Winter voices
Is an episodic RPG PC adventure game, and is available to buy via the Steam platform for just 5 Dollars per episode, great atmosphere and plot differentiate this from its competitors.
Winter Voices Prologue: Avalanche
A drama is unfolding in a tiny village buried in snow, lost in the depths of a Three-River Principality valley. A sudden death, a now-hostile home, new sensory capacities rising like a storm and the departure towards the unknown, the only means to escape besides death, has become inevitable…The newly-orphaned heroine is pushed to leave her father’s village by the voices of her unconscious mind. The long journey to find answers will lead you through many events to overcome anger, sadness, pain and fear and finally unveil what is whispered by the voices of Winter.
Episode 1: Those who have no name
It’s now time for a long journey, on a snowy trail, to the distant capital, from shelter to shelter. Travelling in the snow is an ordeal and strangers, tramps or travelers also caught up in this unexpected winter now replace the familiar faces of your childhood village. Haunted by ghosts in your past, to avoid giving up on the voyage and going back, you must find the courage to face your fears.
Episode 2: Nowhere of me
You advance in your adventure alone in the middle of the tundra and attempt to follow a forgotten trail, marked by ruins of ancient stopovers and roaming animals. Your unconscious’ voices are submitting you to harrowing internal battles, which you must overcome to carry on with your reconstruction. Your future takes shape as you battle your way through an inhumane nature. Will you be strong enough to face your demons, the fear of loneliness and the temptation of death?
Winter Voices is a solo role playing game on PC purchased by downloading 7 episodes. Each new episode constitutes a decisive narrative step towards resolving the plot.
You take on the role of a 24-year-old woman, no discussion or other options, but you do get to do some minor customization. The story opens in the strange village your character lives in when her father dies and memories come back to haunt you. Literally, they come and do what appears to be psychic damage to you in turn-based combat. However, there’s little jeopardy because if they overcome you in a battle, you simply move on and don’t get as much experience points as you would if you had won. So really, there’s no way to fail.
The graphics are truly inspiring and at times it feels like you’re walking through a hand-painted world of ice and snow, where misery and hardship are palpable in every frozen breath. Then you doze off because the game is so slow in so many places. A lovingly-created world of such visual beauty is rare in many genres of games, but point and click adventures have always been known for them. This game certainly lives up to that visually and the only flaw I found (in my beta copy I’ll add) was the fact that it couldn’t be played in a window even though full screen.
Overall, the games is interesting but will be so for very few people. It’s storyline is slow moving and the gameplay is less than exciting a lot of the time. The major flaw in the
game is that it seems to be missing puzzles of any sort. Numerous things are achieved by simply going place to place.
Experience points are doled out for having a one-line conversation with someone and on the whole, the game could use something to make it really interesting.
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