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Bye Sweet Carole

AdventureIndie

Developer Little Sewing Machine

Bye Sweet Carole is an action-adventure game developed by Little Sewing Machine, in collaboration with Meangrip Game Studios and Dreams Uncorporated, and published by Maximum Entertainment. It released for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Windows and Xbox Series X/S in October 2025. It is traditionally animated. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

424 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Nov 4, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works

Audience score

63
Fresh

176 positive · 102 negative
95% range 57–69%

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Steam reviews1761020
Bluesky *45576
Mastodon *0012
Lemmy *017

* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).

Steam's own rating
Mixed
424 of 623 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)

What players are saying

64% recommend · 170 yes, 95 no

Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 265 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mostly Positive (925 of 1,275 positive).

Players praise the game's stunning hand-drawn animation and art style. [1][2][3] Many reviewers find the gameplay clunky, with frustrating stealth and bugs. [4][5][6] Some players appreciate the emotional story and classic adventure elements. [7][8][9]

Liked
  • Beautiful hand-drawn animation and art style. [1][2][3]
  • Nostalgic for classic adventure games. [9][10]
Disliked
  • Clunky gameplay and frustrating stealth mechanics. [4][5][6]
  • Game-breaking bugs and softlocks. [11][12]
  • Poor writing and repetitive dialogue. [13]
  • Tedious backtracking and simple puzzles. [14][4][5]
Representative posts
  • [4]Steam user Steam user …0626Steam review · Oct 9, 2025 · Not recommended

    I really wanted to love this game. The art style is stunning and the premise seemed interesting. Unfortunately, as I near the 2 hour mark, I'm asking for a refund. Gameplay is very average. The puzzles are very simple (and often soft-locked behind arbitrary steps or narrative beats before letting you use the key or item you just picked up knowing exactly where it goes). What really makes me not want to play the game …

  • [5]Steam user Steam user …9506Steam review · Oct 14, 2025 · Not recommended

    I really wanted to love Bye Sweet Carole, but it, sadly, kept pushing me away. The trailers promised a haunting, hand-drawn world full of old-fashioned magic, and for a moment, I thought it might actually live up to it — the animation is charming and the atmosphere hits the right note. But it doesn’t take long for the cracks to show. It’s visually striking, yes, but it feels as if something essential is missing. It …

  • [1]Steam user Steam user …1480Steam review · Oct 9, 2025 · Recommended

    Always happy to support a game like this. The art so far is truly stunning, the animations look great, and there's a whimsy that's captured beautifully. Here there's the terror and beauty innate to a true fairy tale. This has the makings of a great game and a wonderful adventure! I will update this review when I complete it. Edit 1: From my impressions the writing and gameplay simply fails to live up to the art. …

  • [2]Steam user Steam user …7062Steam review · Feb 16, 2026 · Recommended

    Bye Sweet Carole – An Emotional Masterpiece of Classic Animation Rating: 10/10 (Recommended) Bye Sweet Carole is a title that proves video games can be the purest form of art. For me, it is undoubtedly the best game I have ever played. It is not just an interactive story, but a profound emotional experience that stays in your heart long after the credits roll. Story and Emotions The narrative layer is incredibly …

  • [3]Steam user Steam user …7584Steam review · Oct 12, 2025 · Recommended

    This is honestly one of the most beautiful and unique games I’ve ever played. The art style is stunning — it looks completely different from anything else out there. The story had me hooked from start to finish, and the ending actually made me cry. I was left speechless. Easily one of my favorite games so far. 💜

Summarised from 34 of the 372 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 12, 2026. How summaries are made

RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account

Bye Sweet Carole sits at 63% positive across 278 opinionated reactions from 4 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?

Critics, per Wikipedia

According to review aggregator platform Metacritic, the Windows, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S versions of Bye Sweet Carole received "mixed or average" reviews. Fellow review aggregator OpenCritic assessed that the game received fair approval, being recommended by 47% of critics. Nintendo Life praised the art style and storytelling, but they felt the gameplay was frustrating and called the character animations stiff. Slant Magazine called it "insipid and obvious" and said children are likely to find it boring. but, on the other hand, Adventure Game Hotspot called it a "stunningly beautiful adventure that hops between intense encounters and a deeply emotional narrative ... an incredibly…

From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.

Reactions

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  • Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 29, 2025

    Speaking of animation, have you seen Bye Sweet Carole? A horror game that has some particularly incredible animation, evoking the work of Don Bluth and Disney. Seriously, go look at those screenshots and trailers, doesn't that look fantastic? store.steampowered.com/app/2428980/...

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  • Steam user Steam user …0626Steam reviews · Oct 9, 2025 · 2 h played

    I really wanted to love this game. The art style is stunning and the premise seemed interesting. Unfortunately, as I near the 2 hour mark, I'm asking for a refund. Gameplay is very average. The puzzles are very simple (and often soft-locked behind arbitrary steps or narrative beats before letting you use the key or item you just picked up knowing exactly where it goes). What really makes me not want to play the game is the stealth mechanics. The enemies are oppressive. Regardless of how well…

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  • Steam user Steam user …5969Steam reviews · Oct 12, 2025 · 6 h played

    This game is unfortunately horrible. I say unfortunately because it's clear there was a lot of passion behind this project, but this passion does not show in what has been produced. What drew me to Bye Sweet Carole was its unique visual style, and I'm sure this is what drew most people in. Hand-drawn, retro animation is rare in the gaming industry (cuphead being one of the most famous and successful examples). It is very hard to pull off, but when done well, it's amazing. Here's where my…

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  • Steam user Steam user …6640Steam reviews · Oct 30, 2025 · 4 h played

    Let's start with the positives - the animation and music are wonderful. I was extremely excited to play this game - I saw the trailer and it felt like the perfect game for me, being a lover of Disney-like storytelling, 2D animation and anthropomorphic animals. Unfortunately, the final product is nothing short of a disaster. 1. NOTHING HAPPENS IN THIS GAME! For 80% of the game, you have absolutely no idea who you are, what you are doing, or what is happening. The game thinks it's an adventure…

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  • Steam user Steam user …9506Steam reviews · Oct 14, 2025 · 4 h played

    I really wanted to love Bye Sweet Carole, but it, sadly, kept pushing me away. The trailers promised a haunting, hand-drawn world full of old-fashioned magic, and for a moment, I thought it might actually live up to it — the animation is charming and the atmosphere hits the right note. But it doesn’t take long for the cracks to show. It’s visually striking, yes, but it feels as if something essential is missing. It invests so much in its looks that the act of playing feels like an afterthought.…

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  • Steam user Steam user …7948Steam reviews · Oct 9, 2025 · 7 h played

    The game is a lot of fun and genuinely a great experience.. If it wasn’t so clunky. I had to restart the ENTIRE game twice due to hardlocks regarding the chapter 4 shower puzzle, where the prompt genuinely just disappeared and wasn’t fixable despite reloading and restarting. Another issue was Lana would often just teleport forward a few inches when going between rooms, sometimes getting me stuck in objects or just on nothing in particular. The game overall is a gem and I love the art…

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  • Steam user Steam user …6745Steam reviews · Oct 11, 2025 · 7 h played

    Well, I have very mixed feelings about the game. I will try to express them in a fairly coherent manner. First, I will list the game's pros. > It is beautifully drawn in the style of old Disney. It looks very cute and is pleasing to the eye. But unfortunately, that's where the pros end. As does the game's ability to interest players. Cons, or flaws in the game. > The animations and death scenes are quite often drawn out, and by chapters 4-5, they start to get downright annoying, making you…

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  • Ciara @amayahearthmama.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 12, 2025

    How am I just now hearing about the video game Bye Sweet Carole??? A 2D animated side scroller horror game that looks close to an old Disney/Don Bluth movie?? WHAT??? Count me in!

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  • Steam user Steam user …6522Steam reviews · Oct 10, 2025 · 4 h played

    What lured me into the game was the art-style and creepiness of it. After playing some of it, the game-play is ruining the experience for me, even if the art and characters are interesting. It feels clunky. The hiding, chase sequences are incredibly frustrating, draining, repetitive and irritating. The NPCs are set to where sometimes they do not move from the places you need to go. They hard camp the area so there is no point in even sneaking around. Beautiful art-style and concept. Bad and…

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  • Steam user Steam user …9491Steam reviews · Oct 15, 2025 · 9 h played

    I was initially attracted to the Don Bluth/Disney style artwork, and the simple puzzle/exploration sections have a kind of clunky old-school charm. but good lord is the writing awful. the dialogue is repetitive and obvious, characters get no depth or development, and the whole thing has the vibe of an adult man trying to prove he's a feminist by Naming a Bunch of Women. there's literally a scene where the main character and her friend just list a bunch of famous women from history at each…

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  • John Wolfe @johnwolfeyt.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 10, 2025

    Checking out Bye Sweet Carole - a Clock Tower-inspired horror adventure game with the hand-drawn animation style of classic films! www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI7L...

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  • Steam user Steam user …1480Steam reviews · Oct 9, 2025 · 6 h played

    Always happy to support a game like this. The art so far is truly stunning, the animations look great, and there's a whimsy that's captured beautifully. Here there's the terror and beauty innate to a true fairy tale. This has the makings of a great game and a wonderful adventure! I will update this review when I complete it. Edit 1: From my impressions the writing and gameplay simply fails to live up to the art. This game needed better resource management and game design. For instance, in…

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  • PushingUpRoses 🦇 @pushinguproses.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 15, 2025

    Spooky month continues on Save Your Game as @mattaukamp.bsky.social and I talk about Bye Sweet Carole and Nine Witches. We also talk about… disembodied hands, I guess: zencastr.com/z/bX0imwqx

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  • Steam user Steam user …2898Steam reviews · Oct 13, 2025 · 18 h played

    The game is actually so beautiful but it is SO FLAWED, I am lead to understand that the developers have no idea how to make a game. They made something that looks and feels great but it's all destroyed by how clunky and how utterly BUGGY the game is. I can't express how many times I got soft locked by god knows what in this game because for some reason keyboard prompts stopped working, I looked it up on youtube and it turned out what I have is just a bug. Good, but why do I have these in…

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  • Steam user Steam user …1805Steam reviews · Oct 20, 2025 · 9 h played

    REALLY wish I liked this more. The creative and artistic vision is clearly there it's just let down by, well.. literally everything else. - Lack of mouse controls is insane for a game that's essentially a point and click. - KB and controller isn't a smooth experience either, Input prompts can sometimes disappear randomly and it's very awkward when trying to interact with more than one interactable if they're close to each other. - Lots of missing SFX and audio bugs or audio cutoffs…

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  • Steam user Steam user …1471Steam reviews · Nov 25, 2025 · 8 h played

    With a heavy heart, I chose to not recommend this game. It has beautiful art with style, excellent atmosphere, and good voice acting. However that's where the good things end. I was expecting a whimsical adventure that blend Alice in wonderland with Clock Tower, and I usually willing to overlook jank in indie games. The irredeemable part is: the story. As a story driven game, the story is a huge MESS. The coming of age story is botched, the feminist over tone makes the message feel ultimately…

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  • AndresPlays @andresplays.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 13, 2025

    Bye Sweet Carole has some of the most stunning hand-drawn frames ever seen in a video game. The narrative itself is quite touching. Too bad the actual gameplay is a slog. My review:

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  • Steam user Steam user …3560Steam reviews · Oct 9, 2025

    Congratulations on launching your beautiful game! Best regards, Lukas Iceberg Interactive

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  • Steam user Steam user …6637Steam reviews · Nov 4, 2025 · 5 h played

    I think, like most players, I got drawn in by the animation of this game which admittedly, is quite good...until it's not. The overall style and fluidity of the characters is beautiful, until someone starts talking--it's just a repeating animation of lips moving, with absolutely no attempt made to match them to the words being spoken. So, the end visual result is somehow both something that looks like it must have cost a fortune, but also cheap. Sadly, that's the least of Bye, Sweet…

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  • Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 21, 2025

    Bye Sweet Carole is out on the 9th of October, been looking forward to this one. store.steampowered.com/app/2428980/...

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  • Sarah Everett @goddammitsarah.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 26, 2025

    will be playing Bye Sweet Carole at 5pm CST tomorrow, a completely hand-drawn dark fantasy horror game that has a style I'm in love with. twitch / sarahmarvelous

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  • Steam user Steam user …4936Steam reviews · Oct 14, 2025 · 3 h played

    Despite the terrific art-style, palette and music the underlying game is painfully bad and repetitive. It's the most beautiful slog of the year. It's basically first Clock Tower from SNES. Only filled with bad puzzles, not scary, full of bugs, softlocks and tedious stealth sections. Very floaty and unresponsive controls are hardly a big helper. It's just unpleasant experience to actually play the game. Story is sweet (to a point) but predictable and filled with cliches. Setting of a Victorian…

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  • Steam user Steam user …2744Steam reviews · Oct 9, 2025 · 9 h played

    Haven't reached the end yet, but I thought I'd leave my review early because it seems from other reviews that there's some confusion about the game's genre and what players should expect. The simplest way to describe this game is to call it Clock Tower-esque in my opinion. Yes it has adventure game hallmarks like puzzles, riddles, back-and-forth exploration etc, but the horror element, the stalkers and having to sneak around quietly to avoid them is a very, very important part of the game, both…

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  • Steam user Steam user …6870Steam reviews · Jan 5, 2026 · 6 h played

    I have gotten to about half-way (I'm on chapter 6 of 10) through this game. I don't want to finish it. The art is gorgeous. I bought it IMMEDIATELY but after playing on stream and stewing with it for a bit, I don't think I like it. I don't think the writing is a selling point and it was HEAVILY advertised as a "Disney style horror game." And while yes, the art style is very reminiscent of old-school Disney, it severely disappoints in terms of quality. The voice acting - kind of all over the…

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  • Steam user Steam user …6102Steam reviews · Oct 9, 2025 · 1 h played

    Another "Steam needs a middling review option" situation. It's... a fine game. I should've seen this coming just from the trailers, but the art style carries. HARD. The gameplay is bang average and can be pretty monotonous a lot of the time (aside from the rabbit you unlock in chapter 3). Especially the "keep your balance" bits, climbing stuff (it's slow) and stealth. The game from what I've played so far is super puzzly, which means constantly backtracking to rooms to find items to progress.…

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  • Steam user Steam user …9261Steam reviews · Jul 8, 2026 · 6 h played

    Beautiful animation and it did have such a potential but ends up falling short. Controls are horrific, really clunky and frustrating. Gameplay gets boring and repetitive really quick and the story ain't interesting either. The Disney 2d style and animation shortcuts with Disney references are great, but that's about it. Also I am annoyed at how much Chris Darryl seems to want to make a name out of it, literally the only part of this game that isn't a bummer is the animation and he didn't do…

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  • Steam user Steam user …2463Steam reviews · Jun 21, 2026 · 1 h played

    Chris Darril's Bye Sweet Carole by Chris Darril is another Chris Darril's attempt to make Chris Darril a brand name by putting Chris Darril in all the title cards and credits so you never forget this game is made by Chris Darril. However, what Chris Darril forgot with Remothered and with this game here, Chris Darril's Bye Sweet Carole by Chris Darril, is that you have to also design interesting gameplay in addition to putting Chris Darril everywhere. The gameplay, like Remothered is extremely…

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  • Steam user Steam user …6701Steam reviews · May 2, 2026 · 11 h played

    I was so excited for this game to come out, i actually bought it on it's realse day I was so looking forward to it. Unfortunatley, it let me down in so many ways. Well, the art style is obviously beautiful. The music is great, particularly the credit song. You can tell the voice actors were giving it their all. And thats as many good things I can think to say. First, the gameplay. The gameplay was simutanelously boringly simply and incredibly frustrating. Spent most of the game doing…

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  • Steam user Steam user …0197Steam reviews · Mar 15, 2026 · 9 h played

    3/10 Pros: +Visually resembling old Disney animated movies Cons: +Character controls are not responsive enough +Quest goals are not clear +Animations are sometimes laggy +Plot is not logical; twist and explanations does not make sense +Interaction UI appear far too late +Parcour is not designed well +Interactive elements blend into background +Some puzzles/scenes require trial and error approach The game is good looking, but that’s pretty much it. You can’t get immersed in the plot enough,…

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  • Steam user Steam user …2382Steam reviews · Dec 13, 2025 · 13 h played

    oh. sadly it disappoints very quickly and very hard. it looks and sounds beautiful. however, repetitive animations during dialogues were a bad choice, and the writing is simply not interesting. in some ways, it reimagines Alice: Madness Returns, specifically its London part though with more feminist theme, yet i was lost before the middle of the game and didn't care what would happen to the characters or what the message of the story is. the big reason for that was no joy in playing it. game…

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  • Steam user Steam user …8299Steam reviews · Oct 18, 2025 · 11 h played

    Bye, Sweet Carole promises gameplay where you “investigate through puzzle solving, sneaking around deathly enemies, and overcoming platforming challenges.” It also claims to be a heartfelt love letter to classic animation and 90s adventures. Most of this sounded right up my alley. I love classic animation and am nostalgic for both animation and adventures from that era. I love puzzle solving and investigating in games, so that sounded great. I’m not opposed to platforming, I occasionally…

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  • Steam user Steam user …0729Steam reviews · Oct 12, 2025 · 3 h played

    I purchased this game recently, and I am requesting a refund :( I really wanted to give this game a chance, but the game is much less creepy than I hoped for and it's extremely frustrating to play. For context, I got up to Chapter 4. It has multiple glitches, soft lock issues, and a save system that hurts more than helps. I had to restart my game more than once to escape getting locked onto an action and there are so many strange bugs that have to do with timing, cut scenes playing during…

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  • Next Indie @nextindie.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 14, 2025

    Side-scrolling horror adventure game inspired by classic animations, 'Bye Sweet Carole' launches on October 9 for PC, Switch, PS5 and Xbox. Steam page: store.steampowered.com/app/2428980 #indiegames #steam #indiegame

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  • Steam user Steam user …0573Steam reviews · Jan 21, 2026 · 15 h played

    Play at your own risk. As it stands right now, I can't fully recommend this game despite that it is super fun to play and entertaining to see the hand drawn animation. It feels like watching an old animated film made by Don Blueth. However, I can't in good conscience fully recommend this game because the bugs in this game force you to rely on playthroughs instead of exploring the game yourself. You can get through the full game. But in order to do so without having to replay the entire game,…

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  • Steam user Steam user …6352Steam reviews · Oct 30, 2025 · 3 h played

    Total failure. I'm only 3 hours in, Chapter 6 (from 10), and I'm so done with this game. In cases like this, usually the gameplay is secondary to the visuals and I'm okay with that. But gameplay in Bye Sweet Carole is so frustrating, so dull and so slow, that the graphic and art style can't make up for it. You are doing lame puzzles (mostly connecting things to the electricity), trying to get some stupid letters and run away from "monsters", who can spawn right next to you and you need to run…

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  • Steam user Steam user …4623Steam reviews · Oct 9, 2025 · 9 h played

    After finishing the game, I'd give the game an overall 6.5/10. TLDR: Visuals, VA, music, story line are great, game play and mechanics are infuriating at worst, annoying at best. If you watch the trailer and like what you see, buy the game and play it for almost 2 hours. Ask yourself if you've liked what you've seen so far and the game play itself, cause it doesn't change that much. The points from my original review still stand, and is why I can't enthusiastically recommend the game at this…

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  • Jeff Brutlag 👻🏳️‍🌈 @jeffbrutlag.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 12, 2025

    I’m having a GREAT time with Bye Sweet Carole, so far! A horror game in a very classic, Disney-esque art style with tons of inspiration from Clock Tower for gameplay? Now THAT’S a vibe 👏🏼 Can’t wait to play more! Huge thanks to @maximumentmt.bsky.social for the code!

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  • Indie Game Awards @debugawards.comBluesky · Apr 1, 2026

    The shortlisted nominees for 'Best Art Direction' at Debug's 2026 Indie Game Awards are... Bye Sweet Carole Dreams of Another Gloomy Eyes ROUTINE The Séance of Blake Manor UNBEATABLE Thank you to @gamemaker.io for making our 2026 ceremony possible. See you there IRL on 25 April 2026!

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  • Steam user Steam user …0781Steam reviews · Oct 12, 2025 · 7 h played

    A beautiful game about growing up and acceptance. A bit clunky and buggy but makes up for it with everything else.

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  • Steam user Steam user …1958Steam reviews · Jan 24, 2026 · 4 h played

    So far, the most beautiful game I'd ever recommend watching on YouTube instead.

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  • Redclaw 🐉👑VILLAIN ARC @redclawdraws.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 2, 2025

    🦖Stream Schedule 11.02.25🦖 MON Bye Sweet Carole w/ @partydemoness.bsky.social TUE GAME DEMO STREAM! Trying out Dinoblade and The Secret of Weepstone! WED Wine Wednesday w/ @millanoire.bsky.social THUR MALE VTUBER DESIGN REVIEW PART 2 FRI FIRST TIME PLAYING CHRONO TRIGGER

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  • Steam user Steam user …7702Steam reviews · May 3, 2026 · 1 h played

    Devs have basically abandoned this and refuse to listen to the players. Sucks.

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  • Steam user Steam user …1076Steam reviews · Jan 9, 2026 · 9 h played

    I normally don't review games but this one has been on my wait list for more than a year now and I was so extremely excited to support it and it's creators. The art style is beautiful and the musical score is whimsical and fun to listen to but the gameplay, voice acting, and animations were sub par to say the least. The game runs at half speed the entire time you're playing, taking five years of my life waiting for an animation I accidently triggered or waiting for the main protagonist to…

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  • Steam user Steam user …2202Steam reviews · Nov 14, 2025 · 8 h played

    Writing a review because it was THAT awful of an experience and I NEED to warn people before they waste their money and can't refund it like I could, since it took me longer than 2 hours to get through the first 2 chapters of the story... First off, the controls overall, yes Controller is recommended but I fear that even with controller the keybinds and use would STILL be horrid. Near the end of the game during the last major boss fight I ended up switching them around because it was so…

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  • Steam user Steam user …6023Steam reviews · Jan 31, 2026 · 8 h played

    Bye Sweet Carole is one of those games that I struggle to understand how I felt about it. Not helping this is the fact that Steam forces a binary choice on recommending or not recommending. The game is one of extremes, either something is brilliant or terrible. Bye Sweet Carole's brilliance is in it's unique aesthetic which I find to be of a singular achievement in videogames. The fact that the game is animated like a don bluth/disney film is incredibly impressive and should be celebrated. The…

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  • No Small Games @nosmallgames.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 3, 2026

    Discover the secrets of Bunny Hall Orphanage next Thursday on No Small Games as we discuss Bye Sweet Carole 🐰🪁

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  • Ash @shaulaash.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 11, 2025

    Bye Sweet Carole Review: + A Gorgeous Animated Game +/- Slow burning story that get better as the game develops - Controls are wonky - Bugs ( Encounters not loading, bugged moves, etc.) +/- Super aggressive enemy at the start will turn people away. ( Easier to manage later) 6.5/10

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  • Steam user Steam user …9594Steam reviews · Jul 16, 2026 · 8 h played

    The first few moments were very intriguing, but after the appeal of the art style wears off all you are left with is a game which at it's core is very minimal, puzzles which are not challenging, controls which are clunky, gameplay which is repetitive and a protagonist who is written to be boring and stereotypical. Also the bugs. God, the bugs: Chases which are glitched causing enemies to find you even when you are hidden, the character sprite sometimes ending up in a walking/falling loop,…

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  • Steam user Steam user …7759Steam reviews · Oct 10, 2025 · 5 h played

    A once-in-a-blue-moon sort of game. If you love hand-drawn animation & good stories, you have to try this game. The story is atmospheric and told beautifully, with music and voice acting that does justice to the gorgeous art. Each scene's puzzles fit the story and have satisfying solutions. Without spoiling anything, the mechanics and abilities that come along as the game progresses just add so much to the experience, and I'm amazed at how smoothly everything works. It is everything I wanted…

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  • Steam user Steam user …5837Steam reviews · Sep 5, 2026 · 13 h played

    I really wanted to like this game. It has a lot going for it. The art is great, the voice acting is good and the narrator adds a touch of class. However, the gameplay is mostly tedious and often annoying. After you take an action, there is often an unnecessarily long delay before you can take another one. The loading screens are frequent and long. Much of the gameplay involves solving puzzles, which would be fine unto themselves but frequently you have solve a puzzle while avoiding a monster…

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  • Steam user Steam user …0805Steam reviews · Oct 17, 2025 · 3 h played

    Better wait before you buy it! I was so looking forward to this game! BUT the bugs I experienced are a NO-GO! In Chapter 2 it was loading forever and I had to restart the game. Luckily my safepoint wasn't far from that and the bug didn't appear again. Now in Chapter 3 I can't continue with the game... I can't control the second character anymore and because of only one safepoint (which is after the bug appears) I can't restart the game this time. Now I have to play from the beginning?! No…

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  • Steam user Steam user …6502Steam reviews · Oct 13, 2025 · 4 h played

    I've been forced to restart the whole game because I got stuck in chapter 6 due to a bug. I just can't interact with anything anymore, and is not like you can restart from a previous checkpoint or you can restart the whole chapter, which wouldn't be so bad. No. If something goes wrong with your game, you are forced to restart the whole thing. Should I had had this situation sooner, I would have had a chance to ask for a refund.

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  • Steam user Steam user …8591Steam reviews · Oct 11, 2025 · 11 h played

    ENG/ESP Bye Sweet Carole presents itself as a dark fable with classic animation aesthetics, but its content and execution fall far short of expectations. While visually appealing at times, the game is deeply inconsistent, with a narrative that ultimately delivers a disturbing message in many passages. The plot revolves around grief and a young girl’s search to understand the disappearance of another. However, in the final chapters, the tone abruptly shifts toward sexualized symbolism and…

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  • Matt Bartlett🎙️ @mattbartlettvo.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 6, 2026

    Horror game haul: Found a physical copy of Bye Sweet Carole on sale and really wanted to add it to the collection- and picked up the Dead Rising Remaster from the same sale 🤘

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  • No Small Games @nosmallgames.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 6, 2026

    Our episode on Bye Sweet Carole drops this Thursday! This narrative horror game is inspired by classic animation and involves platforming, stealth, puzzles, and bunnies?? 🐰 👀

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  • Nintendeal @nintendeal.comBluesky · Dec 20, 2025

    have heard lots of good things about this game Bye Sweet Carole (Switch) digital release is 20% off on US eShop: bit.ly/4qg9sPd $19.99 matches previous low price $17.99 on Steam from Fanatical: bit.ly/45iiPpu lowest price ever

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  • Proton Jon / Claire @protonjon.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 10, 2025

    Another offday afternoon stream! Tonight we're checking out Dicealot, a roguelite dice based deck builder game inspired by Arthurian lore, for a sponsored stream, but first, let's check out Bye Sweet Carole, LIVE at twitch.tv/ProtonJon and youtube.com/live/35wsej-...

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  • Knoebel @knoebel.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 16, 2026

    'Hotel Barcelona' adds free collaboration costumes based on Shadows of the Damned, Bye Sweet Carole, Death Game Hotel, and The Good Life as Steam Rating turns positive. noisypixel.net/hotel-barcel...

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  • Steam user Steam user …7442Steam reviews · Oct 9, 2025 · 7 h played

    This is a very early review, but the game looks good and plays well. The art style and story are both very creative and add up to an emotionally weighty feel. It's definitely a memorable game that I'll play more of and update this review. UPDATE: After a few more hours, there is some mechanical clunk, but the game is definitely one of the most memorable ones I've played recently.

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  • Steam user Steam user …7568Steam reviews · Dec 17, 2025 · 9 h played

    The game is good visuals and has somewhat of a story. The story has a lot of holes in it and is not well thought out. Lots of up to interpretation I felt and delt with too many themes at once. I noticed lots of bugs while playing especially the 3rd chapter and the future/past level with the owl (I think ch7). The bugs ruined the experience and after dying a ton it lost its horror aspect. Some of the levels it also wasn't clear if I could go in an area and I had to google how to pass a level…

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