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As nurse Gerda in occupied Denmark, balance scarce supplies, alliances and risky conversations over five days to try to save your husband.
Released 01 Sep 2022
Balance Wartime Loyalties
Spend Scarce Supplies
Choose Limited Daily Stops
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?
Developed by BirdIsland/PortaPlay · Published by DON'T NOD









In February 1945, nurse Gerda Larsen’s husband is arrested in Nazi-occupied Denmark. With five days to act, she must navigate her divided community and decide how far to go in trying to save him.
Explore selected locations each day, investigate events and talk with people from different factions. Time and supplies are limited, so helping one person or group can close off other opportunities and affect Gerda’s relationships.
Choices shape the story and can have lasting consequences. Reflecting on events in Gerda’s diary develops her personality skills, which can unlock dialogue options and aid checks; the story branches toward multiple possible conclusions.
In this helpfulness-selected sample, players often praise the weight of Gerda’s choices, the emotional story and its focus on civilians in occupied Denmark. Many also enjoy the painted visual style, atmospheric music and historical details. Some reviewers criticize the dice checks as unpredictable, while others find the choices and outcomes rewarding; limited save and replay options, slow pacing and disagreement with the story’s moral framing also come up.
February 1945. The war is almost over but your fight is about to begin. You play Gerda Larsen, a young nurse who is torn between her community and her desperate quest to save her husband, Anders. Many other lives will come to depend on your decisions.
Gerda’s journey will involve moral dilemmas, difficult conversations, and sticky situations. It’s a dangerous world and you must help her adapt to it with the choices you make, which always have both short- and long-term consequences.
If you give away precious resources to somebody who needs them now, will you come to regret it later? Will there be consequences if you, as a nurse, help a person who is suffering even though they may later cause suffering to others?

Make the most of what you have: your personality points, your allegiances, and your resources. Your relationship with people and factions will determine how your story unfolds. Level up Gerda’s mental skills by reflecting on her experiences in her diary to gain personality skill points. Use these skills during events and conversations to unlock special actions, gain others’ trust, or keep them from suspecting you.
You can choose where to explore and when – but do so wisely, as people move around and events can be time sensitive. As you investigate and make progress, your choices will send you down many different narrative paths. Will you do whatever it takes to save Anders, or will you cling fiercely to your morals? Your actions will lead to several poignant conclusions and change the fate of your community in Gerda: A Flame in Winter.


| Platforms | Windows |
|---|---|
| Achievements | 59 |
| Age ratings |
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| Controller support | PlayStation, Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| Demo | View demo on Steam |
| DLC / extras | 3 listed on Steam |
| Metacritic | 84/100 View on Metacritic |
| Website | Official website |