Snowed Under | 雪葬

About Snowed Under | 雪葬

Snowed Under, 雪葬 in Japanese, is a 2026 game by Chilla's Art, the studio behind The Convenience Store, Shinkansen 0 and a long row of other Japanese horror games. It came out on Steam for Windows on 13 August 2026. The store puts it at two to four hours, and it's voiced in Japanese with subtitles in English and a dozen other languages.

You're in a mountain town buried so deep that only power lines and the tops of signs show. The job is to dig toward a steel tower on the far side, day after day. A stamina bar drains as you shovel. Eating food you find, or sitting by a campfire, fills it back up. Scrap turns up under the snow, and you spend it on three upgrades: a stronger shovel, more stamina and an extra item slot. The menu caps how much you can buy each day, so progress comes in steps.

Along the way you break into buried houses, a pachinko parlor and bathhouses. Some of them have wolves patrolling inside. Get caught and the screen fades, and you wake up outside without losing what you've collected. Deep, unshovelled snow is the other danger, since wading into it kills you fast. At night you rest in a shelter and talk with Kai, your friend, and those talks slowly turn into the story.

What frightens is mostly the quiet. Early on, the tunnels you cut are narrow and close, with wolf howls and crying in the wind. Further in there's a pale, smiling figure crouched in the dark, which players count as the game's one strong scare. Once your shovel is upgraded the tunnels open into wide fields, and several reviewers felt the tension went with them.

Players on Steam are split. The common complaint is that most of the time goes into shovelling and carrying scrap back to base. Those who liked it point to the change of pace from the studio's shorter games and to the story about the town. It suits Chilla's Art fans who don't mind a slow, repetitive dig, more than anyone after steady frights.

How to play Snowed Under | 雪葬

1. Buy Snowed Under on Steam for Windows and start a new game.
2. Shovel a path through the snow toward the steel tower, keeping out of deep snow you haven't cleared.
3. Watch your stamina bar and refill it by eating food or resting at a campfire.
4. Dig into buried buildings to find food, scrap and clues, and run back to the entrance if a wolf comes for you.
5. Spend scrap on shovel power, stamina and item slots, then rest at night and talk with Kai.

Tips

• Search every building you reach. Scrap for upgrades makes the long dig much faster.
• Relight the campfire when you rest, since players say it refills stamina faster.
• If a wolf catches you, you only respawn outside and keep your progress, so don't be afraid to push into a building.
• Pay attention to what Kai says at night. It's where most of the story is told.

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