The Year I Wrote You is a story about love, longing, memory, and loss, based on a real sapphic relationship.

What began as a year of love letters meant to become a Valentine’s Day gift slowly becomes a record of devotion, grief, hope, and the painful process of loving someone who is no longer there. As the player explores the journal, they unlock entries written across a full year, each one capturing a different moment in the relationship, the breakup, and the aftermath.

To unlock these letters, the player must complete dream state levels shaped by memory and emotion. These dreams are reflections of the narrator’s inner world. Facing hope, insecurity, distance, desperation, denial, and the lingering fantasy of being loved back. Some dreams revisit beautiful moments from the relationship, while others force the player to confront the ache of silence, the fear of being forgotten, and the impossibility of changing what has already happened.

At its heart, The Year I Wrote You is about reading what was left behind, walking through the dreams that love created, and accepting the truth waiting on the other side of them.

In Hiraeth, a narrative choice-driven story, you build a time machine to return to the past and confront the relationship you lost. Every decision changes the timeline. Can you rebuild what was broken, or is the outcome inevitable?