This Winter of Ours

This Winter of Ours

VARIA · December 12, 2025 · Adventure, Visual Novel, Interactive Fiction, 2D, Anime

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About This Winter of Ours

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This Winter of Ours is a cozy fantasy visual novel where two girls—a lost merchant and a mysterious forest survivalist—find warmth and connection while enduring a harsh snowy wilderness together. With 30,000 words of story, custom art, and an original soundtrack, it's an intimate tale of two lonely souls discovering they might be exactly what each other needs.

Alone as two, together as one. This Winter of Ours is a fantasy/yuri visual novel that tells the story of two girls surviving in a hostile winter forest, and living their new life together day by day. As day turns to night and the last of the grass is suffocated by snow, apprentice merchant Delia finds herself completely lost and alone. With no hope for survival, she finally lays to rest her dreams of learning magic and discovering the secrets of her world, allowing herself to be taken by the elements.Yet she awakens, and finds an unfamiliar figure lying next to her. A girl who is similarly yet uniquely alone. While she isn't forthcoming on any details of herself, the girl agrees to escort the merchant to safety, thus beginning their presumably short-lived adventure.Little do the two know, they both have what the other needs. Will they be able to find that hidden treasure within each other, or will doubts and secrets consume them both?

An apprentice merchant traveling in her father's shadow. Cordial yet anxious, she struggles to fit in with the life of a trader, secretly yearning for her dead dream of studying magic and becoming a mage. If only she had a little push.

A short-spoken survivalist who calls the snowy forest her home. Initially a nameless stranger, she is given the name "Lux" when she encounters an estranged merchant in training. Despite her distrustful nature, something within her compels her to help the apprentice trader escape the forest.

Gameplay:
  • ~3-4 hours of gameplay
  • 30k words
Assets:
  • Custom sprites, cgs, and bgs
  • Original Soundtrack (and sound effects!)
Technical:
  • Self-Voicing (enable with the 'v' key)
  • Snow. Lots and lots of snow
  • Keyboard and Controller support

Crimfinity - Project Director, Coder, Co-writer92FM - Lead Writer, QAadricheri - Art Director, Sprites, CGs, QAFlasium - Music, SFXDaxThinksNot - Background Artist River - Splashscreen QA Team - Nimiria, Rose, fitmarshmellow

This Winter of Ours — game info

Platforms
Windows, macOS, Linux / SteamOS
Player modes
Single-player
Controller
Full controller support
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Recommended Sep 27, 2026
I don't know how people can leave a negative comment for this... The story was so beautiful...
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Recommended Sep 9, 2026
This Winter of Ours is a short fantasy yuri visual novel that turns an unforgiving winter landscape into the backdrop for a surprisingly tender relationship. Developed and published by VARIA, it follows Delia, an apprentice merchant whose journey takes a disastrous turn when she becomes lost in a snow-covered forest. Exhaustion and the freezing conditions leave her expecting the worst, but she unexpectedly awakens after being rescued by a mysterious young woman. From that simple encounter, the story develops into an intimate tale about loneliness, trust, survival, and the comfort that can emerge when two strangers begin opening up to one another. Delia is an effective protagonist because she enters the story with aspirations that extend beyond her current circumstances. She has an interest in magic and dreams that seem increasingly distant while she is trapped in the wilderness. Her companion, Lux, provides an appealing contrast. She is reserved, capable of surviving in the forest, and initially reluctant to place much trust in another person. Their differences create much of the narrative's emotional momentum. Instead of immediately treating their relationship as a conventional r…
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Recommended Oct 9, 2026
Story ain't bad, prob a 5-7/10. The art has a very unique style that I honestly dig. The bonus stories were actually pretty cool and i give those a 7-8/10. Not the biggest fan of the ending? [spoiler] even though they expressly tell you they didn't die, it kinda just felt as if they did? [/spoiler] Also, the only way the game differentiates who's saying what is by changing the name tag and having a very slight color swap. It's so unnoticeable that at times I read a line as the wrong character saying it.
Recommended Sep 27, 2026
How dare you make me cry like that?! Not that I didnt like it or anything... Absolutey will cry again, 10/10 (Also big thanks for Ukrainian :3)
Recommended Sep 19, 2026
me when i kiss my lesbian cat gf and we merge
Recommended Sep 15, 2026
I used to like snow. Now I like it more. Allows for some good wlw. And the wlw is indeed good.

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