TW: The Forever Winter is a very dark game. Depictions of the City of Los Angeles, gore, and corpse starch are in the intro.

Words cannot describe how much I fucking love the Forever Winter. It is like crack, that's how addicting it is. It's just... good. Sure, yes, it is a buggy mess sometimes, and yes, the Devs really do need to iron out some stuff, but from my experience, the game is very solid for a stealthy survival extraction shooter.

Glazing aside, let's talk about the main attraction here.

The year is 2070. The world has been stuck in WW3 for forty years, propagated by three superpowers:

The Federation of Europa, aka NATO: The Country. A Federation of the collective "west" and less technologically advanced than its enemies. It's on the back foot and explicitly fighting a defensive war against:

The Eurasian Union, a massive state spanning from China to Japan to Southeast Asia. It has all the fancy tech but is a massively overpopulated coffin with a wealth gap that would make Los Angeles blush.

And the Euruskan Federation, a Federation of former Slavic and African states that excel in biotechnology, using it to mold and shape demented works of man-made horrors beyond our comprehension.

This time, you aren't a Scav, but a soldier in the Europan Marine Corps with your girlfriend, a lady from the slums of Chicago. You both are holding the line against invading Eurasians and decide to take a smoke break.

Not Depicted: An actual europan grinn. This is some AI-generated image I found while net surfing.