About the Game
After witnessing the gruesome and mysterious loss of her parents, found dismembered at their home, Fran rushes into the woods, together with her only friend, Mr. Midnight, a black cat that Fran had previously received as a present from her parents.
In the forest, Fran goes into shock over the loss of her parents and when she recovers, she’s at Oswald Asylum, an oppressive mental institution for children, and Mr. Midnight is nowhere to be found.
After having a dream about her beloved cat, Fran decides to escape from the mental institution to find him and go back home to Aunt Grace, her only living relative.
Features
- Story driven creepy psychological horror adventure game.
- Unique and peculiar hand drawn 2D Art-Style and 2D animation.
- Self administer medication to open the terrible hidden world that will help solve puzzles and find objects.
- A big variety of puzzles designed with different levels of difficulty and specifically based on the story.
- Three arcade inspired mini-games all with different art style to be part of the transitions in the story.
- Interactive and occasionally playable pet cat, Mr Midnight.
- 50+ interactive unique characters with unique personalities.
- Original Soundtrack.
Screenshots
15 images
Version Information
Steam Patch Notes
Official update history
We are finally done with moving Fran Bow from Gamemaker to Unity in order to release the game to Xbox, Nintendo Switch and Playstation!
This means that you will now have an option to either start the original “vanilla” version of Fran Bow or the updated new version.
The new version includes tons of updates compared to the original!
- Controller support
- Manual save slots
- Remastered music & sound
- Additional animations
- Added French and Brazilian Portuguese localization
- Added 64-bit support for mac
Hello, awesome adventurer!
Tomorrow is the day when Fran Bow was released one year ago! To celebrate her one year anniversary, we updated the game for Windows and are having a 50% sale this weekend!
PATCH NOTES BELOW
- Fixed truncations issues when using items with objects in chapters 1-3
- Typo fixes (they never end!)
In case this update made something worse, or you had it running perfectly before, then turn to this awesome help FAQ!
Best wishes and happy gaming,
Natalia and Isak
We have released a quick update to fix the startup problem that many experienced with a recent steam client update and it should be solved now!
We have also taken away the beta branches since now you can make minor adjustments yourself in the options.ini file in case you are having troubles with the game and we will provide a guide on how to do that.
In case you are still unable to open the game by various reasons, make sure you are not in a beta branch!
To make changes in how the game starts, you can now try different methods easily in the options.ini file that lives in the game folder!
How to find the options file:
1. Right click Fran Bow in your library and choose properties
2. Go to LOCAL FILES and click BROWSE LOCAL FILES
3. Find the file called "options.ini" and open it
4. Follow the intructions mentioned there!
Since we had to revert to an older version of steam api, Fran Bow might "crash" when you exit the game but this won't affect anything so don't worry :)
We have been trying out a beta patch that helps to get rid of the biggest issues in Fran Bow.
We got great feedback from the players who tried the patch so we decided to make it available for everyone.
Fixes done:
* Initial loading is a lot faster, graphics are only loaded when needed.
* More compatible to older machines and graphic cards. White boxes should dissapear with this update.
*NOTE: If you are experiencing a slow gameplay, go to "Options and choose Shaders OFF.
Have a great day and we hope you can enjoy Fran Bow now! <3
Best whishes,
/Killmonday Games.
We have been into an amazing journey after the release of Fran Bow.
We thank everyone that has been writing lovely e-mails and sending us feedback and how you feel about the game.
You are super precious to us! <3
We present to you, some of the things we have been working on these past week:
Major changes
- You can now choose between different resolutions
(Note: The game was drawn originally at 854x480)
- You can turn on and off the shaders during pill mode
- V-sync on and off
- You can now double click on doors and windows for faster navigation
- Added in one more achievement
Minor fixes
- Fixed the feather bug in chapter 2 part 1
- A song would overlap another one in chapter 3 when you entered the bar during spring
- Typos in English and German languages
IMPORTANT NOTE:
In case you need to reset everything back to the original settings, press F10 in main menu.
For the players who still experience white textures, please check our FAQ
https://franbowgame.wordpress.com/gamer-support/faq/
Fran Bow Original Soundtrack available on Steam! http://store.steampowered.com/app/404840/
Thank you for your support!
Many hugs and shiny kittens to you!
Natalia and Isak
(KillmondayGames)
You might have noticed two updates on Fran Bow after the release day, and now we will tell you what's going on!
So this post-release patch has fixed these issues:
* A ton of Minor glitches fixed
* A crash found in chapter 1 and another in chapter 3
* Missing text in the bar in chapter 3
* Sound fixes
If you are experiencing the Loading screen error, that it won't progress after a long long time, we are still screaming at the computers on that. However, you can try this:
If your computer has two graphic cards you can switch between, try the other one! This has solved it for a some people. We don't have the opportunity to test this ourselves unfortunately.
If you see a lot of white textures / boxes, switching to your other graphic card will solve this too! Especially if you are using INTEL CHIPSET CARDS!
You can also try right-clicking on Fran Bow in your library, selecting properties and then in the SET LAUNCH OPTIONS try one of these:
-intel or -vanillagfx or -software
These can aid you too!
Hope some of these tricks can help you experience the Fran Bow journey! Thank you all for the nice words! We are doing our best to be here for you all!
Additional note!
"so for anyone with an nvidia driver; they can open their nvidia configuration panel, go to "manage 3d settings" and choose "High Performance Integrated Graphics" could help with loading screen too!
Best regards,
Natalia & Isak
Current Release
v2.5.0
Uploaded Apr 20, 2023
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How to Install
Fran Bow.exe to play
Troubleshooting tips
• Run Redist/_CommonRedist installers if game won't start
• Add folder to Windows Defender exclusions
• Run as administrator
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1.1 GB
v2.5.0
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