The Berlin Apartment

The Berlin Apartment

Released Nov 2025

One apartment, many stories: Witness turning points in the lives of the inhabitants of an apartment in Berlin over the course of a whole century.

92% positive · 471 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
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Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence

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Evaluation

The Berlin Apartment launched on November 17, 2025 as a complete, self-contained narrative adventure game. The launch post describes a finished product — four distinct story episodes spanning different eras, all fully voiced in English and German — the result of four and a half years of development by the small team at Blue Backpack. Since launch, the developer has been actively maintaining the game with bug fixes and quality-of-life improvements: five hotfix patches in the first two weeks post-launch, a first major patch on November 20, 2025 adding accessibility features and rumble support, and a second accessibility-focused patch on December 15, 2025. The most recent update, a hotfix on April 14, 2026, resolved a bug related to replaying completed episodes. There is no DLC listed on the store, no season pass, no roadmap for additional content, and no developer statements indicating further story episodes or expansions are planned. The game's structure — a fixed set of four historical episodes explored through renovation — reads as a complete narrative package. All post-launch activity has been maintenance and polish rather than content additions. The game launched as a finished product and all evidence points to it remaining so.
Evidence
Launch post announces the game is out with 4 story episodes, fully voiced in two languages, described as the completed fruit of 4.5 years of development
news post · Nov 17, 2025 source content shipped
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Store description presents a self-contained narrative structure — Dilara and her father exploring a single apartment across four historical eras — with no mention of future episodes, DLC, or ongoing content
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Media

Details

Developer
Publisher
Blue Backpack
Achievements
29
Platform
Windows
Controller
full support
Steam Deck
Verified
Players
Single-player

About this game

Dilara joins her father Malik, a handyman tasked with refurbishing an old apartment in the city of Berlin, Germany. In the course of their extensive renovation work, Dilara digs deeper and deeper into the history of the apartment. Relics from past times turn out to be silent witnesses and former companions of the apartment's previous inhabitants. With each new find, Malik tells his daughter the story behind this trace of a past adventure – with its own protagonists, its own genre, and its own atmosphere, yet always set within the same four walls.


  • Treasure hunt: Discover relics and traces that reveal the history of an apartment and its former inhabitants.

  • Each episode is unique: Delve into moving short stories with unique gameplay twists for each new story.

  • Beautiful and refreshing artstyle: Explore detailed 3D environments in a colorful comic-book aesthetic.

  • A changing Berlin: Experience the unique historic backdrop of a colorful city and its turbulent past.

Last evaluated Jun 21, 2026
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