Project Winter

Mechanics

In Project Winter we observe the action from above - from the isometric perspective. When the game starts, each player receives a specific, hidden role and goals to perform. Most of the group's task is to survive in the frozen wilderness until they manage to call help - this requires cooperation, pooling valuable resources, repairing various facilities and coping with many challenges and threats.

At the same time, however, there are a few traitors in the team who know about each other but are not known to the other of the group. Their task is to prevent the others from being rescued without revealing their identity (detection of sabotage is likely to result in death). They do this by gaining the trust of individuals and manipulating them in such a way as to create conflicts within the group. Traitors are initially in a worse position, but as the game progresses, the situation reverses and they gain an advantage.

The game ends when all of the group are safely evacuated.... or either are killed by the traitors or deprived of the chance to be rescued.

Game modes

We can only play Project Winter with others. The game emphasizes cooperation, communication and complexity of interpersonal relations, therefore it would not work in any other format. The mainstay of the gameplay is an eight-person, online multiplayer mode.

Technical aspects

Three-dimensional visuals of Project Winter are quite simple, but decent. The creators decided to use an artistic style that brings to mind animated film - thanks to this, the graphics contrasts with a rather brutal and uncompromising theme. Characters models are nicely made and animated, and the locations reflect the atmosphere of the frozen wilderness.