Gerda: A Flame in Winter

A game that teaches about war and humanity with unique art style and engaging story. I would even recommend kids in school to play it as part of the history class ngl. It is mature and historical about the event but also fun as a game. Truly one of the best designed games in the recent time.

Interesting game mechanics. Multiple ways to play the game, too, who you side with, who you help. I enjoyed the simple visuals, it's quite soothing. The game is short, but since it's interesting to see how other options work, you can replay it for hours.

Great purchase for history buffs, just wish the choices and stay checks in the main campaign were as forgiving as those in the DLC

Great game overall. It depicts how the choices of individuals under fascist rule are shaped by their surroundings but are individual choices nontheless. The story really sucks you in and your choices shape the story quite a bit, so im looking forward to another playthrough. The story and your possibilities are shaped by the actions you've taken before, but unlike life and death of sir brante you dont have to minmax to not completely get screwed later on in the game. And like Disco Elysium there are options where there is a diceroll that you can hit or miss. But unlike Disco its not determined by what silly hat you wear but how well aligned you are with certain persons and factions in the game. Only critique: Towards the end of Gerdas Story, i couldnt choose an option i had the points for, which was sad.

Great game, there are quite a few bugs though, in my recent playthrough I went to the clinic and got Sophia the penicillin, and later in the game, when I was helping them get past the checkpoint, the game acted as if I hadn't gotten the penicillin for her. And some of the diary entries don't match what happened. For example we got Heinrich held in the Inn, and I did it without anyone getting hurt, and the diary entry still said that Heinrich stabbed Peter in the shoulder.

This is a really cool narrative game, with good story, and interesting setting. I would really like to give this a positive review, as I liked most of it. Unfortunately, it has some cons that soured my taste with it: - Twice I ran into an bug in which, after an autosave, the logs/dialogue/narration claimed I'd made a choice I had not done in the previous scene. In one of these cases it only changed a minor dialogue option later in the story from easy to challenging, and in the other case it resulted with a character being dead in the following scenes. Since you don't have manual saves, only an autosave and one save slot, this means that you sometimes have to live with the results of the bugs, not with the concequences of your choices. - The Train station scene felt more like a puzzle with imperfect information, than a culmination of my previous choices. Not sure if it is or not. It could also be that the game gives you a lot of things to do in this scene, but passing those checks will still automatically lead to success or failure depending your choices, which isn't great either. - There is an element of rng when it comes to persuasion checks. It is annoying when you keep failing…