"A novel new video game, "The Berlin Apartment" is set in 2020 when Germany was in lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and when few people walked the streets and cafes and restaurants were closed. It begins with second-grader Dilara as she accompanies her father Malik to work since schools are closed. Malik has been tasked with renovating an apartment in an old building in Berlin. As they begin to remove the wallpaper and tiles, they discover traces of the former residents."
"One of the episodes, set in the winter of 1945, is the story of Mathilda, an apartment resident who misses her father a decorated German soldier who hasn't returned from World War II, which was started by Nazi Germany. Mathilda, who lives with her brother and mother, starts decorating the Christmas tree with whatever she can find: Straw stars, medals, bullet casings found in the rubble of her bombed-out city."
The Berlin Apartment places players in a 2020 lockdown-era Berlin where a father renovating an apartment and his child uncover traces of past residents. Players inhabit multiple former occupants across four-hour playable vignettes spanning over a century of German history. Episodes portray Nazi-era persecution, wartime survival, and GDR state repression with a consistently gloomy atmosphere. Individual stories include Mathilda's 1945 winter Christmas of sparsity and doubt, and Josef's 1933 forced flight after his cinema is burned, conveyed through immersive objects, sounds, and domestic spaces revealed during renovation. Sound design and found objects heighten suspense and historical immersion.
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