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Winter Polaris
A mysterious global pandemic is making people disappear into thin air. A mysterious glass object carried by a girl found adrift at sea. Two stories that set two pairs of protagonists off on separate journeys around the world. What does it mean to live, make mistakes, and live again?
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-28.
“Winter Polaris is a quiet, melancholy visual novel built around loneliness, immortality, human connection, and the question of what makes a finite life meaningful. Rather than treating its unusual science-fiction premise as an excuse for action or elaborate world-building, it…”
— a player, Steam review · 12 hrs playedLatest official news
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Winter Polaris available in Chinese!《冬季北极星》中文版现已推出！
Thanks to the help of some wonderful translators and programmers, we're finally able to bring you the Chinese version of Winter Polaris, available both in Simplified and Traditional Chinese. In celebr
Winter Polaris C97 Drama CD available for free download!
Fans of Winter Polaris will be delighted to have access to the drama CD released in Winter Comiket 97, available to everyone for free. Find out more about the mysterious universe that Winter Polaris t
Trading cards are here!
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Typo fixes and Trading cards coming soon
Quick little update. A number of typos that had been reported were fixed, We've also submitted trading cards for review and if everything goes well with that process, they'll be releasing in the near
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-28.
| Genres | Casual |
| Player tags | Casual · Gore · Violent · Visual Novel · Anime · Mature · Text-Based · Blood · 2D (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Partial Controller Support · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, Japanese * , Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese * |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 Processor: 1.2 GHz Pentium 4 Memory: 1 GB RAM Graphics: Integrated Graphics DirectX: Version 9.0c Storage: 2 GB available space