ChildMare

ChildMare is a horror game set in an underground laboratory in the 1980s. In its first chapter, you play as an employee trapped inside after a critical incident plunges the facility into darkness and locks it down. You must survive and find a way to escape.

The laboratory

The facility belongs to the “Super Children” program, a scientific project that claimed to correct genetic flaws and advance human evolution. You explore its grimy industrial corridors, lit by flickering neon and filled with the hiss of CRT monitors and the hum of vintage soda machine compressors.

Evade Lou

The program’s top test subject, Lou, was a blind young girl the scientists intended to “repair.” The experiment mutated her and gave her hyper-acute hearing. She roams the dark corridors and cannot see you, but hears your every step. You tread lightly, hide under desks and hold your breath to avoid her.

Search for answers

You search computer terminals and find audio cassettes hidden throughout the facility. The scientists’ voice recordings reveal how the “Super Children” program spiraled into horror.