The game opens with Mae's grandfather offering to tell her a Longest Night story. The player takes control of Adina Astra who wants to travel to the Frozen Lake on the other side of the forest to see her deceased lover and find the Ghost Star. However she discovers that she must find the Forest God to earn safe passage through the forest.
The Forest
Walking right (east), Adina will come across some bells that she can make chime by hitting them with snowballs. To collect snowballs, simply click the ground. To throw, click at what you what Adina to hit. Adina will then meet a Talking Cat on a bridge who forewarns of her death. Shortly after entering the forest, Adina will come across an arm sticking out of the snow (which will come in handy later). Adina also meets a fox in a cabin who wants to preemptively sell her a coffin and a mouse on a shrine who wants her to pray to the Forest God (which Adina does not know how to).
At some point, the player will find a sparkling patch of ground that they can inspect. Adina will comment that it looks like a good place to build a snowman. Using snowballs, the player must hit the sparkling branches that have snow on them to make the snowman's body. After makings its face, Adina can talk to the snowman, however they are very confused and of no help to Adina's journey. Adina will come across a second patch of sparkly ground. After making the body, Adina will comment that she needs 'something special' for its face. The player must search for a planchette in the trees above and bring it back to the snowman. The snowman will reveal itself to have been a medium and fortune teller whilst alive and will tell Adina how to properly pray to the Forest God. She also informs Adina that spirits will often stay connected to personal objects.
Returning to the shrine, the player will discover that the Talking Cat has eaten the mouse and taken his hat. Adina needs to pray to the Forest God as the fortune teller ghost/snowman told her to and she will be transported to the Forest God's Mountain.
The Forest God's Mountain
The player will find two more patches of sparkling ground and there are several trees with snow on their branches around to make snowmen out of. Hitting the bell on the other side of the drop will cause a blind 'Godtender' named Brown to appear. He will refuse to let Adina see the Forest God as she is not royalty. The player needs to make the bodies of two snow men and then return to the Forest to find items to make faces out of which includes: a bottle with a cat's paw on it, a pad lock, a trumpet and a dog's collar. Returning to the Mountain, Adina will use whatever snowmen she makes to convince Godtender Brown that she is royalty and that they are her entourage. Brown will allow Adina across the drop by making a bridge however he will not let her see the God because it is ill. He mentions The Huncher, an enemy of the Forest God. Brown grants Adina safe passage through the Forest.
The Forest (Part 2)
After leaving the Mountain, Adina will come across a King and his entourage who also want to go to the Frozen Lake as well as see The Huncher for unexplained reasons. They mention that they are going to burn the arm of a dead criminal to light the way to the Huncher's Hollow. The player needs to find the arm they saw at the start of the game and take it to the fox's cabin to use his stove to set it alight. After walking a short distance, Adina will be transported the Huncher's Hollow.
The Huncher's Hollow
Walking right, the player will come across a cabin on slits. Adina's footsteps on the stairs alert the Huncher to her presence and she will be transported inside the cabin into the basement. Going upstairs, Adina meets the Huncher, an old hunch backed mouse, and a Kid playing an instrument. The Huncher threatens Adina, saying that she will kill her, but only after the 'smell' of the Forest God is gone. After exhausting all the dialogue, Adina will be forced to leave. Travelling past the house, the player will find another sparkling patch. However there are no tree branches low enough for Adina to hit. The player must go back to the cabin and hit the gold weather vale on top of it. This will upset the Huncher who will come out to investigate. The player must sneak Adina into the cabin without being seen. Inside, the player must steal the relic from the attic shrine and go outside again. Hitting the weather vale will have caused snow balls to fall from the trees meaning the Adina can make a snow man. Using the shrine relic, Adina discovers that the ghost connected to it is the Huncher's sister. Adina will be transported out of the Hollow.
The Frozen Lake
Before going to the Frozen Lake, the player has the option of meeting the Forest God if they return to its mountain.
Adina can now travel to the Frozen Lake, seeing the Talking Cat on the way, and meet with her deceased lover again who will show the the Ghost Star.
THE END
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