incubator

You are a PhD student in your final year. You are tired. You are sick. But the experiment must go on.

In this narrative point-and-click game, you work in a high-pressure synthetic biology lab, cultivating "Blastoids" (artificial human embryos) from stem cells. Your task is simple: read the papers, define the protocols, and nurture the cells until they are viable.

But as your health deteriorates and the boundary between "lab work" and "motherhood" blurs, a question arises:

If you provide the labor, the care, and the life... why does the credit belong to the one who merely provided the funding?

Features

• Simulated Burnout: Experience the physical toll of overwork through distorting visuals and muffled audio.
• Academic Satire: A critical look at the hierarchy of higher education and the "God Complex" of supervisors.
• The "Mother" Metaphor: An allegorical story exploring the parallels between the erasure of junior researchers and the erasure of maternal names in a patriarchal society.
• Atmospheric Horror: Sterile labs, cold text, and the heartbeat of something you created but cannot keep.