At various points, the player must make choices which will affect dialogue and determine what path the game will take. The game uses texts and sprites in a manner similar to many Japanese visual novels and runs on the Ren'Py visual novel engine. In the days that follow, Semyon must navigate the relationships and possibly find love with the various people he encounters, while trying to solve the mystery of how and why he was brought to this place, and how to escape and return to his former life once it becomes evident he may be trapped in a time loop.

Semyon soon discovers it is a Pioneer Camp populated by youth, including several attractive girls who show interest in him furthermore, he has reverted to his 17-year-old self and it is now the mid-1980s Soviet Union.

One winter day he boards a bus to attend a reunion, falls asleep along the way, and awakens to find it's now summer and he's dropped off at the front gates of a place called Sovionok ('owlet' in Russian). Semyon is a reclusive 25-year-old living in a large city somewhere in the early 21st century Russia, spending most of his time in his flat interacting with others on his computer and earning enough to keep the bills paid. An online version with restored adult content was released on Nutaku in August 2015. The game includes some adult content which was removed from the Steam release. The English translation was released in November 2014 when the game was made available on Steam. It was originally produced in Russian and was first released in December 2013. Everlasting Summer is a visual novel, produced by Russian game developer Soviet Games, that tells the story of a 25-year-old man living in modern Russia who finds himself mysteriously transported to a summer camp somewhere in the Soviet Union.

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