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Growing My Grandpa!

98% positive of 474 Steam reviews

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Released
2022
Steam Deck
Not tested
Platforms
Steam, itch.io

Made by Yames' Games.

About the game

Growing My Grandpa! is a Cronenberg-inspired point-and-click adventure game with virtual pet elements that puts a heavy emphasis on exploration and lore.

Tagged by players

  • Philosophical
  • Lore-Rich
  • Science
  • Supernatural
  • Point & Click
  • Psychological Horror
  • Lovecraftian
  • Dark
  • Old School
  • Emotional
  • Sci-fi
  • Magic

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What players say

  • Recommended
    artwork, sound, gameplay and story work perfectly together: notes in a melody that feels original and unsettling. an excellent game. perhaps it's wise to ALWAYS source your grandpa from direct biological ancestry. do not try to generate one from raw material!

    3.7 h played when written. 7 found it helpful.

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  • Recommended
    Folks (including the dev) have been throwing around terms like "body horror" and "Cronenbergian" to describe Growing My Grandpa, but I would argue that its sensibilities are closer to the early short films of David Lynch (just look them up and you'll see EXACTLY what i'm talking about) and the stranger corners of China Miéville's fiction—particularly his short story "Familiar" (which feels like a close cousin).…

    56 min played when written. 0 found it helpful.

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  • Not recommended
    It kinda kills me to say this because the atmosphere, graphics, and sound design are excellent, but this is a monotonous, repetitive and tedious experience that ends really soon. The horror elements are limited to pseudo-scientific documents that try to build an atmosphere, but ultimately its efforts get drowned because the gameplay itself is so boring. There's soul in this game, for sure, but you might get the same…

    2.3 h played when written. 5 found it helpful.

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