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Feet in The Snow is a simple point-and-click indie horror game, released in… I can’t find any information about it, but… who cares. If a game is good or worth trying, I’ll recommend it!

The game’s story is from the perspective of a strange woman while she is in a lucid dream, a lucid dream where she can act according to her will. She said she kept having a strange dream. She got lost in a pine forest, surrounded by white snow. Ahead of her was a snow-covered path and a line of footprints leading forward. She kept going until…

Another passage appears. On the right is a road with mysterious footprints. On the left, the snow surface was completely flat, as if no one had ever walked across it. And here, you make a decision to turn left or right.

The game’s graphics are very simple, just drawings with basic repeating effects. But this is the point where I feel creepy because everything feels like a space where time overlaps, unable to flow forward. And our main character accidentally falls into that place through a dream. Or it could be that the publisher wants to save on production costs. Whatever you say, the colors in the game are what I like the most. The way the colors combine together creates a scene that makes the player feel the gloom, and at the same time feel the strangeness of the surrounding objects and events.

The main sound of the game is the sound of wind and snow blowing from somewhere far away. In addition, we can only hear noises when our character interacts with items in the game. This makes the player feel like he is the only one who has not been affected by a force in that dimension. But it’s only a matter of time. In short, the harmony of the above two elements has fulfilled the purpose that the publisher expected when adding this game.

Well… I didn’t intend to write but… Personally, I find the gameplay of this game extremely simple. Simply click on anything that can be clicked. The items in the game needed to solve the puzzle are also simple and easy to find. Everything is like a waking dream, completely according to the main character’s will, that is, the game’s arrangements. But the game doesn’t support Vietnamese, so I hope you use Google to help or play the way I did in the past. Keep pressing until something strange comes up…

Below is the game’s story along with what happens when the player turns left or right. If you are interested, you can download this game for free on many foreign sites by adding the word “download” to the game name. Or if you want to continue reading… scroll down. The story is also simple, nothing complicated. The complexity is your thinking about simple things. So… shall we begin?

You continue to follow the footprints in the snow along the trail.

You come across an elevator in the middle of a frozen lake.

With no options, you step into the elevator.

The old ladder, when taking you down, always makes a shaking sound.

The elevator door opens, you see a hallway made of concrete. On the ground are familiar footprints.

Surrounded by rooms with rusty doors, you can enter one at will. In the water tank, you see a blurry man in the murky water. When you look closely, you don’t understand why your head hurts.

On the table is a Piranha fish that has had its heart removed, but it is still moving.

You enter the room opposite, inside there are many fish tanks. You see a bottle of motor oil.

You walked forward and into another room, in the sink was a small white heart beating, thumping, thumping, thumping.

The room opposite is locked…

Following the footsteps in front of it, it stopped at a rusty door. You need a wrench to open it…

You curiously go back to the room where the heart was earlier to get it. Taking the heart and stuffing it into the fish’s stomach, it broke into the glass tank below the table, revealing the key.

You use the key to open the locked room. Inside are containers. You look inside and…

Nothing…

Until the last one.

You pick up the knob from the ground and go to the door where the footprints stopped. You insert the handle and lubricate it.

The door opens and you see that behind it is a tunnel with rusty metal walls and you enter.

Until, you see light ahead. Can you figure out what that is?

It is an alley with shops lit by many lanterns.

The footprints led to the end of the alley and stopped at a very large door. You cannot open it.

The people here are extremely strange…

But even so, you still ask them how to move forward.

A man in a shop down the block is willing to help you if you give him a coin-shaped item.

Fumbling around for a while amid the requests from people around you, you discover an irony. That the man who was desperately smoking and wanted to escape here used that strange coin to exchange for a pack of cigarettes at a store…

The shop owner happily gave you that coin as soon as you asked about it.

You give the man at the shop at the end of the row the coin. He opened that large door, revealing a pitch black tunnel. You enter.

You keep walking until you realize you are on a road leading to a mountain top. On the path are familiar footprints.

You just follow…

Follow…

At the top of the mountain, you see rocks floating in the air in the abyss.

You jump on the first rock… Then the second, the third…

Go to the fourth and fifth stones…

When we reach the last stone…

You see… a pair of feet.

When you turn around and look back, there’s nothing.

What then? After that, everything sank into the darkness of nothingness.

You keep walking forward and see a house.

The main door is locked, you decide to go around to the back door.

On the doorstep, you see a hand holding a key

You try it in the back door, the door opens, you step inside.

The kitchen is messy, the sink is full of blood and a knife, in the pot of soup is a raised human hand… You decide to take the knife to defend yourself.

Going to the dining room, a man sat in the chair, on the table were plates containing moving things…

You go to look at him, it turns out, the man has lost his eyes and his tongue in his mouth.

You walk into the living room and see a black bowl with a piece of flesh attached to a moving eye inside.

You enter a room with many plants, you notice a small key stuck in a branch. You take it down and put it in your pocket.

You go into the storage room and see many glass jars containing many human body parts soaked in an unknown solution.

You go around outside first and go upstairs. There are three rooms, one bathroom and two bedrooms.

You go to the bathroom first and discover a bottle of acid in the cabinet next to you, you put it in your bag.

By chance, you look in the mirror and realize you don’t have a face…

You go out and enter a bedroom, you see a messy cocoon of flesh in the corner of the room. Curious, you use a knife to open it, inside is an eye… You take it out…

You go back out and enter the remaining room. In the simply furnished room, a wooden box lies neatly on the bed.

It’s locked, you use the key you find in the room full of plants. It popped open and a tongue was locked inside.

As if understanding everything, you picked it up and walked down to the living room. You take out the bottle of acid to dissolve the meat stuck to the eye in the black bowl…

Then, you go into the dining room and approach the man sitting in the chair. You put parts of your body in places that are lacking.

The man seemed to come back to life…

Your eyes suddenly can’t see anything. When you opened your eyes, you discovered you were on a big road, still full of snow and on both sides were pine forests.

You keep going and spot a red car.

You get closer and look inside and there is a woman there. She said she couldn’t go out and told you to buy gas at the gas station in front, then she would take you out of here.

You are skeptical but still follow.

Going to the gas station, you realize you don’t have a can to hold it. You go inside to find it.

The woman who owns the store asks you to find her the marble she lost in exchange for a can of gasoline.

When you find the marble and fill the gas can. You go back and put gas in the car…

You get in the car, then it rolls forward.

In the car, the woman in the driver’s seat started talking.

"Tôi rất vui vì cô chọn con đường này, nên tôi mới đưa cô về nhà được...
Cô biết không... Tôi thường bắt gặp có người đi trên con đường này...
Tôi đều chở họ về nhà hết...
Tất cả họ đều nói với tôi về giấc mơ của mình...
Tôi không biết nhiều về giấc mơ, nhưng có người từng nói với tôi...
Rằng nếu như mình thấy dấu chân trong giấc mơ, nhớ đừng đi theo...
Không thì sẽ vĩnh viễn mắc kẹt ở đó mãi..."

What then?

Then you wake up.

So what the hell is wrong with this story??? Well… I don’t know either. If so, I’ll list them out. But I also have a few theories of my own about what happened in Feet in The Snow. And my hypothesis will be in another article. Please comment below to let me know what you think about the game’s story!

Personally, I quite like this game. What keeps it stuck in my head is what my imagination brings to me when the experience is over. Personally, I really hope there will be a second part, talking about the game’s characters, especially in the alley with shops lit by lanterns. To answer questions like… Are they the ones who accidentally chose to follow the footsteps and decided not to continue? Or simply characters in a dream? Or about the girl in the red car, for example. Who is she? Why help people who accidentally strayed onto that snowy road to wake up? Or how come the previous people had the same dream as the main character??? But it’s obvious that something as good as this game won’t have a second part. So, let’s let our imagination fly high and far. Just don’t fly.