Geplande uitgavedatum: 2025

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PITCH

«Psychotic Bathtub» deals with Ophelia’s experience with her slightly odd, highly disturbing, and entirely unique psychotic disorder in her bathtub. Interact with the environment through Ophelia’s eyes: Argue with your rubber duck, drink wine, add more bathwater. Each of your interactions may lead to death, great joy, or even worse: your duck drowns, the wine turns into poison, the bathroom is flooded. Will you find a way out of the really scary parts of your mind? Maybe not.

VISION

«Psychotic Bathtub» shows a fictional disorder that follows psychotic symptoms. This game is not a serious game, but is intended to destigmatize mental health disorders and to make them accessible. 50% of it’s profit will be donated to mental health research.

GAMEPLAY

The core of «Psychotic Bathtub’s» gameplay is about making decisions with meaningful consequences. There is no reset button available to edit decisions. Depending on the path, new options, different perspectives and answers to possibly unanswered questions emerge. Each decision leads the player towards different endings.

«Psychotic Bathtub’s» gameplay relies on simple controls and is therefore barrier-free on a movement level. The multilinear narrative provides replay value and gives the player a sense of selfefficacy.

«Psychotic Bathtub» is controlled exclusively by mouse. A mouse-over function opens up new interactive text blocks or animations. By left-clicking, an interaction is triggered, consequently a decision is made and therefore the course of the story determined.

Beschrijving inhoud voor volwassenen

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Psychotic Bathtub shows a fictional mental health disorder and addresses themes like death, suicide, self-destruction, intrusive thoughts, guilt and escapism.

Your well-being is important to us. If these themes may trigger you or make you feel unwell: skip Psychotic Bathtub for today. Take care and stay sane.