''The Franz Kafka Videogame'' is an indie

adventure game An adventure game is a video game genre in which the player assumes the role of a protagonist in an interactive story driven by exploration and/or Puzzle video game, puzzle-solving. The Video game genres, genre's focus on story allows it to draw ...

inspired by the writings of Franz Kafka. It was developed by

Denis Galanin Denis Galanin (born 26 April 1983) is a Russian video game developer and children's picture book author. He is best known for the creation of several award-winning art games such as ''Hamlet'' and ''The Franz Kafka Videogame''. Life and career D ...

Plot

The protagonist, K., gets a sudden offer of employment. This event changes his life, forcing him to make a distant voyage. To his surprise, the world beyond his homeland appears to be stranger than he thought.

Gameplay

''The Franz Kafka Videogame'' features gameplay similar to Denis Galanin's previous game. The player interacts with the world through a simple point and click interface. The goal of ''The Franz Kafka Videogame'' is to solve a series of puzzles and brain teasers. The puzzles are sequentially linked, forming an adventure story. The game contains no inventory, and the solving of puzzles mainly consists of clicking onscreen elements in the correct order. Solving a puzzle will immediately transport the player character to the next screen.

Development

''The Franz Kafka Videogame'' was developed over a period of 2.5 years by

. The game was fully improvised throughout the entire period of development.

Reception

The announcement of ''The Franz Kafka Videogame'' in 2013 attracted the interest of such non-video game media as Time, NBC News, NY Daily News, etc. On review aggregate '' OpenCritic'', ''The Franz Kafka Videogame'' had an average 66 out of 100 review score with 10% approval rating based on 10 reviews. On review aggregator Metacritic, the game received a 64 out of 100, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Critics praised the visual style, while criticizing the short length and confusing puzzles. Riot Pixels said the game was "a beautiful nightmare, cozy and purple like A-minor." Renata Ntelia at Adventure Gamers said it was "a pleasant little puzzle game that will evoke a lightweight nostalgia for people that have prior knowledge of its namesake’s work," but argued that "its limited gameplay ultimately doesn’t provide anything more than a couple hours, at most, of surreal diversion." Harvard L. at Digitally Downloaded called it "a game which is often confusing and unintuitive, but it gets away with it under the guise of being true to its source material.

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