A visual novel about real love between two people from different worlds. Built by an ordinary person who simply couldn't stay silent.
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"With you it feels... different. Easy."
— Marjana, from the game
What is this
You play as two people — a man from Russia and a woman from Ukraine — who find each other through a chat app in 2021. What begins as anonymous conversation slowly becomes something neither of them can name. Then the world changes.
Your choices shape the relationship. What you say — and what you don't — determines whether love survives distance, silence, and the weight of history.
Messenger-style dialogs. Choose your words carefully.
Three different endings based on how you played — not just the last level.
New messages from the characters every day — the story keeps going.
Russian, English, Dutch. The story travels.
The real story
This game is based on a real story. A real book. Written by the person who lived it.
Two strangers find each other in a chat app. Pandemic. Lockdown. Both married. Both lonely.
Months of daily conversation. Something grows that neither can explain or stop.
The world changes. She is in Lviv. He is in Russia. The distance becomes something else entirely.
She leaves Ukraine. The Netherlands. A new sky, a foreign language, the same phone screen.
He turned the story into a game. Not a programmer. Not a writer. Just a person who needed the world to know.
The hardest part
This is not a story about people who turned their backs on their countries. He loves Russia. She loves Ukraine. Neither one betrayed anything.
They are not together. Not because the love died — but because each of them loves their homeland too much to leave it behind. That is not weakness. That is the most painful kind of honesty.
And yet — the love exists. Across the distance, across the silence, across everything. It exists and refuses to be a political statement. It is simply human.
"Distance brought us closer. And distance keeps us apart. Both things are true at the same time."
Who made this
I am not a game developer. Not a programmer. Not a writer by profession. I am an ordinary person who had an extraordinary story — and couldn't let it disappear.
I wrote the book first. Then I built this — learning everything from scratch — because I wanted her to feel what I felt. And I wanted the world to understand that between our peoples, even now, there is love.
She doesn't know this exists yet.
"This is not about politics. This is about love."
— from the about page
Free. No registration. Works on any phone. Available in English, Dutch and Russian.
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