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About This Game

Someone is calling you Devastator... someone needs you...

Twisted Childhood is a roguelike where every world is a different game, and every tale is about to go wrong.

Six tales, six games

• Snow White — Stack blocks at the bottom of the mine and set ore into them. Nine opponents, from the seven dwarves to the Queen... and Snow White herself.
  
• Pinocchio — Line up orbs of the deadly sins and throw them at whoever stands up to you. Each of them has a weak spot: find it, and hit where it hurts.
  
• Cinderella — A dice game. Roll, hold, reroll, and build pairs, three of a kinds, full houses and straights. Load your dice and drink to level up your hands.
  
• Alice — A corrupted game of tarot, played for tricks. Stick seals and dyes onto your cards, awaken the twenty-two arcana and spin the Wheel of Fortune... Watch out for the Cheshire Cat, though.
  
• Peter Pan — A game of chess in Neverland, against the crocodile. A world still under construction: the first character is available so you can give feedback, but it is a "beta".
  
• Sleeping Beauty is a surprise still to come.

Wishes

In every world you hold five Wishes at a time, bought from the shop, and they bend the rules of the game you're playing — over 150 in total. Defeated characters leave behind Corrupted Memories, and some Wishes can only be found by looking hard enough. Cheating is not recommended... it is mandatory.

Your opponent doesn't take it well

Win a round and the character across from you slowly corrupts. They bleed, they melt, they decompose. By the end of the level, they must have lost their life.

Kricket

Someone is coming with you: Kricket! He's rude, he hates everyone, he wants revenge for the sky-high taxes and the unfair ticket he got... He came to see blood, and he knows the tricks of all these games: listen closely to his advice...

And when everything is corrupted

Every world you finish unlocks its Endless Mode: compose your own game — the opponent, the settings, the bonuses — and play without end.

• 31 characters to corrupt, across five worlds
  
• 34 Steam achievements
  
• Accessibility options: a dyslexia-friendly font, symbols for colour-blind players
  
• Two save slots
  
• Fully playable in French and English

What comes next...

A roadmap is planned, and it can be read in the game: balancing, new worlds — Sleeping Beauty is already waiting her turn —, more languages, and replacing the AI-generated images with an artist's work.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

Twisted Childhood uses generative AI in several places, and we would rather set them out plainly than let you find them.

Artwork: the illustrations started as AI-generated images and were then reworked by hand in Photoshop - repainted, recomposed and corrected - before going into the game.

Music: no track comes from an AI music service. Every piece is synthesised by our own tools - writing them was AI-assisted, as the sound design was - then tuned, encoded and mixed by hand.

Sound effects: the sound design was produced with AI assistance and rendered to audio files during development.

English translation: the English text was produced with an AI assistant, then reviewed and rewritten where it mattered - the jokes, the wordplay and the characters' voices were reworked rather than translated word for word.

The game itself is not AI-generated. The design is the developer's own: the five games and their rules, the Wishes and everything they do, the progression and the way the worlds fit together were all devised by hand. So was the writing - every line was written in French by the developer, and only its English translation was assisted.

The game generates nothing while you play and connects to no AI service. Everything you see and hear was finished, edited and checked before release.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

Twisted Childhood retells classic fairy tales as horror, and its imagery is explicit rather than implied.

Violence and gore: every opponent you defeat degrades across a series of hand-painted illustrations - bleeding, melting, coming apart. The game contains mutilated bodies, corpses, blood and detailed depictions of death, and this is present in ordinary play rather than in a single scene.

Language and humour: characters swear, and the humour is adult. It makes jokes about death, murder, madness and addiction.

Drugs and alcohol: one consumable item in the game is an illegal drug, and using it visibly distorts the screen and the sound. Alcohol is present as part of a ball.

The game contains no sexual content and no nudity.