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The Brothers Karamazov

The complete Brothers Karamazov as an illustrated visual novel — all 96 chapters, unabridged. The plot never changes; your answers reveal where you stand between faith, intellect, heart, and cynicism.

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About the Game

Dostoevsky's last and greatest novel - all 96 chapters, nothing abridged, nothing rewritten — turned into something you move through rather than merely read. The public-domain Russian original and Constance Garnett's classic English translation, word for word, side by side.

You read the novel; the novel reads you.

— over a thousand pages, all 96 chapters —

A deterministic novel

This isn't a branching story. Dostoevsky's plot is fixed and honored to the letter: Fyodor still dies, Mitya still stands trial, Alyosha still keeps his faith. Your choices never change a single event.

What they change is you. At the novel's most charged moments the page stops and asks you to answer — to take a side, to judge, to forgive or refuse - and every answer shifts your place on the compass of choice:

  • toward Alyosha and faith

  • toward Ivan and the restless intellect

  • toward Mitya and the burning heart

  • toward Rakitin and cold cynicism

  • or the Narrator, who simply keeps to the canon

  • Read the full verbatim text, or a faithful shorter cut — switch at any time.

The plot is settled. What's revealed, chapter by chapter, is who you become while reading it.

Illustrated and atmospheric

  • Painterly, oil-painting-style art for every location and for the great set-pieces - the Grand Inquisitor's auto-da-fé, the starlit night of Cana of Galilee, the courtroom, Mokroe.

  • Character portraits that appear at the margin and turn to face whoever is speaking.

  • Quiet ambient soundscapes and a calm, unhurried, distraction-free reading interface.

Two languages, one book

Read in English or Russian and switch at any moment - the original and the translation, across the entire novel.

Who it's for

For readers who want to live inside Karamazov rather than skim it. For anyone returning to Dostoevsky — or meeting him for the first time and wanting a hand to hold. For a slow, deliberate, beautiful way through one of the greatest novels ever written.

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