Charlotte

Charlotte is a narrative exploration game about the 19th-century writer and suffragist Charlotte Perkins Gilman and her short horror story “The Yellow Wall-paper.” You play a 19th-century woman undergoing the rest cure for hysteria, exploring a mansion and its mysteries in a world that restricts her agency.

Explore the mansion

The game has no goals, but puzzles structure your exploration. You experience the narrative through enacted and environmental storytelling, as you investigate the mansion and read its ephemera. The experience can take from 30 minutes to an hour or two, depending on how long you spend solving puzzles and reading.

Historical material

The game includes material from digital archives and museums, along with texts and ephemera intended to support classroom use. It explores questions of women's agency, voting rights and beliefs about women's intelligence.