The Berlin Apartment review – room with multiple views

A first person narrative game set across 100 years of German history is one of the least action-packed games of the year but features some of the best storytelling.

In 1989 Richard McGuire published a comic strip called Here, which caused a bit of a sensation. It depicted a single room in America, in time periods that varied from billions of years BC to 2033 AD, dwelling on the life of one character who lived there between the 1950s and the end of the 2020s. It was later turned into a far more fleshed out graphic novel and a lifelessly dull Robert Zemeckis film, but its theme remains an inspiration.

The Berlin Apartment uses a similar premise. Its stories occur in the rooms of a flat over the course of a century, so a considerably more modest span than Here, but one that takes in some in