The game was part-funded through an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign, raising $28,295 in August 2013. The plot of the game includes autobiographical elements from Natalia's life, and she described the process of creating the game as therapeutic. Throughout the game, Fran and other characters grapple with psychological trauma, survive the abuse of parents and doctors, and learn what it means to live amongst many types of beings and spirits.įran Bow was developed by Swedish studio Killmonday Games, composed of Natalia Martinsson ( née Figueroa) and Isak Martinsson. Midnight, Itward, and Palontras fly away with Fran resolving to be happy. After Oswald shoots her, Itward and Palontras come to save Fran, killing Grace and Oswald. Oswald, who experimented on Grace and Fran's mother, had Remor possess Fran to murder her parents believing Fran's suffering is key to his experiment. She is trapped in a hell-like dimension, ruled by Remor's mother, Mabuka. After visiting Fran's parents' grave, Remor, a demonic creature that has pursued Fran throughout the game, captures them. Fran awakens near her home where she is taken away by Dr. The flying machine crashes, however, and Fran Bow and Itward are separated. Itward tries to take Fran back home in his flying machine. She discovers that it was Itward who had helped her in her search for Mr. After departing Ithersta, Fran meets Itward, a giant skeletal creature. There she meets Palontras who helps her return home. She awakens to discover that she has been transformed into a tree in a brighter world called Ithersta, a land where vegetables, insects, pine cones, and roots live in harmony. Fran eventually escapes and attempts to cross a bridge of roots, which frays and collapses. Midnight trapped together in a haunted house that belongs to conjoined twins named Clara and Mia Buhalmet. Driven to escape her imprisonment, find her cat, and return home, Fran escapes and flees into a nocturnal forest in which she encounters ghostly nature spirits.

The pills cause vivid hallucinations of a phantasmagoric parallel universe, filling Oswald Asylum with smears of blood, mysterious messages, grisly torture, human subject research in psychiatry and neurology, and otherworldly shadow beings. Marcel Deern, Fran is administered pills. She is then found alone in the woods and admitted to Oswald Asylum, separating Fran from her black cat and only friend, Mr.

Set in 1944, the game tells the story of Fran, a ten-year-old girl struggling with mental illness after witnessing the murder of her parents. Additionally, a small portion of Fran Bow consists of minigames situated within the broader narrative that present more complex logical challenges.

In one scene, the player controls the protagonist's cat. Similar to other adventure games, the gameplay involves seeking various objects in the game world in order to combine and use them to solve puzzles, and speaking with non-player characters to learn more about the world and how to progress. In 2023, it was ported to the Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4. The game was released in 2015 for PC and in 2016 for mobile. Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux, Android, iOS, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4įran Bow is a graphic adventure game with psychological horror elements developed and produced by Killmonday Games, a Swedish indie game studio.

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