[2][3] Narrated by Kirsten Mize and set in the titular town, the storybook-based exploration game follows Luka uncovering the mysterious secrets of his hometown alongside his friends Rolo and Beck.

[4] Luka VanHorn is a 12-year-old deer boy who lives in Beacon Pines with his grandmother after his father passed away when he was six, and his mother mysteriously disappeared.

While awaiting the town's upcoming Harvest Festival, the pair stumble onto some strange happenings at the abandoned warehouse in the woods near their treehouse.

The cause of this permanent winter is "The Source", an underground reservoir of a mysterious substance, dubbed Tempus Liquamine, that Valentine's Harvest had used to create their famed fertilizer.

Prior to the Foul Harvest, Luka's father, a doctor, realized that an epidemic had begun, as the farmers in Beacon Pines were all suffering similar symptoms related to the rapid aging effects of the fertilizer.

However, a few months before the main story began, Eleanor accidentally aged several decades while investigating the old Valentine's warehouse, allegedly from exposure to The Source.

Left with little choice, she decided to return to town under the guise of Luka's grandmother to continue her investigation, and eventually planned to blow up The Source with explosives, seeing it as an existential threat to her family and community at large.

With Sharper's memory as an adult and social power effectively erased, his children re-adopt "Solomon" and begin working with the town to restore their environment and economy without relying on The Source.