The Franz Kafka Videogame

The Franz Kafka Videogame, adından da anlaşılacağı üzere oynanıştan çok atmosfer ve sembolizm üzerine kurulu bir deneyim. Kafka’nın absürt, tekinsiz ve anlamı bilinçli olarak muğlak dünyasını başarılı şekilde yansıtıyor. Bulmacalar basit ama yaratıcı. Mantıktan çok sezgiyle ilerliyorsun; zaten oyunun derdi “zorlamak” değil, tuhaf hissettirmek. Görsel stil sade ama karakteristik, müzikler ve sessizlik kullanımı da temaya uyumlu. Ancak oyun oldukça kısa ve derinlik arayanları tatmin etmeyebilir. Hikâye anlatımı bilinçli olarak dağınık olduğu için Kafka’ya aşina olmayan oyunculara fazla “ne oluyor şimdi?” dedirtebilir. Özetle: The Franz Kafka Videogame, herkese hitap etmeyen ama ruhu olan bir oyun. Sanat tarafı güçlü, oynanış tarafı ise ortalama.

This is Franz Kafka's literary ethos translated flawlessly into interactive space. Most games misuse "Kafkaesque" as a shallow shorthand for bureaucracy or weirdness. This title, however, grasps the true essence of Kafka's world—including its subtle, ludicrous, and deeply absurd sense of comedy: that exact brand of deadpan humor Kafka himself found in the human condition. It brilliantly captures the spatial and psychological friction of a Kafkaesque situation. Every environment feels like an inescapable, labyrinthine system built to disorient and oppress. What elevates it even further is its rich intertextuality; the subtle nods, subtexts, and references to Kafka's body of work are woven so artfully into the mechanics and level progression that discovering them brings a genuine smile to any reader's face. The gameplay loops actively reinforce the narrative themes, balancing existential dread with razor-sharp, ironic wit. A compelling, uncomfortable, and intellectually thrilling achievement. For fans of literary narrative games and Kafka’s prose, this is an absolute masterpiece. Recommended.

很有创意，也很文艺，但是作为游戏不好玩

太过于奇幻怪诞以至于无法理解。

Bad Game

看到游戏介绍灵感源于卡夫卡的作品才买的，，但是玩起来很难受，首先是中文翻译乱七八糟，其次这个游戏里的解谜很多都莫名其妙，毫无游戏性可言。哪怕打折就几块钱也觉得买了是污染库存的东西...

The creator obviously read Kafka's stories (Not just his popular ones, but more obscure ones like "On the Tram" and "Before the Law") , and you could say the design is somewhat "Kafkaesque," in the sense that the puzzles are irreducably busted and pointless. Unfortunately, as an experience, it doesn't push things far enough to truly be good or compelling. The crummy thing about this game's design is that you are just left with a random setting with little clue as to what to do. Sometimes the solution is painfully obvious, other times it's incredibly unclear. The hints were kind of necessary because there's absolutely no explanation as to what you're supposed to be doing most of the time. In point and click games usually some little hints is buried in the dialogue, but here you get a blank screen with a bunch of (usually) red herrings, so the solution is sometimes something that can't be figured out without the hint system, which is bad. A few cleverly satisfying puzzles, but overall incredibly pointless and not really a game worthy of Kafka's name.