Gerda: A Flame in Winter

Game is set during 2nd World War when N*zis have occupied Danish areas where you live. You play as Gerda, half German and half Dane, who needs to pick her side and do choices which will affect how different sides will see and react to her. Will you try to appeal to occupiers to gather more information easily but be at the same time loathed by resistance? Will you try to save your husband or save people fighting for better future? Basically game revolves around choices you need to make to appeal one side over another. There are different events that occur where you can also affect destinies of people you encounter and possibilities to see them again - where they will react to you based on your earlier actions. People may die, but you can also save them by making correct choices. More often than not the impact will happen based on choices you made during earlier events, meaning once you start a new event, what ever happens will happen - you cannot change that anymore. In between the events you get to "overview map" where you can sometimes choose which event you want to play. However, mostly you dont have time to access all events; time will forward after every event and there are times when for example you have time to access one event but 3 different ones are visible. It will also affect like/dislike ratio of people you meet and possible outcomes in the future based on which event you take and how you perform in there. Also; there is no manual save. Game will only save when you are in overview map, meaning once you complete an event - you are stuck with choices you have made. No save scumming here. I do like the flow game has, writing and music fits the mood and choices you need to make are interesting. Game has different routes and outcomes, so it may be worth playing through more than once to reveal all sides for the story. Is the game exceptional with story or gameplay? No, not really. On discount, you get couple evenings worth of nice experience tho.