What Fatum Betula is
Fatum Betula is a first-person exploration game built around one idea: a magical birch tree decides the future, and you decide what it eats. You wander a world that has no past, look for things to feed the plant, water it, and watch what kind of fate comes out. There are 10 unique endings and plenty of secrets tucked into the map, so one run rarely shows you everything. The tone is surreal and unsettling rather than action-driven — the game is tagged as walking simulator, puzzle and psychological horror, and it leans on atmosphere instead of combat or timers.
Playing it together
The game is listed as singleplayer, but it supports Remote Play Together, which means one person owns it and friends can join their session through Steam's streaming. That makes it a good pick for a Discord call: one friend drives while the rest watch the world unfold, spot things on screen, and argue about what to feed the birch next. Since the whole experience is about choosing a fate and living with it, having a group weigh in on each decision turns a short solo playthrough into a shared guessing game about which of the 10 endings you are heading toward.
Before you start
Expect a deliberately old-school look. Fatum Betula runs at 320x240 and reproduces the flaws of early hardware — wobbling vertices and misaligned textures are part of the style, not a bug. It is short, casual and easy to pick up, with light puzzle elements rather than demanding mechanics, so the challenge comes from figuring out what each location wants from you. The world is open to explore at your own pace, and the characters you meet are strange enough that talking to them is half the point. Go in curious, take your time reading the places you find, and treat the first ending as a starting point rather than the whole game.