and meals. The atmosphere of the Kazakh steppe and the chance to scream obscenities at the witch give it its unusual character.

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