In this adventure game, you navigate a surreal story based on Kafka's works by making decisions and solving puzzles. Use this interactive experience to explore themes of bureaucracy, family, and alienation. Includes branching narratives, voice acting, and atmospheric environments.
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About Playing Kafka
Can you manage to win an unfair trial? Is the job even real? Can you escape your father’s crushing presence? How do you move forward, when all solutions are obfuscated by a web of unclear rules and machinations…
The game features:
• a fully voiced branching story, based on Kafka’s The Trial, The Castle and Letter To His Father
• atmospheric puzzles, fateful decisions and a drag and drop gameplay that makes characters and environments come alive
• approximately 1.5 hour of story in an ever-changing setting
Three books, three game chapters:
The Trial
You face an opaque legal trial and are slowly sucked into a web of perplexing bureaucracy. It is up to you how to approach the vague, but insidious accusation – choose who to ask for help and how to talk to judges, procurators, and others as the judgment is slowly closing in on you. Does it even matter if you’re innocent?
Letter to His Father
Drawing inspiration from Kafka's unsent confession to his father, this chapter delves into their tense relationship. Try to find the right words that helped Kafka come to terms with his upbringing. See Franz struggle to connect with his father in scenes from the past. Is there any hope of reconciliation?
The Castle
You arrive at a snow-laden village to work as a land surveyor, but you quickly find that nothing is as it seems – locals talk about the village Castle in hushed tones and each day brings more questions than answers. Will you ever be accepted by the forever out-of-reach Castle?
The game was developed to commemorate the centenary of Kafka’s death and was developed in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut, Prague.
The Chinese language version was initiated and supported by the Czech Centre Taipei.
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user63727473
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This is a wonderful game, I would greatly appreciate it if you could continue it.
I_dont_,care
Really, really dark
Edit: forget my ramblings. Make Metamorphosis real. Original: In one of the few routes you get st4bbed. It felt random as before that I was supposed to attend my trial. In the Castle story, they’re pretty explicit in telling you that you had an affair. Yes I know Kafka’s work is supposed to be mature but because this game was rated 9+ I didn’t expect the mvrders to be described so vividly, perhaps 17+ would be better. I do like the aesthetics of the game, and I generally enjoy broody and dark atmospheres. Although, when you move the maid around in the first act, I felt uncomfortable because specific parts kept jiggling. In the end, I still think it’s a gem because of the puzzles and atmosphere. Cover art was pretty awesome. I love the voice acting as it feels professional.
