Belladonna
Developer Neckbolt
Belladonna is a gothic adventure game, twisted and dark. Take the role of a corpse girl rising from the dead in an abandoned laboratory, and unravel the mysteries concerning your own death and reanimation. From the Steam store page
270 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Nov 3, 2026 · last updated Nov 4, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
120 positive · 74 negative
95% range 55–68%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 120 | 74 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 7 | 1 | 57 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 4 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
What players are saying
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 193 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mostly Positive (566 of 793 positive).
Players describe Belladonna as a short, gothic point-and-click adventure inspired by Frankenstein. [1][2][3] Many praise the art and atmosphere but find the puzzles too simple and the game too brief. [4][5][6] Some reviewers feel the story is incomplete and the voice acting is lacking. [7][8][9]
- [8]
I love Point-and-Click games with dark themes and beautiful artwork. Belladonna has that but fails in many other aspects. The story is about a corpse girl rising from the dead. She doesn't know who she is or how she ended up in a laboratory. With the aid of the scattered journal pages belonging to doctor Wolfram von Trauerschloss and his wife, Belladonna, she starts to piece the story and events together. The ending …
- [15]
Ah, Belladonna... Definitely not a bad game, but throughout the whole playtime felt like a demo of a larger, more complex game and story. You basically pick up journal pages from various people and that's the only way for you to experience the story. If you are the skip-all-reading type of player, you will not understand a thing. It is about an hour long (reading included) with very basic and typical point-and-click …
- [1]
Belladonna is a short gothic beauty: twisted and dark. The puzzles are easy and few and far between. Instead, the game is focused on storytelling, narrative, and visual design. There are a few cutscenes that play out nicely, and the art throughout is simply striking. In a way, Belladonna is a feminist and gothic take of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. With a twist at the end. It is a visually striking title, with …
- [5]
Gothic horror Pn'C, very simple, very short, completed in 1 hour, including the pixel hunting (no hot spot key) and the backtracking (no fast walk possible.) It's so basic that it has no options menu whatsoever, and no save menu (you'll have to trust the thing if you need a break.) The story doesn't make much sense, but it has its charm, it's fully voiced, and the art is nice. Recommended simply because it does work …
- [2]
Belladonna is a a short Point & Click Adventure game though it's almost more like an interactive storybook. The story is interesting but feels incomplete. Overall, it was an okay game. Not a bad way to spend 1-2 hours but also, nothing overly thrilling. It's a Gothic horror style story based largely on Mary Shelly's 'Frankenstein'. It does spend a good deal of it's time (keep in mind it's pretty short) on playing …
Summarised from 34 of the 252 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 10, 2026. How summaries are made
61% of the 193 Steam reviewers we collected recommend Belladonna. The complaint that keeps coming up: very short, often under an hour. Deal-breaker or nitpick?
Reactions
60 of 270 · most liked firsti hate that mature animation im the US all looks like that all the time like, not against adult animated comedy completely but thats all we have for mature audiences. it is holding the medium of animation back the US animated cultural output could never make a Mind Game or Belladonna of Sadness
neutral · AI labelView post →I love Point-and-Click games with dark themes and beautiful artwork. Belladonna has that but fails in many other aspects. The story is about a corpse girl rising from the dead. She doesn't know who she is or how she ended up in a laboratory. With the aid of the scattered journal pages belonging to doctor Wolfram von Trauerschloss and his wife, Belladonna, she starts to piece the story and events together. The ending is weak and sudden, in my opinion.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →#nsfw #art #oldArt Original debut: May 4, 2020 Belladonna my beloved (I have not played the game) ...Ovopack did design her for the remake so technically all Belladonna lewds are Ovopack fanart
neutral · AI labelView post →Belladonna - "After the season finale" outfit --- I like the idea of naming the alt outfits like character skins in a game! This would be her outfit after Parker helping them escape :3c #oc #ocart #ocsky #characterdesign
neutral · AI labelView post →One of my friends wanted to pass around a bunch of feral art in a little zine at a con and asked me to draw someone from a cartoon or game. So i decided to draw Annabelle and Belladonna from all dogs go to heaven. #feralnsfw
neutral · AI labelView post →[Discussion] The 20 Scariest Horror Anime of All Time. - *Akira* - *Belladonna of Sadness* - *Demon City Shinjuku* - *The End of Evangelion* - *Lily C.A.T.* - *Paprika* - *Perfect Blue* - *Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust* - *Wicked City* - *Attack on Titan* - *Berserk* - *Death Note* - *Devilman Crybaby* - *Elfen Lied* - *Hellsing Ultimate* - *Higurashi* - *Mononoke* - *Madoka Magica* - *Serial Experiments Lain* - *X*
neutral · AI labelView post →BottomLine at the Top: More of an "artistic adventure" than a real P&C game but still enjoyable. For the P&C aficionado it's worth checking out but paying full price feels steep for what it is. ------------------------------------- Pros ------------------------------------- -I really like the overall feel of this title. It’s a weird combination of gothic horror but with a sweet and innocent protagonist. It reminds me of a Tim Burton movie. -Strange commentary and monologue from the main…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Request for BomberDragon featuring the character Belladonna from the video game Trials of Mana. Uh oh, looks like you have been defeated and she has made you her pet for her vile desires! I could have done a better job on the jewelry rather than using a random brush
neutral · AI labelView post →Threw together a thing of Iana Belladonna, a character belonging to @aetherbreeze.bsky.social. He's from their text adventure game, "Shepherd's Flock". I thought he was a model feline.
neutral · AI labelView post →i thought i saw boobs but it's just not need to know game only for cards
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Man, fanfic updates seem a little thin on the ground these days. Gonna have to up my game, or something. I guess it’s a good thing I’ve got another update pending for Belladonna…
neutral · AI labelView post →Meet Belladonna, Office Siren and Vibes Manager at P.E.A.C.E! Ready to clock in on Sept 25th? Check out our game trailer on Steam!: 👉 https//store.steam... #indiehorror #gamedev #visualnovel #anime #indiegame
neutral · AI labelView post →Watch: Anthrax's Joey Belladonna Sings the National Anthem in Seahawks Versus Chicago Bears Game metalinjection.net/news/watch-a...
neutral · AI labelView post →Phantom 1925 on the day of it's 100th Anniversary, 1st one is"The Tender Game" from 1958. Planned "Belladonna of Sadness" to get all three erotic Mushi Production anime movies in one week, but the latter half of the week had other plans. #lastfourwatched #letterboxdfriday #letterboxd #filmsky 📽️🍿
neutral · AI labelView post →Stéphane Créty art from ***Hannibal Meriadec and the Tears of Odin***, with a quickie-review:. This is a fun series I've been reading recently. A pirate captain's lady love was tortured and killed physically, but due to sorcerous machinations, her spirit is able to hang on... barely. Hannibal must soon find a fabled artifact in order to fully restore her, else she's a goner. Unfortunately, some dangerous, undead witches are also after the treasure, and are quite content with wiping our…
neutral · AI labelView post →Riesz, Hawkeye, Belladonna, and Crimson Wizard from Trials of Mana (Remake) by artist Haccan. More art from the game: creativeuncut.com/art_trials-o...
neutral · AI labelView post →The story, artwork, music, and atmosphere are all commendable. However, there appears to be something lacking and somewhat sloppy. It could have been better, which is unfortunate.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Your new fave is trans! Our upcoming game 𝘚𝘱𝘰𝘰𝘯 𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘤𝘩 stars a trans witch named Belladonna as it's main character. Happy trans day of visibility from Team Tofana and thank you to our artist @starfishness for this graphic! #transdayofvisibility #gamedevelopment #indiegamedev #characterdesign
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm a game designer, but one of the best known super groups in the world of my Action-Heroes #RPG is lead by a married lesbian couple. They are Belladonna and Quirk, and they co-lead the team known as the Action-Heroes within the game. They received their abilities from being descendants of aliens.
neutral · AI labelView post →It's time! We're going to most likely finishing Thomas is alone today. If it's not too long, then I'll be starting the promethium horror point and click game: Belladonna. Let's have some fun! #ENVTuber #VTuber www.twitch.tv/orionstarbeard
neutral · AI labelView post →Who do you wanna see the most from #TheSims2 ? (Belladonna Cove / Desiderata Valley / Riverblossom Hills or sub-neighborhoods only. i've already recreated 3 base game townies)
neutral · AI labelView post →Mini-reviews: *Belladonna, The Property, Paul has a Summer Job, Last Days of an Immortal*, and *Set to Sea*.. (click the links for samples) [***Belladonna***](https://www.google.com/search?q=belladonna+alary&%3Btbm=isch) (Ange & Alary, 2009) Set in France, in the middle of the reign of Louis XIV (the celebrated "Sun King"), this is a superb, cinematic story of political intrigue, factional infighting, assassination, and the struggle for an orphan to piece together her backstory while on…
neutral · AI labelView post →You had to kill the cat...
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Belladonna is a short gothic beauty: twisted and dark. The puzzles are easy and few and far between. Instead, the game is focused on storytelling, narrative, and visual design. There are a few cutscenes that play out nicely, and the art throughout is simply striking. In a way, Belladonna is a feminist and gothic take of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. With a twist at the end. It is a visually striking title, with healthy detail in each level and color that seems to jump out from the screen. You…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →EST Completion Time (1 Playthrough): 75 minutes Achievements Available: 0 (N/A) Trading Cards Available: 13/set ⚠️ TRIGGER WARNING: Belladonna contains a brief scene involving ANIMAL VIOLENCE. Belladonna is a short, Gothic point-and-click adventure game about love, power, betrayal, and mortality. An obvious nod to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, you awake as a bio-mechanical corpse in search of answers to explain your unholy existence. Who are you? What happened to you? As you journey through an…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Solatorobo has some interesting characters! Belladonna from Trials of Mana- I've only ever really played the first Secret of Mana game. Oh, Ms. Fortune from Skullgirls! (wow lots of cats here...)
neutral · AI labelView post →Anyone fancy a game of Bridge (Khazad-dûm)? Finally got hold of pack of @ralphbakshi.bsky.social Lord of The Rings playing cards. Interestingly Lobelia & Belladonna are in there. Not sure Treebeard is much of a joker though. Hm, hoom #LOTR #Tolkien
neutral · AI labelView post →Belladonna is a VERY short Indie itch/io game. A nice little atmospheric attempt at a game. Mostly reading notes which turns the gameplay into somewhat of a visual novel. The "show don't tell" rule flies out the window with this one.. The point & click gameplay is baby level easy, it is downright primitive. You leave the lab, walk around a few rooms and go back to the lab. That's it, that's the whole game.. - The story is greatly inspired by Mary Shelley's famous "Frankenstein" book, it is…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I am 32 years old. My ex-wife and I have a daughter together, and we adopted our son together. Both are now 4 years old. When we were going through our separation, I felt lost and unhappy. I was self-destructive. One day, I was so angry with everything spiraling out of control that I punched a concrete wall in a moment of overwhelming emotion. This resulted in breaking my fifth metacarpal in my right hand—the hand I worked with, played games with, and used to carry my children to bed—the hand…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Belladonna is a a short Point & Click Adventure game though it's almost more like an interactive storybook. The story is interesting but feels incomplete. Overall, it was an okay game. Not a bad way to spend 1-2 hours but also, nothing overly thrilling. It's a Gothic horror style story based largely on Mary Shelly's 'Frankenstein'. It does spend a good deal of it's time (keep in mind it's pretty short) on playing with the themes of loss, grief, death, life, having a soul, good and evil.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Belladonna by Adalyn Grace - An ornate game of gothic “who dun it” clue with Death as the supportive sidekick and love interest. The FMC is a quirky oddball rumored to be cursed and the cause of multiple deaths. Paranormal romance with some fantasy elements. Can be read as a standalone.
neutral · AI labelView post →On this day 8 years ago, BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle's release date was originally revealed during ASW FGA 2017, set for distribution on May 31, 2018. Additionally, Blake Belladonna alongside 19 other characters were announced as post-launch content for the game. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn4t...
neutral · AI labelView post →On this day 7 years ago, BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle's release date was originally revealed, set for distribution on May 31, 2018. Additionally, it was also announced that Blake Belladonna alongside 20 other characters were joining the game as DLC content. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn4t...
neutral · AI labelView post →Favorite Animated Features Phantom Boy The Sword In The Stone Mind Game L’Illusioniste Ghost In The Shell Belladonna of Sadness Ruben Brandt, Collector Lu over The Wall Only Yesterday Earthsea Lupin the Third: The First
neutral · AI labelView post →Point and click that is messed up. Someone was probably smoking too much during this one.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Finally got the right inspiration to get into Game Dev... Long journey starting but as far as music go, already cooking (if you did not, listen to Belladonna OST 😌)
neutral · AI labelView post →Writing the characters and setting material for my Action-Heroes #TTRPG were an important part of my becoming comfortable with who I am to come out as a nonbinary person. The game is stuff with #queer characters from the nonbinary iconic character of The Hood, to "power couple" Belladonna and Quirk.
neutral · AI labelView post →Hey hey what if uhm uh if Belladonna was like. A boss in atlyss and she gets a special game over screen for no particular reason haha (Also the fuckign pose she hits in the last one is so,..you get it)
neutral · AI labelView post →“Swiss Woman Doctor: You killed him! Herbert West: No, I did not. I gave him life.” ~Stuart Gordon's Re-Animator If I had to pick one favorite genre, it would be old-school point-and-click adventures. On the other hand, reviewing them can be painfully dull. After all, what is there to say? You point, you click—that’s the whole experience. Sure, a good story can sometimes make up for weak puzzles, but since "good" is subjective, most mediocre adventures leave little worth discussing. This time,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I do love a good Point&Click adventure from time to time but this is not one of those. The game may look good, story is OK and I could live with the bad voice acting but Belladonna is simply too short (less than 30 min.) and only contains super easy puzzles.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →#TheMetalDogArticleList #louder Bella Donna by Stevie Nicks: Album Of The Week Club review "Bella Donna had the formula for success: a singer from huge band, a top-notch producer, and a who's who of musicians" https://www.loudersound.com/reviews/stevie-nicks-bella-donna #StevieNicks #BellaDonna #music #review
neutral · AI labelView post →Honestly I disliked this adventure game. Short and easy point and click. Way too much of the story is written in boring self explanatory long letters. The story is not original and uninteresting...
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not bad, but it has 13 trading cards.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not really bad, but really short and not too complex. The only challenge in the puzzles is if you don't see the necessary objects. Seems almost like a demo or an excersize of somone intent on making a larger game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ah, Belladonna... Definitely not a bad game, but throughout the whole playtime felt like a demo of a larger, more complex game and story. You basically pick up journal pages from various people and that's the only way for you to experience the story. If you are the skip-all-reading type of player, you will not understand a thing. It is about an hour long (reading included) with very basic and typical point-and-click item interactions. It is decently enough fully voice acted, with great…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Joey Belladonna, a metal singer (Anthrax) performed the National Anthem at the Seahawks game He was significantly bagged for his performance, and for being chosen Google it. He KILLED it Good for the Seahawks to stick their necks out and the NFL for signing off on it Different kind of bigotry
neutral · AI labelView post →There needs to be a warning popup in this game when you select the Belladonna Bodice like "are you sure you want to do this to yourself, your partner, and your therapist"
neutral · AI labelView post →Anybody remember the game BattleToads? Welp, I'd finally gotten an opportunity to draw an OC of the video game. Meet Bella (After the toxic Belladonna), she's poison tree dart frog, and a fighter with the other two team members (I'll be working on them soon). they called themselves the Frugz. Enjoy!
neutral · AI labelView post →I do take my deceased cat Prince with me in each game!!! I just like making new hunters each game. I'm debating bringing my GenUlt hunter, Belladonna, back, or doing my first self-insert for Wilds when I play it.
neutral · AI labelView post →Stream Ended! Thanks to everyone who joined in to chat and watch me return to this old game! We were two stages away from finishing Thomas, and managed to get through all of Belladonna! We kept the party rolling by sending the raid onto @demenciadimension.bsky.social who is playing Zombie Island 2
positive · AI labelView post →Past: thief. I started thieving at a very young age; I was pretty good at it and most important I liked it. I also started my own activity and soon I started receiving a lot of requests. My first rule was that I would only hit wealthy people. It went well for a lot of time, until I was called in for a strange and dangerous mission. I was able to steal some documents, but only then I discovered they were government secrets. I was captured, but instead of locking me in a jail I was offered to…
neutral · AI labelView post →A simple point-and-click game inspired by the Gothic, Frankenstein specifically and with a few references to the ideas of Romanticism. There is a lot of reading to do for such a short game; this doesn't bother me, but it might to someone else. So, there's a lot of story to the game but the puzzles are not very engaging. Pros: Spooky art style and lesbians are always a win for me. The soundtrack is nice and melancholic, not much variety, but I liked it. Cons: The gameplay and puzzles are…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Book number 3 for the year is finished! I always worry about book series. I don't always like whole series. I usually like the first book and the rest of the series is a letdown. That is not the case for the Belladonna series. Foxglove ended up being a five star read because it made me cry and had the level of spice (a little but not too detailed) I prefer. I definitely recommend this series! #books #reading #bookstodon #belladonna
neutral · AI labelView post →Very short, the whole game plot is felt like the beginning of something reals... for just getting to sudden end. Game is playable and rather pleasant but don't overpay for it, buy only with a good discount.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Boring Belladonna 3/10 Heisen
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Belladonna is a Monkey Island/Day Of The Tentacle style point and click 2D adventure game. This one has a Mary Shelley's Frankenstein theme as you take on the role of a re-animated woman with amnesia who must piece together what happened to her by picking up oddly strewn journal pages from various characters associated with this incredibly short murder mystery. I guess one of the key rules of Steam that a lot of developers really don't consider is that your game really has to have more…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Gothic horror Pn'C, very simple, very short, completed in 1 hour, including the pixel hunting (no hot spot key) and the backtracking (no fast walk possible.) It's so basic that it has no options menu whatsoever, and no save menu (you'll have to trust the thing if you need a break.) The story doesn't make much sense, but it has its charm, it's fully voiced, and the art is nice. Recommended simply because it does work fine, is pleasant, and costs next to nothing when discounted.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Unplayable due to jumpy cursor. Frustrating. There's no Options menu to adjust mouse sensitivity, and the cursor location resets or jumps very frequently. A simple task like "click on the door" is a five-minute exercise. I got as far as the second room before abandoning the game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There's not a lot of requirements for a good point and click adventure game, but I'd say Belladonna breaks one key rule and that having the player sympathize with the character their playing as. At first I was into the mystery of who this Frankenstein girl was, slowly reading the story through the notes helped build that curiosity but as I went on my sympathy and interest slowly faded as I grew to not like anyone in dark story. Dreary as its meant to be I had little interest in finishing it but…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a grotesque and gothic adventure game where you try to solve the puzzle of your self re-animation. Game Time: You'd be able to complete the hole game within an hour..!
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