House of Glass

The House of Glass is a psychological horror visual novel built around a Taoist concept of the divided self: 魂 (Hún), the ethereal mind-soul that can flee the body, and 魄 (P'o), the corporeal soul that stays behind and feels everything. You enter a house, room by room, that is also an instrument — seven rooms, seven strings of a guqin, each one waking a fragment of what was left behind.

A single thaw meter tracks how much of you thaw the house with each visit, shifting colour, sound, prose rhythm, and even the pronoun used — from the period-correct ungendered 他, through the formal-intimate 您, to 你, and finally 我: I. No name is ever given. Three endings resolve entirely on which pronoun you reach.

Built with AI assistance for code and engineering; prose voice, cultural research, and design vision are the author's own.

Play it here: [storytellermeeka.itch.io/house-of-glass]

"Available in English, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese, with translations proofread by a native speaker."