Kafka's Metamorphosis
Kafka's Metamorphosis' is an emotional short-form story game based on the life of Czech writer Franz Kafka and his most famous novella, 'The Metamorphosis'. The game is set in the fall of 1912 when Kafka wrote The Metamorphosis. It captures Kafka's struggle to live as a writer while being pressured to fulfill roles as a young man, employee, and eldest son. The game aims to explore and express why Kafka wrote The Metamorphosis.
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DeveloperMazM
ReleasedOctober 1, 2024
StatusReleased
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About This Game
A game inspired by the life and literary world of Franz Kafka, built around his most resonant works — particularly The Metamorphosis and The Judgment, both of which center on the complicated and damaging dynamic between a son and his father. Kafka's Metamorphosis uses both the author's own story and that of Gregor Samsa as parallel threads, with the central tension being the conflict Kafka lived between his identity as a writer and the expectations his father imposed on him. The novella is the lens through which both stories are examined.