the art of constructing a human

you wake up inside a body that is not your own. you must learn the rules of this new body to escape the nightmare that you put yourself in, and to become human once more.

content warning:

this game contains scenes depicting written descriptions of violence, blood, death, body horror, medical experimentation and depersonalization. 

features:

[] roughly 10,000 words, 56,000 characters, or 44,000 characters excluding spaces depending on which metric you choose (approximately 30-45 minutes of playtime)

[] two endings

[] crt-flavored animated backgrounds and images

[] physical character models

[] a stereo soundtrack

[] a room filled with 300,000 rules

audio samples taken from the following albums:

music for an isolation tank by fennesz / zeitblom / rantasa

wilderness years by gush

waves sound effect from taira komori (https://taira-komori.net/freesounden.html)

game by briggs

playtesting and additional music/sfx by galvinian

made for the seventh annual spooktober visual novel jam in september 2025.

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this is my first completed and released game - joining the spooktober jam helped me to make the push to actually finish something rather than continue to half make visual novels. part of this was also an experiment to see both how far i could push the aesthetics & story of a vn, and also to see how anyone would even react to something like this. i would love to hear your impressions of the game in the comments!