Gerda: A Flame in Winter is out on Steam and the Nintendo Switch.
Gerda: A Flame in Winter is out on Steam and the Nintendo Switch.
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Collaborate or fight? How Gerda: A Flame in Winter forces tough choices

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Narrative games like Don’t Nod’s Life is Strange series force players to make tough decisions that could lead to great outcomes or death. And now it taking that formula and publishing more games that are made from other developers.

The newest is such title is PortaPlay’s Gerda: A Flame in Winter, which came out on September 1 on the PC on Steam and the Nintendo Switch. It’s about a woman in a small village in a historically contested region between Denmark and Germany, and how she struggles to save her husband from the Nazis in World War II.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.