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Featuring a blend of 2D adventure and visual novel, The Mildew Children is a grim tale about a village inhabited only by children who follow savage pagan traditions. A young witch named Kyrphel, along with her sisters, are bound to perform a macabre Ritual in order to save their village.

The Mildew Children is a adventure, story rich and exploration game developed by The Growing Stones and published by Valkyrie Initiative.
Released on April 17th 2024 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 9 languages: English, Russian, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese and Turkish.

It has received 315 reviews of which 295 were positive and 20 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.6 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 9.75€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified The Mildew Children into these genres:

Adventure Story Rich Exploration Detective Surreal Visual Novel Colorful Female Protagonist 2D Choices Matter Psychological Horror Atmospheric Mystery Side Scroller Magic Point & Click Faith Emotional Horror Dark

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS: Windows 10 or newer
  • Processor: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: DirectX 11 compatible video card (integrated or dedicated with min 2GB memory)
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Storage: 4 GB available space
MacOS
  • OS: macOS 11 or newer
  • Processor: Apple Silicon or Intel
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Storage: 4 GB available space
Linux
  • OS: Ubuntu 18.04 or SteamOS 3 (or newer)
  • Processor: x64 architecture only
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: OpenGL 4 Compliant
  • Storage: 4 GB available space

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April 2025
This is a quite decent game that combines folklore and horror! I highly enjoyed the visuals, music and captivating atmosphere, also the setting and world-building are very well done. The story is overall pretty intriguing too, though sometimes it felt a bit underwhelming due to some lack of mystery and build-up (the plot is rather straightforward). I was still very interested in learning about the lore and generally enjoyed the game's whole vibe, it has a pretty unique feel to it. The minigames and timed events often tend to be challenging but in my opinion they greatly contribute to the atmosphere and made me feel like I also experience the character's anxiety lol. However admittedly, I think that the game could profit from including even more horror elements, I definitely enjoyed the horror a lot and would've loved to have more of it (the last chapters do a great job at it though!). In conclusion, I believe that some aspects of the story could get improved in order to become more impactful, considering the excellent potential offered by the concept, but I'm still quite content with the current state of the game!
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Feb. 2025
If you like Paganism, the Occult, and immersive, well-thought out world-building and you enjoy a good read, this game is a no-brainer. The art and atmosphere is beautiful and the writing is stellar. The setting alone explores a very interesting premise, and shows the lengths to which a village may follow superstition into tragedy. Every character is written with a unique voice, there are some instances of lovely humour and just so so much detail put into the lore and belief system present in the village. Til the very end there remains doubt whether the supernatural powers you become familiar with during the playthrough are real or mere superstition. There are mini-games accompanying dialogue that present a nice level of challenge whilst conveying the pain and struggle of the characters. The map-based puzzles are also enjoyable, and nothing takes all that long to accomplish so that you'll generally have an easy time progressing through the visual novel. My few gripes with the game are that: - The English translation is a little awkward, but perfectly readable. Might throw you off at first, but the essence of the writing shines through and is well worth reading to the end. - The game doesn't really communicate what decisions you ought to take in any given situation to achieve a good outcome, which would be fine, only the lore is rather obscure when you get started and the characters have a lot of knowledge you don't, so it feels like you are aimlessly traipsying around in the dark a lot. Whether you get a good ending or not relies on you making cumulative good choices throughout your playthrough, so when answers feel very obscure and arbitrary it's very easy to lock yourself out of a bad ending. That being said, the ending is not that significant to the story. - overall the ending didn't leave me too satisfied. It felt like there were a lot of narrative threads that could have been tied up a little better, or themes that could have come to more fruition, because there are so many beautiful things going on in the story. This project was developed by a very small team and deserves support. It's an incredible ambitious and beautifully written project that explores paganism in a way I've never seen before.
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Jan. 2025
A brilliant game with a bewitching (pun intended) narrative and beautiful artwork! Music is also just wonderful along with the ambience. The main idea is very novel and the performance is also smooth and believable. I like the kind of games and movies that want you to ponder: was it for real or not? I personally love to accept both options at once :) Yes, they used drugs and yes, they talked to spirits! Why exclude one or another? On the other hand, the ending didn't explain so much of the initiated arcs and questions, it's a pity, the story would be mind blowing if told to the end. In hopes of part 2! Отдельно отмечу шикарную лексику и диалоги, очень атмосферно <3
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Nov. 2024
Amazing horror game with interesting story, great characters and sound design. There is no jump scares and the horror is based on unsettling atmosphere which permeates the story from the very beginning and till the end. Majority of the gameplay consists from walking around, talking with people and choosing dialogue options, with periodical QTE (which can be turned off in options at any time). I hope that developers will make second part since they left some loose threads and some story lines are clearly not finished.
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Oct. 2024
+ The music + The visuals + PaGanIsM + you can feel like a real witch (Hogwarts Legacy can hold Mildew Children's beer!) + the atmosphere is horrifying yet tempting you to proceed further
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The Mildew Children is currently priced at 9.75€ on Steam.

The Mildew Children is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 9.75€ on Steam.

The Mildew Children received 295 positive votes out of a total of 315 achieving a rating of 8.59.
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The Mildew Children was developed by The Growing Stones and published by Valkyrie Initiative.

The Mildew Children is playable and fully supported on Windows.

The Mildew Children is playable and fully supported on MacOS.

The Mildew Children is playable and fully supported on Linux.

The Mildew Children is a single-player game.

There are 2 DLCs available for The Mildew Children. Explore additional content available for The Mildew Children on Steam.

The Mildew Children does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

The Mildew Children does not support Steam Remote Play.

The Mildew Children is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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