October 2016; 11-year old Seth Gauthier has been in and out of five different foster care homes, all of which he's left with people dead, injured or mad. Lucas Hark, a social worker in-training, worries for the life of Seth's new foster caretaker, a young woman named Helena Catalano. However, there is more than meets the eye with Helena, a known expert at handling troubled kids, and something much more powerful than either he or Seth can predict.

A black comedy linear VN lampooning the evil demon kid trope in horror. 15800 words, with multiple CGs.


 content warning for swearing/hateful language, child abuse, animal endangerment, very mild jumpscares, mild(?) scopophobia (cartoonier eyes), blood, bugs (flies/maggots), vomiting .

Updated 23 days ago
StatusReleased
PlatformsHTML5, Windows, macOS, Linux
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Authorreteryisk
GenreVisual Novel
Made withRen'Py
Tags2D, Anime, Black and White, Comedy, Creepy, Horror, Kinetic Novel

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I really enjoyed this story!

FYI- Not sure if it was a problem with my computer specifically, but I couldn't get the pc download version to work. I tried through the itch desktop app and downloading through my chrome browser but it won't launch the .exe file in either download. I ended up playing the browser version and it worked fine.

YEAH my friends took a look and the PC version had a corruption problem, likely stemming from the upload bottlenecking my wifi at the time I was putting it up. I just put up a new version with a couple of teeny fixes that should hopefully work.

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I just tried installing through the app and the game launches without any problem now.