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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.

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

The closest matches for The Mildew Children are Sally Face, Fran Bow and Sanitarium. 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

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2016PCPlayStationXboxNintendo SwitchSteam Deck verified97 % positive2.99 €

Brings what grabs you about The Mildew Children: dread and tension, a strong story as well as a dark atmosphere.

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

Dread and tension

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.

Sanitarium

Dread and tension

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.

The Cat Lady

Dread and tension

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.

Slay the Princess

Dread and tension

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.

Children of Silentown

Dread and tension

A dark point-and-click adventure with a gothic fairy-tale feel: as Lucy, you investigate disappearances in a village bordering a monster-filled forest. Puzzles and an oppressive atmosphere drive the experience.

Strangeland

Dread and tension

A dark point-and-click adventure set in a macabre, surreal carnival that mirrors the protagonist's psyche. Tricky puzzles and an oppressive yet hopeful story drive the experience.

Little Misfortune

Distinctive, stylised art style

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.

Rusty Lake: Roots

Dread and tension

A dark point-and-click puzzle game where you grow the Vanderboom family tree across generations. Bizarre, macabre puzzles and an eerie atmosphere tell the story almost without words.

Tormentum: Dark Sorrow

Dread and tension

A grim point-and-click adventure where you solve puzzles as a prisoner in a nightmarish castle. Its oppressive, surreal world draws heavily on the paintings of H.R. Giger and Zdzisław Beksiński.

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