Biophobia

Biophobia is an experimental art game about trauma, death and agency, combining dissection and gardening mechanics. You interact with the body as a site of decay and creation. The game has no text or dialogue; it tells its story through symbolic interaction, visuals and atmospheric sound.

Dissection and gardening

You dissect and nurture a body, then choose from a variety of seeds to shape your own floral expression. The game presents the human form in unsettling but compassionate ways, without gore, using surreal visuals and symbolic design. It is designed to take about 20 minutes to complete.

Artistic influences

Biophobia draws on the character Ophelia from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Clemente Susini’s wax figure Anatomical Venus, and Fuyuko Matsui’s painting Keeping Up the Pureness. It reimagines historical depictions of women’s bodies through a modern feminist lens.