"The Berlin Apartment, a novel new video game, is initially set in 2020. The German capital was in lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and few people walked the streets and cafes and restaurants were closed. The game, created by the Berlin-based indie video game studio Blue Backpack, begins with second-grader Dilara as she accompanies her father, Malik, to work since schools are closed."
"One of the episodes, set in the winter of 1945, is the story of Mathilda, an apartment resident who misses her father. He was a decorated German soldier who hadn't returned from World War II. Mathilda, who lives with her brother and mother, starts decorating the Christmas tree with whatever she can find: Straw stars, medals and bullet casings found in the rubble of her bombed-out city. At their meager Christmas dinner, she asks her mother, "Mom, are we the bad guys?""
The Berlin Apartment is set in 2020 Berlin during the COVID-19 lockdown and opens with second-grader Dilara accompanying her father Malik to a renovation job. As they strip wallpaper and tiles, Malik discovers traces of former residents that unlock playable perspectives spanning over a century of German history. Episodes portray the persecution and murder of Jews under the Nazis, survival in postwar Germany and state repression in the former East Germany (GDR), all portrayed with a gloomy atmosphere. One episode follows Mathilda in winter 1945 decorating a Christmas tree with straw stars, medals and bullet casings while asking, "Mom, are we the bad guys?"; another follows Jewish cinema operator Josef preparing to flee to Paris amid mounting sounds of panic.
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