Stilstand

Niila

About this game

“Stilstand just left me speechless” - Blue Moon Game

"Philosophical, profound and uniquely staged" - PC Games

“It's a revelation” - Les inrocks

“I found myself moved to laughter and sadness throughout” - Samantha Maybe/The Convention Collective

“It's hard not to be charmed while wallowing in despair” - 148Apps.com

Stilstand is an award-winning interactive comic by artist Ida Hartmann and game studio Niila Games. It is a deeply personal journey into the mind of a young woman as she tries to stay afloat in Copenhagen during a summer riddled with hopelessness. Amid the desire for isolation there’s still a hope that one day, things will change. Maybe the shadow monster in her apartment can help her?

Stilstand is a personal and hand-drawn tale about the high expectations and the fragile limbo of feeling stuck in life. It is a whimsical and absurd portrayal of anxiety, loneliness, and despair, and brings the player with it on an adventure into the emotional landscape of a lost soul. Navigate the girl through a world of grotesque scenarios and richly detailed black and white illustrations. Play original mini-games, scroll fictive social media feeds and send bewildered text messages.

Stilstand has an average playtime of 1 hour.

Ratings and reviews

Interesting game, but the automatic save function only saves something like every five minutes so if I only play 4 minutes at a time I am never progressing.

Touching but very short. Kinda like an interactive comic.

I appreciate it from an artistic perspective, but as a person with depression, this just made me more depressed, so I can't really recommend it if you're in a similar boat.

What's new

New! Japanese translation added!