{"id":11285,"date":"2025-12-04T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=11285"},"modified":"2025-12-06T12:43:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T18:43:34","slug":"top-25-of-25-fatum-betula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=11285","title":{"rendered":"Top 25 of &#8217;25: Fatum Betula"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The first game on the list that didn&#8217;t actually release this year, <strong>Fatum Betula<\/strong> is also the game most likely to be misconstrued as a drug trip. But like, a really good drug trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Release Year: 2020<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Developer: Bryce Bucher<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Platform: all of them<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Top 25 of &#039;25: Fatum Betula\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jQL8eenX64I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Fatum Betula is a very experimental&#8230; adventure game, I suppose you would call it? There&#8217;s a plot in there, something about feeding a tree to determine the fate of the universe? I don&#8217;t know, it&#8217;s not important.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is important are the puzzle and exploration aspects of the game. It&#8217;s all about roaming around the world and trying to see which objects interact with other objects. The world isn&#8217;t particularly big, but it does have a very diverse selection of little areas to explore, and a whole bunch of weird characters to meet along the way. You help some, kill others, and even be horribly disturbed by one or two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The goal of the game is to find various different liquids, which you&#8217;ll then take back to feed your little sapling to see what happens. These liquids include things oil, blood, tomato soup, and immortality. Each one you bring back will give you a different ending, and those endings range from creepy to silly to philosophical to nihilistic. It runs quite a gamut, and while earning them all is a bit of a repetitive task, they&#8217;re definitely worth seeing, and I think that puzzling out how to find all the different liquids is definitely a reward in itself. There&#8217;s also a super-secret ending that will give you a lot of hints on how to find the others, so if you happen to discover that early, it&#8217;ll be either a huge boon or a tidal wave of spoilers, depending on your perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I quite enjoyed my time with Fatum Betula. It took me just shy of three hours to discover all of the endings, and I think that was just the right amount of time to spend in this delightfully odd world. While it didn&#8217;t have a particularly cohesive narrative and several aspects were a little more obfuscated than they really needed to be, the thrill of discovery was more than enough to keep me going. It was a video game experience that felt completely fresh and unique to me, and that&#8217;s something that I&#8217;m finding harder and harder to come by as time goes on, so I really appreciate it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first game on the list that didn&#8217;t actually release this year, Fatum Betula is also the game most likely to be misconstrued as a drug trip. But like, a really good drug trip. Fatum Betula is a very experimental&#8230; adventure game, I suppose you would call it? There&#8217;s a plot in there, something about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=11285\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Top 25 of &#8217;25: Fatum Betula<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11285"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11306,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11285\/revisions\/11306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}