Californium

Taking the form of a first-person experience of a bad trip, Californium pays homage to sci-fi legend Philip K. Dick by transporting you into the life of a writer searching for his own identity. Explore, solve the riddles and conduct your investigation. Will you find what’s behind the simulacra ?

Californium is a psychedelic, sci-fi and experimental game developed by Darjeeling, Nova Production and ARTE France and published by ARTE France.
Released on February 17th 2016 is available on Windows and MacOS in 3 languages: English, French and German.

It has received 379 reviews of which 265 were positive and 114 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.7 out of 10. 😐

The game is currently priced at 5.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Californium into these genres:

Psychedelic Sci-fi Experimental Colorful Point & Click Surreal Interactive Fiction Exploration Adventure Investigation Indie Casual First-Person Hidden Object Atmospheric Singleplayer Choose Your Own Adventure Puzzle-Platformer Abstract Comic Book

Media & Screenshots

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Requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

OS *: Windows 7 or Higher
Processor: Intel Core i3 2.00 GHz
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: DX9 (shader model 2.0)
Storage: 2 GB available space

MacOS

OS: 10.8
Processor: Intel Core i3
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: ATI Radeon 2400 or higher / NVIDIA 8600M or higher
Storage: 2 GB available space

Reviews

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Dec. 2024

Californium is a good adventure game with a great story, a weird ambiant and some colored deisigns. For his low price, I recommend it!!! ❤️

Dec. 2024

Two times in the span of an hour I paused the game and accidentally restarted the level when I wanted to just unpause. So that's enough of that game, lol.

Dec. 2024

“Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.”

Nov. 2024

i didn't find issues with controls like others have. i enjoyed the experience of finding and solving visual puzzles.

March 2024

A decent homage to PKD. The main attraction are the visuals and the level design; the writing and the ideas are so filled with references to PKD that I was left wanting for more originality. And sadly, the gameplay felt like someone wanted to gamify QA. You walk around trying to get to the exact spot or do the exact sequence of things where something goes wrong. Still, if you like PKD, not an entirely terrible way to spend two or three hours.

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