As you can see from the image above, the cast will be varied both in gender and ethnicity. Let’s see all the characters now.
Name: Caroline
Background: Growing up on a farm, Caroline is used to working with her hands and has a basic understanding of machinery and weapons. The remoteness of her farm means she and her family were kept out of the worst troubles, digging in until the viral outbreak cleared up. It was on a trip into town for supplies that the military commandeered her vehicle and Caroline was left stranded. She is keen to get back and make sure everyone is okay.
Player can have a romance with Caroline.
Name: Eric
Background: Eric is a former bouncer and body builder, eventually finding a talent for fixing machines and training as a mechanic. Bullied in his youth for his skin color, Eric took an intense interest in becoming stronger in order to defend himself and those around him. Despite his large frame, he is a gentle person with a spiritual side. However, he feels strongly about racism and has ended up in trouble more than once by reacting to it.
Player can have a romance with Eric.
Name: Jenny
Background: Jenny is a student from Germany, visiting Bournemouth for a couple of months on a work placement programme. Warm and friendly by nature, Jenny is always pleased to talk to people, and not just to practice her English. With no news about the rest of the world, Jenny chooses to believe her family are safe from the Zeds and that help from abroad is on the way.
Player can have a romance with Jenny.
Name: Lucy
Background: Lucy joined the UK police force just a couple of months back, despite the disapproval of her parents. She strongly believes in justice and morality, even in the face of the apocalypse. While fighting the zombie uprising, she was separated from her unit and managed to escape – the fate of her fellow officers remains unknown. Lucy dislikes killing the Zeds unless absolutely necessary – they were once people, and she still hopes there might be a way to cure them.
Player can have a romance with Lucy.
Name: Gerald
Background: Gerald is a retired NHS doctor. Long before SHTF he lost his wife to an illness he failed to diagnose, for which he is still blaming himself. They had a daughter, who is now living in Leeds. He has not heard from her since the SHTF and is not sure he could take losing the last of his family.
Name: Renate
Background: Renate is a retired teacher and widow. She moved to Bournemouth from France twenty years ago to marry her husband, Bernard, and has remained here ever since. She has no desire to remarry, happy in the company of her friends and neighbours, always willing to help those in need. Her charm hides a sharp wit and she is not afraid to stand up for herself.
Name: Steve
Background: Steve served in the British military, but was dishonorably discharged due to a couple of racist incidents. Outside of the military, he has mostly been unemployed. He can be difficult to deal with and tends to speak his mind. While his attitude frequently gets him in trouble, his combat training and sense of self preservation just as frequently get him out of it again.
Name: Tom
Background: Tom is a former police officer with experience using a range of firearms. When the SHTF he left his unit to look for his family, but unfortunately he arrived too late. His mother was turned before he could get back and attacked his wife and children. Finding them turned and having to put them down has left him traumatized. His recent behavior has become more aggressive, a cause of some concern for those around him.
Name: Alex
Background: An art student at Bournemouth University, Alex has no career aspirations and no idea what to do with his life. Aside from sketching and drawing, his main interests are video games and circuit training. Alex would much prefer shooting at zombies on his console rather than in real life, but he is coping better with the apocalypse than he realises.
Name: Nicky
Background: The middle child of three, Nicky often feels unnoticed by his parents as they focus on his teenage older brother and his baby sister. This has left him with a tendency to go off on his own, and frequently gets into trouble. Separated from his family when SHTF, he is anxious to find them again – assuming they made it to safety.
Name: Mike
Background: A former gulf veteran, Mike knows how to handle himself. Since returning from the Middle East, he’s found ordinary life quite dull and misses the camaraderie of his unit. Since the SHTF, Mike has rediscovered some meaning in his life – he almost enjoys the danger, though he tends to bond better with those around him with combat experience.
Name: Carl
Background: Carl is a former professional ranger, employed by a local landlord to manage the hunting on the estates and lead tourists who paid a lot of money to shoot roe deer. He has a vast knowledge of hunting and guns, which makes him a valuable addition to any team. However, his antisocial tendencies make him hard to work with and frequently cause friction between him and his team mates.
Name: Emily
Background: The main character’s teenage daughter. Their relationship is somewhat strained since the accidental death of her mother some seven years ago, but she can keep a cool head in a crisis. Some of her parent’s military organisational skills have rubbed off on her and she tries to be prepared for anything.
Before you complain there are more romanceable women than men: we know it, but we’re trying something new this time. We want to add two missing male romances during the beta, depending on the choice of the community. So once the beta is out, expect a poll to vote for the two male romances.
The “candidates” are Steve, Tom, Mike & Carl. Before making the poll, we’ll do another post describing the kind of romance you’d play with each one!
There’s only one male romance but I’m glad he’s just my type!!!
Well if you read until the bottom, we’ll add 2 more, but let people vote which ones 🙂
I would vote for Carl! Not sure who else I would vote for…
Alright!!! This is getting better and better!
No Mac version. 🙁
I know, unfortunately the only way to get it is if the game does well (developer should pay a high cost license for the tool he’s using). In any case I’m “converting” them to use Ren’Py for future games 😛
Slap me if I’m wrong, but I thought the main character would remain “genderless”. However, reading on Emily’s background… “The main character’s teenage daughter. Their relationship is somewhat strained since the accidental death of her MOTHER some seven years ago”. That would mean that the main character is her father, thus a male. Or did I miss something here?
She could have two moms.
To procreate, there MUST be a mother, no? 😀 unless Emily was cloned 🙂
It just says that her mother died. Not that it was a normal heterosexual couple or anything. Could have been two lesbians, one of them gave birth to her. Could have been a gay male that still wanted to have a son. That’s it, don’t read too much behind the scenes, if I said the main character is genderless, IT IS, don’t worry 😉
It’s harder to write correctly those description than the story in the game itself! lol
We vote after playing the beta right? I’m still thinking over which to vote for. I love all these characters and our daughter is sooo cute lol. Do we know what our character looks like or is it like those ganes were we don’t see our faces or body’s?
No the main character’s face is never seen. It’s all in first person view.
And yes the voting will start after the beta began, so you can see a bit of each character, plus the developer will send me a list of “what will happen with this character romance”. For example with Steve (this is not official, just some brainstorming we had with dev):
“There are rumors in camp that Steve´s keeping leather clothes and handcuffs hidden in his tent. To get him to show them to you, you first have to be a really bad boy.”
Lol, stuff like that 🙂
Well, I’m sold!!!
Lol seems like a dangerous hobby in a zombie apocalypse. What if your character is hand cuffed and a zombie heard comes. Lol well I already know my first play through I’m going to get Eric he’s so handsome ^////^.
Yes I wouldn’t call “playing bondage” a safe hobby in that setting too!! Lol
Zombie apocalypse simulation game w/ romance aspects is the kind of oddly specific thing I’ve wanted for some time now and was sure wasn’t going to happen. Can’t wait for release.
Hehe yeah, I always wanted to do such a game too but recently I didn’t had time (obviously with all the games going on) so this opportunity came at the right moment 🙂
Nice idea making it take place in England. Surviving the zombie apocalypse will be a lot harder if the best you can do as far as weapons are a cricket bat and maybe a double barrel shotgun.
Haha, anyway as they showed on Mythbusters, the most efficient weapon against zombies is a katana / big knife / melee weapons, not firearms 🙂
I’m still going to go with the cricket bat. It worked in Shaun of the Dead.
Crowbar’s pretty good for your on-the-go start. Can crush skulls, and good for prying open barriers. That was the analysis from the Zombie Survival Guide. :p
Haha true. Double use for the crowbar. It’s a classic of the zombie universe! 🙂
It worked for Gordon Freeman.
Don’t have an opinion on the male romances, due to my overall lack of interest in them, so… aw, heck, let’s see who I’d rather look into.Carl and Mike. They seem the most… relationship-able. Something sweet with Carl, helping him come out of his shell, and something more straightforward with Mike?
Anyway, all I can say is I’m glad I partitioned a Windows load to my Mac’s hard drive. I can still buy this and help your pets! Also, saving Lucy’s romance for a final play through. She seems my kinda gal.
Thanks for the feedback (devs read the blog/forums) 🙂
Cool about the windows partition! Haha, Lucy is great, I really like the character design. My favorite is Caroline though 🙂
I vote for Tom!
I purchased the game, but having played through I am left wondering if this is only half a game. I take out the bandit camp, only to see a to be continued. I registered the game following the instructions about downloading the demo and then entering the product code, but I feel shafted at the moment.
I have purchased many other Winter Wolves games/VNs but always through Steam. Please help if you can!
Yes you reached the end of the game, we left it open in case we wanted to continue the story later.
Well I obviously hosed up the story then, as my daughter is off somewhere with a psychopath and I got no loving from any of my companions 🙁
Guess it is time to try round #2 … Fingers crossed, hoping for more luck.
Haha yes there are some nice romance scenes to see, worth retrying 🙂