Stilstand artwork$3.9993%Very Positive
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Stilstand

A dark, whimsical, and absurd interactive comic by artist Ida Hartmann, exploring the despair and loneliness of a young woman living alone through a long summer in Copenhagen.

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Stilstand is an award-winning interactive comic by artist Ida Hartmann and game studio Niila Games. It is a deeply personal journey into the mind of a young woman as she tries to stay afloat in Copenhagen during a summer riddled with hopelessness. Amid the desire for isolation there’s still a hope that one day, things will change. Maybe the shadow monster in her apartment can help her?

Stilstand is a personal and hand-drawn tale about the high expectations and the fragile limbo of feeling stuck in life. It is a whimsical and absurd portrayal of anxiety, loneliness, and despair, and brings the player with it on an adventure into the emotional landscape of a lost soul.

Flip through the pages of an interactive graphic novel and watch it come to life as you play. Search for love and adventures, send text messages, and scroll through strange social media feeds. Play unique mini-games. Enjoy detailed and expressive black and white illustrations and a genre-bending cinematic soundtrack.

Stilstand has an average playtime of 1 hour.

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