Winter Voices
Released Oct 2010
A unique adventure, a stunning scenario to discover in one season!
66% positive · 276 reviews
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Released, content planned but development status unclear
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Content Planned
Development Uncertain
Not yet
Released, content planned but development status unclear
Low confidence
Content Planned
Development Uncertain
Where to get it
Free on Steam
Evaluation
Winter Voices is a narrative episodic RPG that launched on October 29, 2010. The game was designed as a seven-episode first season. On October 22, 2018, developer Clara Lehenaff announced she had decided to create Episode 7 ("Whisper of the Ash") — described as a free final episode that would complete the heroine's story. She noted it would be developed in her spare time with no timeline given.
The game was also made permanently free on Steam on October 17, 2018. Around the same time, a Kickstarter campaign launched in June–July 2018 for a sequel, "Child of the Pyre," with multiple updates posted through late July 2018 — but there have been no developer posts of any kind since October 22, 2018.
The promised Episode 7 constitutes an outstanding commitment from the developer, but with no communication since October 22, 2018, it is impossible to confirm whether development is still ongoing, has been quietly abandoned, or is complete but unreleased. Given the extended silence of nearly eight years (from October 2018 to June 2026), the status of this episode is deeply uncertain.
Evidence
Developer Clara Lehenaff announces Episode 7 ('Whisper of the Ash') is in development as a free final episode, with no release date, to be developed in her spare time. This is the last known communication from the developer.
Store description describes a seven-episode season, but only references the prologue episode — suggesting the full episode arc was never completed on the storefront.
Media
Details
Developer
Publisher
Clara Lehenaff
Achievements
64
Platform
Windows
Controller
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Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player
About this game
A unique adventure, a stunning scenario to discover in one season!
Winter Voices is a narrative-driven, episodic, role-playing game set in an imaginary and timeless world at the start of the Industrial Revolution. Players control a 24 year-old heroine as she deals with the death of her father. She must journey through the heart of Winter and battle her worst enemies – her own personal demons.
The first season of the Winter Voices series is comprised of seven downloadable episodes, each unraveling new elements of the character’s tale.
Winter Voices combines “point and click” real-time gaming with strictly defensive turn-based combat. As the game alternates real-time dialog and world exploration with combat, players will experience turn-based psychic warfare.
Winter Voices is a narrative-driven, episodic, role-playing game set in an imaginary and timeless world at the start of the Industrial Revolution. Players control a 24 year-old heroine as she deals with the death of her father. She must journey through the heart of Winter and battle her worst enemies – her own personal demons.
The first season of the Winter Voices series is comprised of seven downloadable episodes, each unraveling new elements of the character’s tale.
Winter Voices combines “point and click” real-time gaming with strictly defensive turn-based combat. As the game alternates real-time dialog and world exploration with combat, players will experience turn-based psychic warfare.
Key Features:
- mature and creative narrative, exploring human consciousness and immersing in an evocative and chilling role-playing experience
- sophisticated and thought provoking gameplay: the player engages in “defense of the mind” mechanics, as the character is overwhelmed by memories and fights against her own inner demons, fears, voices of illusion, guilt, madness...
- tactical... with a twist: strictly defensive turn-based combat
- wondrous and unusual world: an imaginary and timeless world at the start of the Industrial Revolution
- dynamic soundtrack: keeping to the theme of self-discovery, haunting melodies guide the player, setting a dark, intriguing mood to match the character’s cold journey and mysterious past
Winter Voices Prologue: Avalanche
A drama is unfolding in a tiny village buried in snow, lost in the depths of a Three-River Principality valley. A sudden death, a now-hostile home, new sensory capacities rising like a storm and the departure towards the unknown, the only means to escape besides death, has become inevitable...The newly-orphaned heroine is pushed to leave her father’s village by the voices of her unconscious mind. The long journey to find answers will lead you through many events to overcome anger, sadness, pain and fear and finally unveil what is whispered by the voices of Winter.Are these done yet?
Last evaluated Jun 28, 2026
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