Dionysus in Chains is a film game hybrid that interrogates how systems of order absorb and repackage rebellion and liberation through architectural, cinematic, and ludic forms. Drawing on Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy and its polarity of the Apollonian and Dionysian, it examines how visions of order and ecstasy are refigured under late modernity, where, as Bauman’s Liquid Modernity and Fisher’s Capitalist Realism argue, even acts of resistance are commodified and folded back into systemic control. The narrative follows a white collar protagonist who moves from the rationalised Apollonian city toward a Dionysian festival, guided through intoxication mechanics, spatial distortions, and ritualised acts of surrender. A transitional level, referencing Carlos Scarpa and Tadao Ando’s architecture, stages psychoactive consumption as both mechanic and metaphor. What appears as liberation ultimately proves another form of control. The project thus questions whether genuine escape is possible or whether all gestures of transgression are inevitably absorbed, positioning itself as both creative practice and critical reflection on contemporary cultural conditions.