Fran Bow and Little Misfortune

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First things first Little Misfortune's name is so long compared to Fran, it's kind of hard to remember haha. But anyway, one thing that made me still a huge fan of Fran Bow to this day is the morbid themes that it explores through a child-like lens (art and narrative), and I can say I probably "leveled up" in real life from that experience.

While I'm pretty sure the trailer and screenshots for Little Misfortune aren't showing everything, I hope that the game's theme and direction will be similar to Fran Bow, where it's adorable yet scary without the need for jumpscares, and in the end provide me with something to think about for years haha. Maybe without spoiling too much, we can discuss a little bit about the direction it's heading, and despite sharing the same universe, will it be similar to Fran Bow?

At any rate I came looking for this on steam to wishlist it as soon as I saw the trailer on youtube, so I can't wait!

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Helloo!

I would say that game mechanics wise Little Misfortune and Fran Bow are very different. Where in Fran Bow you would have puzzles that needed to be solved in order to progress in the story, we chose a more streamlined linear way of progressing the story in Little Misfortune, with choices that affect your playthrough instantly and some varying "mini games". The focus is much on the story, characters and the mysterous world surrounding Misfortune, the little lady.

You will get the full experience of Misfortune by playing the game once, but if you want to find all those sweet details then you can play it all over again and see the different outcomes for each choice during your journey.

One other thing is that we have toned down the amount of bloody gore in Misfortune, since this was not needed to tell the story we wanted.

The story of Misfortune is still very personal and mysteriously creepycute as you would expect from us, and we hope you will have many philosophical moments with your mind and even get another level up irl :)

Let me know any more questions and we will try to answer as spoiler-free as possible!