Hey, this was a really lovely and thoughtful experience. I fully admit to playing around in the snow and making shapes with my footprints in the first couple screens, then switching between exploration and focused travel for each sort of story beat depending on what I was feeling at the time. Made for something... I dunno, linear but still with my own spin on things, and it was set up really, really well.
(I also really hope my I was able to keep ahold of the meat, I'd have hated to go through all that with only a handful of berries to show for it, lol)