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VARIA · Published by VARIA
Very Positive — 99% positive (187 reviews) · 4 achievements
Last updated 28 Sept 2026
Alone as two, together as one - A fantasy/yuri visual novel telling the story of two girls traversing a snow covered forest and growing closer.
Adventure, Indie, Free To Play, Casual · 2025 · More free games
Traverse icy paths and uncover secrets in "This Winter of Ours," an indie adventure from VARIA. Experience the growth of friendship between two characters as you navigate a magical winter landscape together.
About this game
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-writer
92FM - Lead Writer, QA
adricheri - Art Director, Sprites, CGs, QA
Flasium - Music, SFX
DaxThinksNot - Background Artist
River - Splashscreen
QA Team - Nimiria, Rose, fitmarshmellow
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- OS: idk if your computer runs its probably fine
- Memory: 10 MB RAM
- Storage: 200 MB available space
Supported Languages
*languages with full audio support
Latest news
AnnouncementsOfficial
This Winter of Ours - Out Now!
Hey everyone, This Winter of Ours is finally out! We’ve been working away at polishing and fleshing out the game while retaining its core essence from the original itch.io release back in January and we’re so excited to show you the results! For those of you who already played the itch.io version, we have a lot of patch notes and I'm sure I'm forgetting something: UI‘Devnotes’ moved into extras menuShrunk the cursorTweaks to history and help screenSlightly revamped controller support ExtrasDev NotesRemoved a line at the topAdded Music RoomAdded Scene ReplayAdded GalleryCreditsMoved to extras tabReformatted Added Bonus Scenes (See bonus scenes section) ArtAdded variant for the creature cgAdded second creature cgsprites1 new pose and some new expressions for Delia and Lux New forest BGReplaced forest clearing bg (having more than one background for the first half of the game makes it feel way more lifelike, who would’ve thought?) Music 2 new bonus tracks, ‘The Merchant of Slatebrook’ and ‘Meowing at the Moon(Alone but not lonely)’ GameplayAdded ‘zio’ and ‘agi’ effectAdjusted lots of camera angles and effects to make the whole thing more dynamicAdded all the new assets in (as opposed to just doing nothing with them) MiscAdded Discord Rich PresenceNew exe iconChinese translation (thanks to Sakura Origami and Ukiny)Now runs on RenPy 8.5 instead of 8.3.7 (this should change absolutely nothing) Now, that isn’t quite everything. You’ll be seeing a couple small updates in the coming weeks:Bug fixes I love bug fixes bug fixes are so cool!Spanish translationSoundtrack (monday at the latest)Extending a couple tracks on said soundtrackMaybe a sequel someday. We haven’t decided yet. We really hope you have fun playing! Hopefully our next project is even more awesome. variaRead full article on Community Announcements (VARIA)AnnouncementsOfficial
This Winter of Ours - November devlog
Hey everyone,Happy late Halloween/very early Christmas! We’re back with another our first Steam progress update! This will likely be our last until we release in December of 2025! Steam PageWe have a steam page! (as you can probably tell from the fact that you're viewing this progress update on steam). Thanks for the whopping 1,100 wishlists so far. Wow that's a lot! They're really important for indie games like This Winter of Ours. We also got an autogenerated Metacritic, Gamefaqs and Youtube Gaming page which is also super cool.A couple other notes about our release:This Winter of Ours will be completely free, though we will be releasing a soundtrack alongside it for those who want to support us. It will also be on itch.io and the google play store for free as well.ArtAll the new art has been done and added for a while now, actually. We might have a couple pieces of promo art on our socials, but all the ingame stuff is done already. Writing All that's left is one final bonus scene! MusicProgress continues. You'll see more of the soundtrack in some YouTube videos in the next couple weeks.However if you haven't been keeping tabs on our itch page, this preview will be new to you.Technical StuffApart from implementing the bonus scenes and working on the bonus menus, we’ve recently taken another pass through the game to make things look nicer, primarily looking for sections that felt too static or didn’t feel very interesting and spiced them up a little bit. Everything is shaping up really nice with the final touch of polish we couldn't attain with just the time from the original game jam.OtherWe’ve been working with translators to get This Winter of Ours out to people in different languages. We’re hoping to have Spanish(Español) and Chinese(中文) translations upon release.Huge thanks to our translators for grinding through everything.Also, we’ve been working on some cool trailers and I think they’re turning out nicely. There will also be a bit of voice acting in the tra...Read full article on Community Announcements (VARIA)
