Befriended Curse

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A summer job in a house in the woods, a missing employer and an old woman among the trees.

Platforms: PC
Stores: Steam
Price: Paid
Rated: Very Positive on Steam (93% of 306 reviews)
Length: about 1 hour 20 minutes
Players: 1
Made by: Yellow Basement Games
Released: 2024

Not on Xbox. Befriended Curse is on Steam and PC. It is not in the Xbox part of the site you came from.

What frightens Jonathan, a psychology student hired for a summer job, finds his car gone and his employer missing, leaving him stuck in a house deep in a forest. Witches, curses and fairy tales turn to horror as you explore its dark corners, meet a young girl who may hold the answers, and see an old woman walking through the woods, with corpses, paranormal events and jump scares along the way.
Content: jumpscares, corpses, violence, suicide (depicted in the story).

Befriended Curse is a short first-person horror walking sim by Yellow Basement Games in which witches, curses and fairy tales turn to horror. A psychology student arrives for a summer job at a house in a forest, his car vanishes, and he is left alone to uncover what happened there while an old woman walks the woods. The store puts it at about 1 hour 20 minutes.

About Befriended Curse

Befriended Curse is a horror walking sim by Yellow Basement Games, released on Steam in July 2024. The store calls it a classic walking sim with an eerie atmosphere and well-paced jump scares, and gives an average completion time of 1 hour 20 minutes.

You play Jonathan, a final-year psychology student who takes what looks like a good job offer for the summer break. When he arrives, his car disappears, the person who hired him is nowhere to be found, and he is stranded at a remote house in the middle of a forest, far from anyone.

You explore the house and its surroundings and piece the story together. Along the way you meet a young girl who may be the key to the mystery. You are not alone: an old woman walks through the woods outside, and the house is full of witchcraft, hanging stick stars, words written on the walls and things that should not be there.

The game mixes realistic, detailed rooms with dark fantasy built on witches, curses and fairy tales. It relies on atmosphere and timed jump scares more than chases or combat. The store warns of paranormal elements, violence, corpses and a story that depicts suicide.

It suits players who want a short, good-looking haunted house story they can finish in one evening, and who do not mind jump scares.