Brukel

Brukel is a first-person exploration game set in the abandoned farmhouse where Bie Verlinden, the 92-year-old grandmother of Belgian game designer Bob De Schutter, spent her childhood. You explore the house and use a smartphone camera to photograph objects, which prompt Bie to tell stories about her life in her own voice. As the night goes on, ghosts from her past appear and her stories turn darker, revealing traumatic events she experienced as a teenage girl.

Explore the farmhouse

You look for objects in the house and take pictures of them. Correctly identifying and photographing an item triggers a story connected to it. The camera has digital zoom, exposure and focus range; the game has light puzzles and no combat.

Bie's memories

The stories draw on Bie's authentic memories and are spoken in a Flemish dialect with English subtitles. The game takes about an hour to complete.