Grief like a stray dog

A wartime visual novel about delivering letters and death notices

Rayonist · Released Jan 29, 2025

Reviews: Very Positive; 99% of 95
Recent reviews: Not enough recent
Players: 0; daily peak, Oct 28, 2026
Steam Deck: Untested
Last update on Steam: 3 months ago; Jul 27, 2026
Minimum PC: GTX 950; 4 GB RAM · 6 GB disk; Full requirements

What is Grief like a stray dog?

This dialogue-heavy visual novel combines a story set during World War II with point-and-click adventure elements. You play Nadia, a thirteen-year-old postwoman, carrying mail between households and talking with residents of a rural Russian village. The story draws on the author's grandmother's childhood and wartime accounts from relatives and locals.

For you if...

+you enjoy historical stories blended with Russian folk tales
+you prefer stories you can finish in one sitting

Not for you if...

−you want action-focused play rather than dialogue-heavy storytelling
−you prefer to avoid stories about death and bereavement

What players say

99% of 95 reviews are positive

Players praise the hand-drawn artwork and the story's portrayal of wartime grief. Individual criticisms concern English dialogue losing nuance and the brief story leaving too little time to connect with its characters.

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Grief like a stray dog system requirements

Minimum: GTX 950, 4 GB RAM, 6 GB of disk space.

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Minimum

OS: Windows 10
Processor: AMD Athlon X4 | Intel Core i5 4460
Graphics: Nvidia GTX 950 | AMD R7 370
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Storage: 6 GB available space
DirectX: Version 10

Does Grief like a stray dog have co-op or multiplayer?

No: single-player only, no multiplayer modes declared.

Single-player

Does Grief like a stray dog run on Steam Deck?

Untested Not yet tested by Valve on Steam Deck.

PC version details

DRM: None declared on Steam
Controller: Full controller support
Platforms: Windows
Achievements: 11
Steam features: Family Sharing
Languages: Text only: English, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese - Brazil, Turkish, Japanese.

Does Grief like a stray dog use AI-generated content?

No AI-generated content is disclosed on the game's Steam page.

Self-reported by the developer under Steam rules: it covers AI content that ships in the game, not tools used to make it. Steam page checked on Oct 27, 2026. How to filter AI games on Steam