Kaezaru no Mori: The game is a horror adventure that begins in a small town high school when Tatsuya the main hero and his 2 friends decide to enter deep into the forest in the search of his missing classmate. But things won't be as easy as they though since they will find ghosts, corpses and other perils until they can survive that night.

The gameplay as in most visual novels in choosing one of the possible answers to advance, as a peculiar thing in some choices there is a time limit, but the game allows the player to use items to advance through the game, also there are choices that will leave to different endings, and the player's character can also die in most of them.