Winter Worm, Summer Grass

Winter Worm, Summer Grass is an otome horror visual novel set in a remote mountain village, where lush greenery hides a curse that affects its inhabitants. In spring, flowering plants, creepers and mosses turn villagers’ bodies into garden beds, seemingly joining them with the mountains. The plague is rumored to be a divine curse that strikes everyone who lives there, except for one person.

The villagers

Aoi, the daughter of a well-to-do local family, was blighted by the curse at a younger age than anyone else. Arahitogami is a beautiful young man believed to be blessed and worshipped at the shrine as a living deity. Nazuna, the second son of the shrine’s head priest, is Aoi’s childhood friend and studies medicine in the city.

The Flora Calamity, also called the Great Mistletoe, is a plant parasite that consumes villagers’ flesh. Its victims feel less pain when they stand in the shrine’s sacred grove.

Choices and endings

Your choices determine the characters’ fates and lead to three endings: one good and two bad. The main route takes one to two hours to complete, and the game includes 13 unique illustrations to collect as you progress.