Overview
Little Misfortune is a point-and-click adventure game developed and published by Killmonday Games, released on September 18, 2019. The game follows Misfortune Ramirez Hernandez, an imaginative 8-year-old guided through an eerie forest by a mysterious entity called Mr. Voice, all in pursuit of a prize called Eternal Happiness that she wants to give her mother. The tone sits somewhere between a children's storybook and a psychological horror tale, and that tension is exactly what makes it work.
Killmonday Games shares its universe with Fran Bow, the studio's earlier cult horror adventure. Players who know Fran Bow will recognize the aesthetic sensibility immediately: hand-drawn characters with oversized heads, pastel colors bleeding into darkness, and a story that treats trauma and childhood fear as equally real things. Little Misfortune stands on its own, but the connection adds texture for returning fans.
The game is rated Mature 17+ for blood, strong language, drug use, partial nudity, and violence. That rating sits in deliberate contrast to its protagonist's age and naive optimism, which is the point. Misfortune narrates her own adventure with genuine sweetness, oblivious to much of what the player picks up on.
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Gameplay and mechanics
Little Misfortune is built around exploration and player choice rather than traditional puzzle-solving or action. The core loop involves clicking through environments, interacting with objects and characters, and making decisions that shape how events unfold. Killmonday Games describes these choices as having consequences, and the game follows through on that.
Key features include:
- Fully voiced protagonist with original dialogue
- Choice-driven narrative with branching consequences
- Explorable environments filled with hidden interactions
- Original soundtrack by Isak Martinsson
- Original art by Natalia Martinsson
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The voice acting deserves specific mention. Misfortune is performed with real warmth and comic timing, which makes her obliviousness to the darker elements around her land harder than it would with text alone. Hearing her react to meeting the Kraken or visiting a pet cemetery with a shovel gives the game a personality that text alone couldn't carry.
World and setting
The woods Misfortune wanders through function as a kind of twisted fairy tale space, where normal rules don't apply and the line between friendly and dangerous is always blurry. She encounters animals she can pet, including a dog, a wolf, a fish, a kraken, a cat, and a fox. She witnesses things no 8-year-old should. The game never explains away the strangeness, which keeps the atmosphere tight.
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Mr. Voice, the unseen figure guiding Misfortune toward her prize, sits at the center of the game's tension. His relationship with her is the engine of the story, and the game slowly recontextualizes what that relationship means. The writing trusts players to read between the lines while Misfortune remains charmingly unaware.
Visual and audio design
Natalia Martinsson's art style is the game's most immediately distinctive quality. Characters are stylized and slightly off in proportions, rendered in a palette that shifts from warm and soft to cold and threatening depending on what Misfortune is walking into. The visual tone matches the narrative tone beat for beat.
Isak Martinsson's soundtrack reinforces the same duality. Tracks carry a lullaby quality that curdles at the edges, supporting the story's habit of presenting horror through the lens of a child who doesn't fully register it as horror. The audio design across the game is consistent and deliberate, not incidental.
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Little Misfortune runs on PC via Steam, macOS, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, iOS, and Android, with the Xbox version supporting 4K Ultra HD and Xbox One X enhancements. At $19.99, the game holds a 4.65 out of 5 rating from over 1,300 PlayStation Store ratings, which reflects how strongly its specific audience connects with what Killmonday Games built here. This is a short, focused interactive story that commits fully to its tone and delivers something that sticks.