Plants Hunter

Plants Hunter is a narrative puzzle game that examines what might be called an anti-anti-anthropocentric position. It questions the contradiction in claiming to reject human exceptionalism by extending sympathy and moral status to animals while continuing to treat plants as expendable.

In this world, the animal-protection movement has become a new moral high ground and escalated to an extreme. The mutation of plants emerges as a counterattack against this order. Entering the Plants Hunter's domain, the player interrogates monsters and searches for the truth. Along the way, good and evil become unstable, revealing how humans use changing ideological positions to justify their own actions.

The project began with a suspicion toward the benevolent gesture of ‘protecting nature.’ Childhood lessons about releasing captive animals, preserving life, and revering ‘Mother Nature’ led me to ask whether seemingly gentle actions can still contain a selective form of empathy.

Real-world animal-release practices deepened this question. Animals returned to the wild in the name of compassion can sometimes cause biological invasions, genetic contamination, or ecological damage. This made me realise that ‘protecting life’ is not always an inherently correct act; it can also become a self-affirming moral projection.

The visual world combines domestic spaces, plant mutations, animal imagery, and bodily interfaces. The game uses interrogation and environmental clues to keep every moral position unstable rather than resolving the conflict into a simple answer.

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