Hello Charlotte: Delirium

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No Puppeteer this time. What kind of girl is Charlotte on her own?

Platforms: PC
Stores: itch.io
Price: Free
Rated: 4.6 of 5 from 313 ratings on itch.io
Length: about 30 minutes
Players: 1
Made by: etherane

No. 14 of the artificial intelligence horror games · No. 15 of the puppet horror games · No. 18 of the cannibalism horror games · No. 28 of the horror games set in a house

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What frightens A spin-off of the Hello Charlotte series set between EP1 and EP2, in a two-dimensional world without morals where Puppeteers do not exist and Charlotte is free to be whatever she is; its key art surrounds her, smiling with a knife and fork, with severed heads and raw meat, and the maker warns of chase scenes.
Content: chase scenes, gore imagery.

Hello Charlotte: Delirium is a free half-hour spin-off of etherane's Hello Charlotte series, a puzzle adventure made in RPG Maker and set between EP1 and EP2. In a world where Puppeteers do not exist, Charlotte is left to her own appetites, and the maker warns of chase scenes and suggests playing it after EP2.

About Hello Charlotte: Delirium

Delirium is a side story in etherane's Hello Charlotte series, the surreal RPG Maker horror games about Charlotte, a puppet girl, and the House she lives in. It is free on itch.io for Windows, with official Spanish, Korean, Polish and Chinese versions as well as English.

The main episodes cast you as the Puppeteer who pulls Charlotte's strings. Delirium takes that away: it welcomes you back to the House, but in this world Puppeteers do not exist, and it asks what kind of girl Charlotte would be in a two-dimensional world without morals. It sits between the first and second episodes, though the maker suggests playing it after EP2.

It is a short puzzle adventure of about half an hour, with chase scenes. You start in Charlotte's brightly decorated room, feed her Magcat, and wander the House poking at things. Some of them kill you on the spot, and that's part of the joke: the wrong cage or the wrong door ends in a game over screen, so you learn to look before you touch. Its key art sets the tone: Charlotte grinning with a knife and fork, surrounded by severed heads, steaks and sausages, over a menu that offers to forget, remember or run away. The series' mix of dark humour and real unease is here in small form.

It suits players who have finished the Hello Charlotte episodes and want more of its world, rather than newcomers, since it leans on what the main games set up.

How to play Hello Charlotte: Delirium

Download Hello Charlotte: Delirium free from itch.io and run it on Windows.
Play the main Hello Charlotte episodes first, ideally through EP2, as the maker suggests.
Explore the House, talk to whoever you meet and examine things to solve its puzzles.
Be ready to run when a chase starts.

Tips

Save before anything that looks like it might start a chase.
Play it after EP2: it makes more sense with that episode fresh in mind.
A few rooms and objects end in an instant game over, so save before you open a door you haven't tried.