MyDear.exe Launches on PC With a Cozy Love Story Hidden in an Old Computer

MyDear.exe, the debut game from Bordeaux-based developer Falling Leaves Studio, is now available for PC through Steam and the Epic Games Store. Presented as an interactive love letter from a husband to his wife, the game turns an old computer into the setting for a small-scale adventure about memory, humour, and a lifelong relationship.

Players take on the role of Ellie as she explores folders on a vintage PC interface inspired by the Windows XP era. Rather than treating that desktop as a simple menu, MyDear.exe makes it the world of the game. Files, photographs, letters, notes, and applications become the route through the story of Ellie and Lucien, a couple whose shared life is gradually revealed through the materials left behind on the machine.

The game is priced at $7.75 USD, with regional pricing varying by location. It is also receiving a 40% discount during its launch week. Falling Leaves Studio describes the experience as a compact, approximately two-hour journey, positioning it as a focused narrative game rather than an expansive desktop simulation or long-form puzzle epic.

A romance told through folders and files

The central idea behind MyDear.exe is its "Foldervania" structure: a nonlinear format built around browsing a computer's directories. In practice, that means progress comes from curiosity. Players search through the PC's contents, uncovering items that can offer context, open pathways, solve a puzzle, or simply add another piece to Ellie and Lucien's history together.

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That structure places ordinary digital clutter in a more emotional light. A document, a photo, or a handwritten note saved and scanned into a folder may appear mundane at first glance, yet each object can act as a memory capsule. The game's subject is not just the couple's major milestones, but the small details that make a relationship feel lived in: jokes, habits, correspondence, and traces of the daily life they have built together.

There is a deliberate contrast in using a fictional retro operating system to tell such a personal story. Computer folders are normally associated with order, utility, and forgotten archives. Here, they are a space for reflection. The desktop becomes a place where players can wander, interpret clues, and discover how individual artifacts connect to a wider picture of a marriage.

Falling Leaves Studio has recreated the fake operating system with easy navigation in mind, so the nostalgic interface is intended to support exploration rather than overwhelm it. Players will not be asked to master a real obsolete OS; instead, the game uses familiar desktop language--folders, files, shortcuts, and passwords--as an accessible framework for its story.

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Puzzles, mini-games, and collectible memories

While the emotional narrative is at the center of the experience, MyDear.exe is also designed as a game of discovery. Its activities include puzzles and password-decryption mechanics, asking players to pay attention to the information contained across the computer's many documents. A clue found in one file may help make sense of another, encouraging players to look beyond the obvious path through the folders.

The game also includes a selection of silly mini-games inspired by retro titles and by the characters themselves. Those diversions give the old-PC setting some playful variety and reinforce the idea that the computer contains not only records of the past, but also personal entertainment and shared in-jokes. Their inclusion suggests a lighter counterpoint to a premise rooted in nostalgia and recollection.

Collectibles take the form of memories, including letters, pictures, and notes. These items appear to be the key way MyDear.exe fills in the relationship between its two leads. For players who enjoy examining optional details in narrative games, the folder-based structure offers reason to dig deeper than the minimum needed to reach the next step.

Full voice acting is included for both Ellie and Lucien. That is an important element for a game built around personal history, as voices can give the archived material a more immediate presence than text alone. Their performances are meant to help the couple feel like people behind the files rather than distant names attached to a collection of documents.

A first release from Falling Leaves Studio

MyDear.exe is Falling Leaves Studio's first game. The Bordeaux, France team is led by a developer who previously worked as Game Director and Producer on The Rogue Prince of Persia. The new project heads in a distinctly different direction: not toward fast action or an elaborate combat system, but toward an intimate, cozy story designed to be completed in a single sitting or two.

That scope is part of the game's identity. An estimated two-hour playtime gives it room to deliver a complete arc without demanding the time commitment often attached to larger narrative adventures. For players looking for something self-contained, the short format can be an advantage. The experience is built to leave an impression through a specific setting and a specific relationship, rather than through sheer length.

The Windows XP-inspired aesthetic also taps into a familiar kind of technological nostalgia. For many PC players, desktop icons, old-style folders, and local documents evoke an era when personal computers often felt more private and individualized. MyDear.exe uses that visual language as more than a cosmetic throwback. It makes the computer itself the archive through which a relationship is reconstructed.

Its approach may especially appeal to players drawn to gentle narrative experiments, digital archaeology, and games that tell stories through environmental details. The premise is rooted in a recognizable activity--looking through an old computer--and reframes it as an exploration game. Each folder can potentially contain something practical, something funny, or something heartfelt.

A small PC adventure built around connection

At a time when many games advertise enormous maps, lengthy campaigns, and endless endgame systems, MyDear.exe takes a more contained path. Its goal is not to become a persistent hobby, but to guide players through a curated set of memories. The retro desktop, mini-games, decryptions, and collectibles all serve that central idea: learning about Ellie and Lucien by engaging directly with the digital artifacts of their life.

The title's use of ".exe" captures the meeting point between technology and emotion. Executable files imply function and interaction, while the story behind the interface is about affection and remembrance. It is a concept that makes room for both playful computer-era nostalgia and a more sincere look at the stories people preserve, intentionally or otherwise, on their devices.

For prospective players, expectations should be set around the game's modest, deliberate scale. Falling Leaves Studio is offering a short cozy adventure with exploration, light puzzle-solving, retro-styled distractions, and a voiced romance at its core. Those looking for a lengthy mystery or a technically exact recreation of an older operating system may find a different kind of experience here; the fictional interface exists first and foremost as a stage for Ellie and Lucien's memories.

MyDear.exe is available now on Steam and the Epic Games Store for PC. With its launch-week discount, the game offers an approachable entry point for players interested in a brief, heartfelt journey through a computer full of files--and a life full of shared moments.