Fran Bow

Fran Bow: Descent into Madness

Explore the surreal world of Fran Bow, a thought-provoking adventure game that delves into mental illness, trauma, and self-discovery.

What is Fran Bow?

Fran Bow is an indie point-and-click psychological horror adventure game developed by Killmonday Games and published by Natalia Figueroa. Released for Microsoft Windows, OS X, and Linux in 2015, the game follows Fran, a 10-year-old girl struggling with a mental disorder and disturbance after witnessing the gruesome and mysterious loss of her parents. After the traumatizing event, Fran finds herself institutionalized at a grisly psychiatric hospital called Oswald Asylum.

As Fran undergoes unsettling treatments at the eerie asylum filled with dark secrets, she discovers she has been prescribed a reality-shifting medication that allows her to transport between the frightening asylum and an alternative dimension of the same world filled with repressed memories, clues, and retained knowledge that may help Fran escape. She embarks on an unnerving journey to gather the esoteric remnants required to unravel the uncanny events.

With uniquely grotesque art and imagery, Fran Bow offers an expertly unsettling horror adventure experience driven by mystery-solving puzzle gameplay and psychological terror gradually revealed through Fran's disturbed psyche and ghastly obstacles. Praised for its disturbing yet empathetic portrayal of childhood trauma and mental illness, Fran Bow delivers an impactful story that lingers after the curtains fall on its disturbing ending.

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