Kvartirant

Kvartirant is a branching visual novel about eighteen-year-old Maxim Karasev, who leaves his parents’ home and rents a modest apartment in an old, run-down city neighborhood. Hoping for independence, quiet and control over his life, he soon finds that his new home holds a dark secret. Your choices shape the story as Maxim meets someone new and uncovers the past.

A hostile welcome

On his way to the nearest grocery store, Maxim runs into Anatoly, known as Tolik, a former classmate with whom he has had a difficult, often hostile relationship since high school. Now grown and looking like a local hooligan, Tolik claims the neighborhood is under his “protection” and demands money for a “roof,” hinting that refusing could bring trouble. The encounter leaves Maxim uneasy.

The apartment’s secrets

At night, strange rustles and creaks disturb Maxim’s sleep, and icy drafts move through the apartment despite the closed windows. The old photographs left by the previous tenants seem to watch him, and he feels someone nearby even when he knows he is alone. As these unsettling events weigh on him, Maxim investigates the apartment’s past and faces both the unexplained and his own past.