Winter Memories: An Overlord’s Guide

is the acclaimed sequel to Summer Memories, a romance visual novel-slash-strategy game where you romance your two cousins, Rio and Yui, and their mother Miyuki, as well as several other girls in a small rural town.

In Winter Memories, you are given 17 days, more or less, to achieve as many memories as you can, and satisfy yourself with the heroines.

The three main heroines are now fully accepting of the player. You may have sex with them virtually anywhere and anytime. While Summer Memories was a challenge of conquest, in Winter Memories that conquest is already complete, and the game is a much more sandbox experience.

There is now a Level Up system which can be used to improve the main character’s stats.

The Alertness of the uncle now also increases when he encounters messy rooms, which builds gradually as sex acts happen there.

Time now passes in 1-minute increments, which increase with each move and most actions.
Most actions and Events now consume a variable amount of time, instead of an entire time period.
Menko is slightly more complex.

There have been various changes and additions to the skill system.

Stamina is now mainly just used for sex. You won’t need to manage it closely this time.

A small number of additional minigames and a chat system have been added.

You may now choose which picture is used in the diary page.

To reach an ending in Winter Memories, you must advance a girl to 100 Affection and witness her final event. At that point, her route will be complete, and you’ll be able to skip to the last day and watch that girl’s ending, from the Diary screen at the end of any day.

However, each time a girl gains 20 Affection, her meter will “Cap” and it will stop increasing until you trigger her next Event. When her scenario advances, the Cap will raise by 20 and you can proceed again. These caps occur at 20, 40, 60, 80 and 100. Both main heroines and all the sub-heroines you can encounter in the town follow this system, and they all have proper endings as well, so you are able to completely neglect the main cast and go make friends in the town if you wish. Be aware – the girls in town will need to clear some of these events before they are willing to have sex with you, and there are often other restrictions as well.

The gameplay loop of Winter Memories is to:
use various methods to build affection with heroines,
trigger events to advance the scenario with them,
have sex with them freely (while managing your uncle’s suspicion)
and explore the little town you’re living in.

Days break down into Morning, Afternoon, Dusk, Night, and if you have a certain skill, Late Night periods. As time passes, some events will become available and others may not. The main 3 girls will almost always be in the house, while the other heroines are all unique in their situations.

• A lot of the things you can do in the game will give you Experience. When it is full, click your head with the ” ! ” Exclamation Point, in the upper right, to gain a bonus. Do this as often as you can.
• Your main stats are Stamina and Lust, but money and items will also be very important throughout the game.
• Stamina and Lust are mainly used for sex. Money and items will be used for many things.
• If you run out of Stamina while having sex, you’ll pass out. Try to avoid this. It won’t happen during most events, though.
• If you don’t properly manage your lust and it overfills, something unfortunate might happen. (But this can have an unexpected benefit too)
• Uncle is in the house, and he will hear you if your sex gets too loud — unless he’s gone to work that day.
• Talk to the girls and you can view how to advance the scenario.
• There are many ways to earn Affection, including giving gifts, having sex, chatting, and triggering various events.
• Various things you do will become Memory Points. These can be spent after each day to unlock any skills you wish from the Skill Tree in the Diary Page, after each day.
• The skills are not created equally, so think carefully about which ones you would like the most.

Winter Memories is a much, much easier game than Summer Memories.

• The girls will actively show how to advance their scenario if you only speak to them – even listing the time period the event will happen ((though a few of these are incorrect as of the English launch version.))
• Your tightest resource, time, is given in ample amounts.
• You don’t have to clear any requirements to have sex with Yui, Rio, or Miyuki. You can unlock virtually any skill on day one, and use it on any/all of the main 3 girls straight away.
• Most importantly: Most events do not increase Uncle’s suspicion, so it is much, much easier to manage. In Summer Memories, the more you try to achieve in 1 playthrough, the faster you will go through the game’s events, and many of these increase Uncle’s suspicion… this doesn’t really happen in Winter Memories.
• There are even more super-exploitable systems than last time.

So if you make a mistake, or waste a little time, don’t stress too much. Please enjoy vicarious countryside life.

Time increases by 2 minutes when you change screens, or more when changing regions. Various tasks spend various amounts of time. Time spent traveling and doing a few other things can be halved by the skill “Power of Time” in the Map Tree of your Skills.

Usually you’ll be free to spend your time however you like. Events are an exception. Some events happen at very specific points in the game, and others will be triggered by your actions. Most Events will spend 10 or 30 minutes when started, but a few use up quite a bit of time.

Time breaks up into “Frames” or “Slices” or “Periods”.

• Morning is from 8:00AM to 12:Noon (4 hours)
• Afternoon is from 12:Noon to 4:00PM (4 hours)
• Dusk is from 4:00PM to 7:00PM (3 hours)
• Night is normally 7:00PM to 10:00PM * (3 hours)

  However, when you add the “Nightwalker” skill on the Lewd Tree of your Skills page, your Night hours change, and a new time period, Late Night, becomes available…

• Night becomes 7:00PM to 12:Midnight (5 hours)
• Late Night is from 12:Midnight to 3:00AM.

when a Time Frame ends, no matter how much time you spent, the next Time Frame starts right at the beginning, with the exception of LATE NIGHT. If you are away from the house and certain activities take you past Night into Late Night, time will flow normally (!!)

So if you are at 11:58 AM, and you decide to do the dishes, go on a hike, or trigger an event, then when you’re done, it will be 12:Noon, the start of the next time Frame.

But if you are outdoors fishing or cooking at 11:57PM, and time goes past Midnight, you’ll automatically enter Late Night, and time will go on without stopping.

At Dusk, stores close. The candy shop and the shopping mall will be unavailable. Vending Machines will still work, as well as the Shrine and Restaurant.

Night and Late Night are also important.

At any point during the Night phase, you can go to bed by advancing time (Click the Time Frame in the bottom right) or talking to one of the three main Heroines and selecting “Go to bed”. This can trigger various events depending on the date and situation. But this doesn’t work during Late Night.

During Late Night phase, you can click the Time Frame in the bottom right to Go to Bed, but this will not trigger an event. If you go past 3 AM you’ll also be forced to go to bed, and this will also not trigger an event. To put it simply, to trigger “Sleep with” events, you’ll need to go to bed while still in the Night phase!

There are a handful of common items that are always available. Various vending machines around the town provide Core Drinks at 120 Yen each. These give 10 Stamina and 5 Lust.

In addition to this, the Candy Shop also sells Balloon Gum at 200 Yen, which gives 30 Lust.
Bait is available for 50 Yen, which is used for fishing. Lastly you can buy Happy Ramune, which which grants 30 Mood when given as a gift. You can also buy cooking items in the downtown area when the time is right.

There are also other items that can be found, from other cooking ingredients to the valuable Glittering Box. Among them, Protein will restore 50% of your Stamina, and Erection King, 50% of your Lust – with the added benefit of preventing accidental overflow. (Once.) Elixir gives 30 Lust, 30 Stamina, and an instant 10 Memories. Magazines will raise a heroine’s various stats, and you can also find items to improve your Menko (for the Menko minigame)

These items can be found by Rummaging with the Treasure Hunter skill, fishing and winning additional prizes, and winning Menko battles, as well as a couple other well-hidden methods.

Most of these items can be given as gifts to raise Affection by 3 (plus bonuses).
Magazines instead give +15 to various stats, but do not raise affection. Happy Ramune gives 3 Affection in addition to 30 Mood. Some items, like bait and food ingredients, cannot be gifted. Cooked Food can be gifted, though, and it will raise affection faster than other gifts. A Glittering Box will give +20 Affection, maxing out their gauge to the cap in just one gift.

A few rare items can be found that grant new skills. You might even find some suspicious articles of clothing.

There are a variety of minigames scattered throughout the game. You can wash dishes or study to earn money and pass the time. With Bait, you can fish. And various other minigames await discovery. Virtually all of them are worth discovering, so take your time and explore.

You can have sex with all of the girls, and this can be initiated by asking via menu, coaxing them into it, or simply using an appropriate skill on them from your hotbar (without even asking) If they get charged up, they may even ask you…

The three main girls should almost never refuse you, but keep in mind all the other girls will need convincing first. Plus, if it’s in public, you have company, or it’s otherwise the wrong time-and-place, you may be refused (or decide it’s a terrible idea on your own.)

Coax commands do their own thing. They may cause some very interesting scenes to happen, or lead to full-on sex. They tend to cost time, and you need to be able to talk to the girl to trigger them, but otherwise, you can engage them at will.

Otherwise, most sex icons and commands have a similar system.
There are three parts to the gauge – low, medium, and high. Hold left click to raise the gauge, and it will drop on its own. Holding the gauge at max for a few seconds will cause a natural orgasm, or you can middle-click to force one at any time. Right-click locks the gauge position.
You can move around the room and switch between stances freely. Other people nearby may comment on your debauchery!

Once a girl is sexed up, she’ll be knocked out for awhile. You won’t be able to talk to her or give her items until she recovers.

There are lots of other girls in town. A few must be met through previous acquaintances, or providential encounters. Most of them will open new and interesting gameplay systems to you.

Visiting the Shrine is a good way to solve problems, improve your situation, and later on, have a lot of fun. Try the various features and hope for the best. It’s a good place to go if you ever feel stuck.

If you visit the Mountains, you can hike. This will be exhausting, but you could gain a lot of strength. The more strength you put into your hike, the more you’ll get out. Hiking uses up a full Time Slice, though, and it cannot be done at night.

There’s not a lot going on at the Levee, but you if you have skill at fishing, it can be a very profitable location. Visit in the mornings to sell your fish. You could also have a chance encounter here, later in the game…

Thanks for reading. I am still writing this as of 1/27.
– Tolinar