Oh what a visual treat this is, the beautiful backgrounds and animations really help get the dark stories across. The writing is very clever and drags you in deeper and deeper into the desperate characters that all struggle with their own inner and outer demons and all suffer a similar fate in their relation with the death of other beings and their own dance with death. But the incredible presentation keeps you playing through their misery and depressive stories and you hardly notice that there are not that many puzzles in the game that is more interactive fiction that an adventure. The music perfectly fits and sets the mood of the intertwining stories and is a brave companion on your way down one abyss after the other... A very nice touch is, that the first story can go differently, play it yourself.

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Synopsis: A tale of dark and troubling things (A free point-and-click adventure anthology in four acts.)

A train. A masked ball. Four strangers and their stories.

THE SILENT ROOM In a luxurious hotel room in Rome, freshly arrived from Turin, Carlo awaits for his lover Patrick to arrive. Yet even in the wild and roaring 1920s, these rendezvous must be held in secret, and the tension of meeting in constant hiding is taking its toll.

THE SLOW VANISHING OF LADY WINTERBOURNE Lady Winterbourne has lost her husband in a tragic accident. Now letters from pretenders to her title -- and her vast fortune -- keep arriving every day at her mansion, but the only thing she's interested in is the bottle of laudanum she keeps in her cabinet.

THE NAMELESS RITUAL Downtrodden by the racism of the American medical establishment, Dr. Jordan Samuels has resorted to the Dark Arts in an attempt to achieve the success denied to him by his peers. However, when the nightmares begin, he starts thinking he might have bitten off more than he can chew.

IF ON A WINTER'S NIGHT Laylah likes her job, but sometimes she yearns for a bit of variety. So any time the opportunity arises for her to experience something different from her daily routine, she will take it -- even if it means going against her very powerful bosses' orders.

Credits: Laura Hunt: coding, writing, music & sound design, game design. Thomas Möhring: art, animations, cutscenes, game design.

Interview with Laura Hunt: https://formosafalanster.wordpress.com/2021/03/08/one-of-the-best-parts-of-making-videogames-is-being-able-to-lose-yourself-for-a-while-in-that-world-youve-created-an-interview-with-laura-hunt/

Download: https://laurahunt.itch.io/if-on-a-winters-night-four-travelers

Intro/Outro Visuals by TripTilt

Chapters: 0:00 Intro 0:05 Game credits 0:16 Game Menu screen with music 0:32 Game Intro 2:21 Part 1: The Silent Room 18:18 Interlude I 19:52 Part 2: The Slow Vanishing of Lady Winterbourne 36:33 The Jukebox (puzzle) 43:27 The Stopped Clock (puzzle) 46:00 The Conservatory (puzzle) 54:51 Interlude II 56:26 Part 3: The Nameless Ritual 1:03:37 Herbs and pots (puzzle) 1:05:12 Skin marking (dagger puzzle) 1:24:06 WWI 1:31:52 WWI Soldiers (puzzle) 1:41:29 Interlude III & End

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