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.
Sad Sapphic Games is an independent game studio focused on small, emotionally resonant experiences that are sapphic in nature. founded by games industry veteran Lead Producer Rhonda Cox.
It started with The Year I Wrote You, an original Game Boy game based on a real relationship and 366 love letters written over the course of a year. The goal being to turn grief into emotionally raw creative works that could be shared with the world.
Sad games for sapphic hearts if you will.
Upcoming Projects
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?
© 2026 Rhonda Ann Cox