In the indie game Season: A Letter to the Future, the main character is a young woman named Estelle who has never left her home. Outside the town, there is disease, the remnants of a terrible war, and other things worth hiding from. But when her best friend has a prophetic dream about the end of the current Season, Estelle is chosen to leave in search of reasons for the change. She will traverse the world in search of answers, meeting others, taking photos, exploring this beautiful indie game, and leaving information for the future in her journal.
How Long Does it Take To Beat Season: A Letter to the Future
A quick playthrough of this walking simulation will take most players about 6 hours to complete. If players decide to take their time during a play through and try to photograph and record everything they find, the total time can be doubled. In a game that promotes players exploring every nook and taking their time, the story of Season: A Letter to the Future should take no more than about 12 hours.
What Takes the Extra Time in a Long Playthrough?
There is a lot to do in a slow and relaxing playthrough of Season: A Letter to the Future. Players will delve into the past by exploring abandoned sites where people used to live, collecting ancient letters and pictures to add to Estelle's notebook. Players can take the time to enjoy views, sketch backgrounds, and even scrapbook on their journey through the world.
The extra time to play this indie game comes from taking photos of all the interesting sites with Estelle's Polaroid camera, pasting them into the scrapbook to show what she sees to future generations. Players can also record sounds of different locations, like filming the songs that music boxes make, the chirps of birds, the sounds of water flowing, and the groans of ancient artifacts holding themselves up against the wind.
This relaxing indie game also gives players that are willing to take the time the ability to chat with people, pet the animals, and study or read the notes and relics left behind by those humans who are no longer alive. With all those extra activities and conversations and stops along the way, players will find the number of hours their playthrough of Season: A Letter to the Future expand by quite a bit.
Season: A Letter to the Future is available for PC, PS4, and PS5.