Wheels Echo is a story-driven winter survival game where your own thoughts shape the journey. You play as Fred Walker, a man who left society decades ago to live alone in a frozen forest. But one winter morning, as he drives toward town for supplies, he finds shattered windows, abandoned roads, strange dates carved into objects… and a world that feels wrong. What follows is a mystery-driven experience where the main mechanic is not combat or looting — but thinking. Sit by a campfire, enter Fred’s “thinking state,” listen to his inner voice, and write down his thoughts manually into a physical notebook. What you choose to write — and how you interpret it — determines which quests, clues, jokes, negative tasks, or meaningless scribbles become part of Fred’s story. Your notebook is the quest system. Your thoughts are the progression.