The Wanderer: Frankenstein’s Creature (2019)
You play the creature, waking with no memory and learning the world one encounter at a time.
The creature’s chapters are about learning what people are. Make that the game, and let the player do the learning.
You want to be the creature for a few quiet hours, learning the world one meeting at a time.
What it keeps and what it changes
Keeps: the creature’s side of the novel: a new mind in a made body, finding out about good and evil.
Changes: the form, to a painted narrative game with no combat.
Whose story is it?
the creature’s, and yours.
How much time does it ask?
A narrative game for PC, Nintendo Switch and phones.
La Belle Games and ARTE France; released on Steam on 30 October 2019.
Where to find it
Other ways to get it: Nintendo Switch — Nintendo eShop · Boxed copy — Amazon
More Frankensteins: Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Penguin Classics) · Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Oxford World’s Classics) · The Norton Critical Edition, third edition