some films that came to mind while playing this: spring, summer, fall, winter... and spring (temple of isolation and cycles), little shop of horrors (elder god audrey 2 creation myth), flight of the navigator (quarantine, unidentified floating object), vivarium (suburban alienation)...

there's more, of course, and i'm not suggesting that any of these were necessarily intentional references; rather, it's more likely these are things i'm inferring because the game, short and small as it is, is littered with these little archetypal bits of things both mythical and mundane. i think it's a mistake to take fatum betula as a simple mess of dream logic. it has things to say, and it's up to you to do the experimenting required to discover what these things are. in the end, whichever ending(s) you get, you'll most likely come away with something to think about for a while. the kind of person you want to be, perhaps.