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🐑 Karentika Time | A Psychological Horror Novel
What if the thing that was supposed to make you smile… was the thing that never forgot what it saw?
📖 About the Project
Karentika Time is an Algerian psychological horror story set in the city of Oran, Algeria.
The story begins simply — a man with a dream, a restaurant, a child who loves his father, and an engineer who builds something beautiful from almost nothing.
But nothing stays simple.
At the heart of the story stands BIKEN — an animatronic sheep mascot built to entertain children and bring joy to a small karentika restaurant. He wears a white apron. He turns his head every eleven minutes. He says the same three phrases, day after day.
He does not dream.
But he remembers everything.
🌍 The Setting
Karentika Time is proudly Algerian — set in the streets, neighborhoods, and culture of Oran. The food, the language, the people, the desert — all of it is real. This is not a copy of any Western horror story. This world belongs to us.
🎭 The Characters
The story follows four very different people whose lives collide in one place:
Karim — A father who built his dream with his own hands. A man you will care about before you fear him.
Jabir — His nine-year-old son. A boy who lost his mother young and carries her last gift everywhere he goes.
Rachid — An unemployed engineer who builds something extraordinary. A man who is neither hero nor villain.
Samir — A man in a cowboy hat who appears from nowhere, asks one question, and already knows the answer. He has been looking for something for 21 years.
👻 The Horror
This is not a story about monsters.
This is a story about people — and what they do when no one is watching.
The horror in Karentika Time is psychological. It lives in the silence between words. In a machine that keeps talking after everything has gone wrong. In a child's nightmare where nothing is what it seems. In a father's hand holding his son's — and the question of whether that hand means love or danger.
🐺 WOLFY
A small grey wolf plush toy. A gift from a mother who is no longer here.
He is the smallest thing in the story.
He carries the most weight.
🎮 The Game Concept
Karentika Time is being developed as an experience that combines:
A horror narrative with deep psychological layers
An Algerian cultural identity unlike anything in the genre
Characters you will remember long after the story ends
An animatronic that was built with love — and became something else
📌 Current Status
The story is in active development. The world is being built. The characters are alive.
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The restaurant is waiting.
"Do you know what time it is?"
Karentika Time — A Horror Novel & Game | Oran, Algeria Based on an original concept — inspired by but not affiliated with Five Nights at Freddy's
