Culture House

futurala KODANSHA
Indie Visual Novel
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Culture House is a nurturing + adventure game based on biological cultivation experiments. Set in a building influenced by 20th-century modernist houses, the game portrays serene and strange days, unravels the mysteries hidden behind the experiments, and culminates in the arrival of the apocalypse.
Storyline

You will live for 7 days in a residential research facility called CultureHouse, where a missing biochemist once resided, nurturing a mysterious lifeform known as Geneo. As you progress in cultivating Geneo, you'll engage in conversations with visiting characters related to CultureHouse and observe strange occurrences happening in the surroundings. Gradually, the serene life transforms into something peculiar.
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Developer futurala
Publisher KODANSHA
Game Modes Single player
Perspective Text
Themes Science fiction, Drama, Mystery
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