• At one point the Butcher says “Inside, I have teeth”. This line comes from a flubbed transcription my phone made of a voice message my optometrist (Insight Eye Optique) left reminding me of an upcoming appointment.
• The squirrel is The Whiteout's oranges. If that doesn’t make sense, google “godfather oranges”.
• In Danny’s drawing of his family, Emily is the only person not smiling. This was to enforce how she was struggling with everything even before more terrible things would befall the family.
• The game’s snowman logo is only seen in the game world once, as a water stained drawing hanging in the children’s bedroom at the Marsh’s place.
• The game is built on top of the same framework that I made for Post Hero.
• The Walton County Corrections bus on Country Road is the school bus from YGMTB. (Literally, not canonically!)
• Clara Rocks Scenic Overlook is so named because my daughter wrote “CLARA ROX!” on the original grid paper map for the game.
• The inventory description of the key used to unlock the rail car is “A small key. I hope it’s not useless.”, a reference to the Useless Key in Post Hero.
• In Sarah’s house in Good Hope, there are portraits arranged on the wall behind the couch with some missing. This is a reference to Generations.
• When you open the mailbox at the end of the cabin’s driveway, there is a faded leaflet inside. This is a reference to Zork.
• There are references to the TV shows “Parks and Recreation” and “The IT Crowd” in City Hall.
• June's line about her dad, the car and milkshakes when she first enters the diner is something my own father would do.
• The dead woman in the car was drawn from a reference photo I took of my wife who agreed to put on a winter coat and hat and sit in the passenger seat of the car. On a 90 degree day in August.
• The family photo hanging on the wall in the cabin is derived from a photograph of my family that was taken at Disney World when our kids were little.
• The story the traveler recounts about snow during a little league game is a true one. It happened during one of my son’s games, and the names of the teams are teams he has played on.
• The game takes place in Georgia, and Good Hope is an actual town there. I was looking at a list of “small towns in GA” to find a name, and that one was just too good to not use.
• When June enters the walk-in, Kris says "Angel! Thank goodness you're here!". I was playing Thank Goodness you're Here when I was writing the scene.
• I made Sarah's house tidy and normal, and made her a bit of a neurotic cleaner because I was tired of drawing broken and ruined things.
• The original implementation of the snow was not very performant and was killing the frame rate in busier scenes. The current snow is a repurposed version of the star field from Garbage Scow Captain.
• The saw dust effect in the tree stand mini-game is actually the snow effect, just cropped and with the color inverted.
• The close-up of Cobb on the bridge is derived from a selfie.
• Cobb is wearing the hat that Emily knitted for Danny. You can see it very briefly in his close up.
• The traveler’s monologue about conserving electricity for the greater good is a riff on people that refused to wear masks during the pandemic.
• The artwork in the hotel lobby is from the Art&.. More Playdate game. The same art is also hanging on the wall in the fireplace room in Generations.
• You only ever go into the lobby of the hotel on one branch of Chapter IV. This version of the chapter is my personal favorite.

• Proceed to the right to the abandoned vehicle and tap through the interactions.
• Proceed to the right to the delivery van.
• Interact in the center of the van, and get the lug wrench.
• Proceed to the right and interact with the door of the van.
• Walk back to the abandoned vehicle.
• Use the lug wrench on the door.
• Run through the interactions, get the wire coat hanger.
• Walk back to the delivery truck. Use the coat hanger on the door.
• Run through the interactions on the delivery door now that it's open.
• Walk to the right until you encounter the pile up.
• Walk back to the delivery van, take the socket wrench.
• Walk to the left to the road sign. Use the socket wrench on the sign.
• Take the sign.
• Walk back to the pile up, and use the sign.
• Proceed to the right, and take the Rural Route 5 exit.
• Enter the service station.
• Enter the service station garage and interact with the radio.
• Head back outside and walk to the right.
• Interact with the rabbit snare and make a choice to free or kill the rabbit.
• Enter the church. It will be too dark to go any further.
• Exit the church and continue to the right.
• Walk down the driveway.
• Interact with the cabin door until you are able to enter. Walk to the left.
• Interact with the door. The deadbolt is rusted and will not turn.
• Interact with the fireplace.
• Walk back to the right, and interact with the open door.
• Enter the hallway, and enter the first door.
• Interact with the vanity. Take the can of WD-40.
• Exit the bathroom, and continue to the right.
• Interact with the attic door.
• Enter the second doorway.
• Interact with both beds. Take and read the note sticking out from under the bed on the right.
• Exit the bedroom, continue to the right. The back room is too dark to continue into.
• Exit the hallway back to the main room of the house.
• Exit the house through the front door. Walk to the right to the shed.
• Enter the shed, and take the flashlight from the shelf.
• Exit the shed and walk to the left until you return to Rural Route Five.
• Walk to the service station, and enter the garage.
• Interact with the radio, get the working flashlight.
• Leave the service station and walk to the church.
• Enter the church, take the candle lighter.
• Leave the church and walk back to the cabin.
• Enter the hallway and walk back to the dark bedroom.
• Open the wardrobe. Take the hat.
• Interact with the bed, then interact with the box that was underneath the bed.
• Read the letter.
• Walk to the chest of drawers, take the box cutter.
• Exit the bedroom into the hallway. Use the candlelighter to open the attic door.
• Enter the attic. Walk to the right and take the BB gun. Note: The BB gun will not be there if you already dealt with the wolves.
• Walk to the left, and use the box cutter on the box for charity.
• Exit the attic and head back to the door with the rusted deadbolt.
• Use the can of WD-40 on the door.
• Enter the sunroom. Walk to the right and interact with the words painted on the wall.
• Exit the sunroom through the broken glass door.
• Walk to the right. Examine the pile of snow.
• Read the note underneath the paper weight.
• Walk to the right, enter the spring house.
• Take the bottle of bourbon from the rafters.
• Exit the spring house. Walk out onto the pier and run through the interactions there.
• Walk to the left until you come to a pack of wolves. Use either the dead rabbit or the BB gun.
• Walk as far left as you are able, and then walk back to the right.
• Interact with "the path forward".
• Walk to the right. Interact with the binoculars.
• Use the d-pad to move the binoculars all the way to the right. Note the flash of light on the water tower.
• Exit the binoculars.
• The chapter ends.

• Walk to the right. Interact with the barn door.
• Continue to the right. When the truck comes, walk back to the barn and go inside. Failing to enter the barn before the truck comes will result in death.
• Interact with the broken glass.
• Interact with the ladder and go up into the loft.
• Walk to the right and interact with Sarah. Note that if you leave the barn before talking to Sarah, you will be killed when the truck returns.
• When she asks what you have to trade, she is interested in either the bourbon or the rabbit's foot. Anything else she will reject, but the dialog will continue. The conversation you have with her will be different based on what you offered her.
• Once you've finished talking with Sarah, leave the barn and head to the right.
• Listen to the goons on the bus. Note that entering the bus at this point will result in death.
• Continue to the right. When you hear a snap, and the snoring stops, stop walking and wait for the snoring to start again. Continuing to walk will result in death.
• Interact with the base of the tree stand.
• Optionally go up into the tree stand, but doing anything there will result in death. This includes taking the rifle or walking to the left side of the platform.
• Continue to the right until you reach the caboose.
• Enter the caboose. This is a mini game. If you are in a light area when the song stops, you will be killed.
• Move through the lit areas when the Butcher is singing. Take the hacksaw from the wall.
• Exit the caboose before she finishes her song. "Thats the last, now I'm done" is the final lyric. Not leaving before she finishes results in death.
• Head back to the tree stand. Interact with the support on the left.
• Hold the A button to use the hacksaw while Jimmy is snoring. If you saw when he is not snoring, you will die.
• Once you are almost through the support, the blade will snap.
• Walk to the left and trigger the "snap". Jimmy will wake up and the tree stand will collapse. Note that if you go up into the tree stand after sawing off the support it will collapse and you will die.
• Interact with Jimmy's body and either take his parka, or wear it.

Taking Jimmy's Parka

• Walk to the bus. Use the parka on the smoke pipe.
• Watch the cut scene, then enter the bus.
• Find the key on one of the dead goons before time runs out. You will die of smoke inhalation if you do not exit the bus before time expires.

Wearing Jimmy's Parka

• Enter the bus. The goons think you are Jimmy and tell you to bring them more moonshine.
• Head to the second rail car and enter.
• Interact with everything inside.
• Leave the railcar, and walk to the far end of the caboose. Take the bucket.
• Walk to the barrier before the first rail car, and use the bucket to collect the icicles.
• Walk to the ruins of the tree stand, and take some wood.
• Walk back to the railcar. Use the wood on the stove.
• Interact with the stove. Blow into the device's microphone until the fire catches. Note: As of v1.0.2, you can also hold the A Button to light the fire if your mic doesn't work.
• Use the bucket of icicles on the stove to get a bucket of water.
• Use the bucket of water on the condenser.
• Use the bucket at the end of the still.
• Take a mason jar and use it on the bucket.
• Return to the bus.
• Search the goons for the key when they've passed out drunk.

Chapter continues ...

• Walk to the first rail car and use the key. Open the door and enter the rail car.
• Interact with the prisoner. Nothing in your inventory can free him from his bonds.
• Walk back to the barn and get the broken glass.
• Walk back to the rail car. The prisoner is gone.
• Continue to the right to the diner.
• Continue to far side of the bridge.
• Walk up to Cobb.
• The chapter ends.

• Watch the cut scene.
• Exit the sniper scope.
• Walk to the left until you get to the town square.
• Interact with Sarah.
• Interact with the bodies. The body on the right has a lighter. Note: If you don't take the lighter here, it can later be found in the kitchen at Sarah's house.
• Walk to the left to the goons' truck.
• Interact with the door.
• Walk to the rear of the truck, and get in the back.
• Interact with the truck's back window.
• Exit the truck, and walk to the right to the Pine and Lantern Pub.
• Walk to the left, and enter the kitchen.
• Walk to the third cabinet. Take the spatula.
• Head back to the rear of the truck. Once in the back, use the spatula on the rear window.
• Exit the back of the truck and open the door of the truck.
• Interact. You need a way to start it.
• Head back to the pub's kitchen. Walk all the way to the right until the floor shifts.
• Interact with the floor mat. Enter the tunnels.
• Walk all the way to the far left. Interact with the ladder.
• Walk to the left into the hardware store. Interact with the boxes on the shelves behind the register.
• Go back to the tunnels and go up the next ladder to the right into a janitor supply closet.
• Interact with the mop and take the mop handle.
• Head back to the hardware store and use the mop handle on the boxes.
• Take a carriage bolt.
• Head back outside and use the carriage bolt on the truck.
• Interact with the truck which will take you to the diner exterior. Enter the diner.
• Walk to the right and enter the kitchen.
• Walk to the left and interact with the walk in door.
• Exit the kitchen back to the dining room. Walk to the left and enter the restroom.
• Interact with the wall on the far right.
• Go back to the kitchen and open the cabinet beneath the grill and take the grill scraper.
• Walk back to the bathroom and use the grill scraper on the wall.
• Use anything in your inventory other than the grill scraper.
• Interact with Kris.
• Head back to the kitchen and go out the back door.
• Interact with the butcher.
• Either push her into the dumpster, or say hello to her. If you push her in and fail to lock the lid, you will die when you walk away.
• Take the bucket.
• Walk back to the kitchen and use the bucket in front of the walk-in door.
• Interact with the bucket.
• Use the device's crank to unscrew the four screws holding the vent in place.
• Interact with the bucket and enter the walk-in.
• Interact with Kris. Interact with the panels on the far left.
• Interact with the door. Interact with the shelves to the left of the door.
• Exit the walk in and go back to the dining room, and then through the front door.
• Interact with the truck.
• Enter the service station. Interact with the locked tool chest.
• Use the crank to set the combination. Press A to advance to the next number. Valid combinations are 4321 (easy guess), 1776 (flag is a hint) or 1140 (Panic's street address)
• Take the pliers from the toolbox.
• Leave the service station, and interact with the truck.
• Enter the walk in, and use the pliers on the wall panel.
• Meet Kris by the truck. Interact with Kris, and then interact with the truck.
• Speak with Kris and Sarah.
• Go upstairs and speak with the traveler.
• Go back downstairs, and speak with Sarah in the kitchen.
• Go outside and speak with Kris.
• Interact with the truck.

If you wore Jimmy's parka:

• Enter the barn, and go up in to the loft.
• Walk all the way to the right. Walk back and forth until the floor collapses and you fall into a root cellar.
• Interact with the boxes and choose which one to take.
• Get back into the truck and leave before the timer runs out. Failure to do so results in death.

If you used Jimmy's parka on the stove pipe:

• Enter the rail car. Interact with the gate.
• Exit the rail car, walk to the left.
• Interact with the ladder. Walk to the far right side of the top of the rail car. Walk back and forth until the roof collapses.
• Interact with the boxes and choose which one to take.
• Get back into the truck before the timer runs out. Failure to do so results in death.

If you took the ammo:

• You'll be in Sarah's living room. Talk with Kris.
• Go upstairs and talk to Sarah.

If you took the first aid kits:

• You'll be in Sarah's guest room. Speak with the traveler.
• Head downstairs. Speak with Kris.
• Speak with Sarah in the kitchen.

If you took the canned goods:

• You'll be in the kitchen. Talk with Sarah.
• Go upstairs and check on the traveler.
• Exit the guest room and talk with Kris in the living room.
• Speak with Sarah in the kitchen.

Chapter continues ...

• Interact with the door to city hall.
• Continue to the left and enter the pub. Go into the tunnels to the janitor supply closet.
• Take the aerosol can from the shelf.
• Head back to city hall.
• Use the mini flame thrower on the front door. (Lighter + aerosol can). Note: If you don't already have the lighter from the dead 'pecker, it's in a drawer in Sarah's kitchen.
• Enter city hall.
• Walk to the left and enter the doorway.
• Walk to the end of the hall and interact with the last door.
• Walk to the right, exit the hallway and enter the door on the far right.
• Take the fire extinguisher.
• Return to the hallway on the left, and walk to the end. Use the fire extinguisher on the door.
• Enter the room, and walk to the first storage locker and interact with it.
• Leave the room, and go back to the lobby.
• Interact with the GA state flag.
• Return to the Public Works office, and use the flag on the storage locker.
• Take the walkie talkies.
• Return to Sarah's house.
• Speak with Sarah and Kris.
• Walk to the left side of the cat walk. Interact.
• Walk to the right side of the catwalk.
• Walk back to the left side of the catwalk and interact again.
• Exit the catwalk walk to the left.
• Interact with the traveler.

If you took the first aid kits, he says he will meet you at the hotel. If you took the canned goods or the ammo, he will be delirious with fever. Interact with him and help him back inside, or don't. Walking past him without interacting is considered the same as choosing not to help him.

If you took the first aid kits or the canned goods:

• Walk toward the hotel.
• Interact with Kris in the town square.
• Head toward the hotel to the alley way between it and the hardware store. Enter the alley.
• Go up the fire escape.
• Enter the open window.
• Leave the room and walk all the way to the far left side of the hallway.
• Interact with the door.
• Walk to the right. Watch the cutscene with Cobb and Sarah.
• If you took the first aid kits, the traveler will appear and fight Cobb, pushing Cobb over the edge of the roof to his death.
• If you took the canned goods, and you helped him back inside, he will appear and he and Cobb will go over the side of the roof to their deaths. Otherwise, Sarah and Cobb will go over the side of the roof to their deaths.

If you took the ammo:

• Head to the Pub and enter the tunnels.
• Enter the janitors closet, and then walk through the now-open door on the left.
• Walk to the far side of the lobby and interact with Kris.
• Exit the hotel and go to the alleyway between the hardware store and the hotel.
• Enter the alley and go up the fire escape.
• Enter the open window.
• Leave the hotel room, and walk to the far left side of the hallway.
• Interact with the door.
• Interact with Kris's body.
• Watch the cut scene with Cobb and Sarah.
• If you helped the traveler back inside, he will appear and he and Cobb will go over the side of the roof to their deaths. Otherwise, Sarah and Cobb will fall to their deaths.

If the traveler survives, he and June leave Good Hope together. Otherwise, June leaves on her own.

The end!