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2024PCPlayStationXboxNintendo SwitchSteam Deck verified92 % positive9.75 €

A grim point-and-click adventure with visual novel elements set in a village populated only by children who follow pagan customs. As a young witch, you and your sisters prepare a macabre ritual to save the village.

  • Dark, serious atmosphere
  • Strong, story-driven narrative
  • Distinctive, stylised art style
  • Fantasy setting

The closest matches for The Mildew Children are Sally Face, Fran Bow and Detention. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes The Mildew Children special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Sally Face

96 %Match

2016PCPlayStationXboxNintendo SwitchSteam Deck verified97 % positive2.99 €

  • Strong, story-driven narrative
  • Dark, serious atmosphere
  • Distinctive, stylised art style

An episodic point-and-click adventure about a boy with a prosthetic face who investigates a murder series and supernatural secrets in a gloomy apartment building. Its distinctive comic-like low-poly look, 90s atmosphere and emotional story set it apart.

Fran Bow

Dark, serious atmosphere

A dark point-and-click adventure in which you play a young girl with a mental illness who shifts between a brutal reality and a disturbing alternate world. Nightmarish hand-drawn art and inventory puzzles carry a bleak, emotional story.

Detention

Dark, serious atmosphere

An atmospheric 2D horror adventure set in 1960s martial-law Taiwan, where you sneak through a haunted school and solve puzzles as a student. It blends political repression with Taiwanese folk religion and myth for a deeply unsettling story.

Slay the Princess

Strong, story-driven narrative

A psychological horror visual novel where you are sent to slay a princess in a cabin while a cast of voices in your head keeps commenting. Every choice sends the story spiraling into new branches, and the hand-penciled art and superb voice acting make each loop eerie and surprising.

The Cat Lady

Dark, serious atmosphere

A dark psychological horror adventure about a lonely, suicidal woman drawn into a fight against grotesque serial killers. With its gritty collage-like look, strong voice acting and heavy themes of depression and loss, it is an intense and emotional experience.

Little Misfortune

Dark, serious atmosphere

A short, dark story adventure about a little girl chasing a terrible secret through a colorful fairy-tale world of oddball characters. The contrast between cute visuals, black humor and heavy themes is what makes it memorable.

Sanitarium

Dark, serious atmosphere

A grim point-and-click adventure where an amnesiac man wakes in a disturbing asylum. Surreal chapters in which you step into different roles and a deeply unsettling atmosphere make it a classic of psychological horror.

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