Snowman is a short visual novel created for the Winter Visual Novel Jam 2022. It features the story of a man stranded in the middle of nowhere during a blizzard. In his search of a shelter, he found a cottage. What could be waiting for him there?
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GAMEPLAY
Interdimensional Vending Machine offers a simple yet unsettling loop of begging, feeding, and discovering
BEG FOR COINS ON THE STREET
Sit cross-legged under a midnight sky. Watch people walk by. They might look at you. They might drop a coin. They might say something strange, something cruel, or something that doesn’t feel quite human. Every coin matters.
SPEND COINS AT THE VENDING MACHINE
Enter the other scene: a cramped, humming liminal space where the machine waits. Insert yen, and the machine dispenses a random item from an unknown place, time, or reality. Some restore hunger. Some ease thirst. Others… don’t.
EAT OR DRINK TO SURVIVE
Choose carefully. Every item can help, harm, or change you. One may grant energy, another may reduce your ability to speak. One may cure thirst, another may make you forget what thirst even is. Effects are often surreal, mysterious, and sometimes irreversible.
FEATURES
Over 140+ unique food and drink items with strange effects
A minimal yet atmospheric narrative told entirely through environment and item responses
Two-scene gameplay loop: beg and survive
Increasingly surreal effects and visuals the longer you play
Lo-fi, haunting soundtrack to accompany the slow descent into unreality
Multiple hidden endings depending on what—and how much—you consume
Over 140+ unique food and drink items with strange effects
A minimal yet atmospheric narrative told entirely through environment and item responses
Two-scene gameplay loop: beg and survive
Increasingly surreal effects and visuals the longer you play
Lo-fi, haunting soundtrack to accompany the slow descent into unreality
Multiple hidden endings depending on what—and how much—you consume