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Gerda: A Flame in Winter

94% positive of 499 Steam reviews

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Released
2022
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Steam, GOG, Amazon

Made by BirdIsland/PortaPlay. Published by DON'T NOD.

About the game

You have five days to save your husband, who has just been arrested by the Gestapo. Investigate, explore and form allegiances in this story-rich RPG-lite. Who will you trust?

What sets it apart

  • World War II
  • Historical
  • Emotional
  • Dialogue Heavy
  • Choose Your Own Adventure
  • Interactive Fiction
  • Female Protagonist
  • Multiple Endings
  • Hand-drawn
  • Stylized
  • Top-Down
  • Third Person

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What players say

  • Recommended
    Gerda does something very interesting for a choice-based game : there is no "best path" where you can save everyone. No matter what you do or who you trust, there are people you will let down and promises you will break. No matter what your intentions are, there are people who will refuse to help and friendships you will let go of. What is gripping on a meta level and really puts you into Gerda's shoes is that not…

    14 h played when written. 1 found it helpful.

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  • Recommended
    I feel once again that the Steam review system shows it’s limitations here. On the one hand, I found Gerda to be a decent enough game. On the other it didn’t live up fully to my hopes. I could thumb it down, which then depending on the volume of reviews either unfairly marks down a decent enough game, or just gets lost in the noise anyway. As such I’ve gone with a thumbs up since it is a decent little game. On paper…

    12 h played when written. 0 found it helpful.

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  • Not recommended
    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…

    7.5 h played when written. 0 found it helpful.

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