The game's story follows , a young man in 19th-century Sweden who decides to "Year Walk" on New Year's Eve to discover if his lover, Stina, will return his affections and if they have a future together. Key Narrative Elements

: Upon reaching the church, Daniel is granted a vision of the coming year. He sees that Stina will be murdered, and he himself will be the one executed for the crime.

: The game features a "Companion" (often found in a separate app or hidden menu) written from the perspective of a modern-day researcher named Theodore Almsten . This layer reveals that the game itself is a reconstruction of events recorded in a mysterious journal, bridging the gap between the 1800s and the present day.

is an atmospheric horror adventure game based on the ancient Swedish tradition of Årsgång (Year Walking), where a person fasts and isolates themselves in a dark room until midnight to then walk to the local church to catch a glimpse of the future.