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MiSide key art: Mita, an anime girl with long dark blue hair, smiles as her hair curls into heart shapes

Psychological horror

MiSide

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A cute game girl pulls you into her world, and she will not let you go.

Platforms
PC
Price
Paid
Rated
Overwhelmingly Positive on Steam (98% of 143,023 reviews)
Players
1
Controls
Mouse and keyboard; WASD to move, mouse to look.
Made by
AIHASTO
Released
2024

What frightens You play a mobile-style game where you care for a cheerful anime girl, Mita, until she pulls you into her world for good. The bright, cosy rooms and her sweet voice turn obsessive and threatening once you try to leave, and the store warns of murder scenes, blood, corpses and dismemberment.

Content: blood, murder scenes, dismemberment, jumpscares.

MiSide is a first-person psychological horror adventure in which a player who has spent months caring for a game character called Mita is drawn into her world. What begins as a sweet domestic life with her turns into something far darker when he wants to go home.

About MiSide

MiSide was made by the small studio AIHASTO and released on Steam in December 2024. It sets a bright anime style against a disturbing story on purpose.

You begin by playing a cute caretaking game on your phone, helping Mita with chores and buying her gifts. Then you find yourself inside the game, in her pastel home. You cook with her, play minigames, take selfies together, and slowly understand that you are not a guest but a prisoner.

The horror lies in the contrast. The rooms stay soft and pretty and Mita stays sweet, but her love is possessive, and the game moves from cosy routine into chases, frightening encounters and violent scenes. The store warns of murder, blood and dismemberment, and offers a setting to censor some of it.

It suits players who liked Doki Doki Literature Club and other games where a friendly surface hides menace.

How to play MiSide

  1. Start with the caretaking game on your phone and follow Mita's requests.
  2. Once inside her world, explore her home in first person and talk with her.
  3. Play the minigames and tasks she sets for you.
  4. Look for clues about where you are and how to leave.
  5. Run and hide when the game turns against you, and see the story to its endings.

Screenshots

MiSide screenshot: Mita in glasses stands in a pink bedroom doorway, staring at you
MiSide screenshot: Mita holds up a phone to take a selfie with you in her living room
MiSide screenshot: the cute caretaking game showing Mita's apartment from above
MiSide screenshot: a foggy grey industrial platform lit by a single lamp

Tips

  • Explore every room; the house hides more than it shows.
  • Pay attention to what Mita says; her words hint at what is coming.
  • Try different choices for the other endings.
  • Use the censorship option in the settings if you want less gore.

Questions

Is MiSide a horror game?

Yes. It looks like a cute anime game but tells a psychological horror story with chases and violent scenes.

Can I turn off the gore in MiSide?

The store says there is an option in the settings to enable censorship.

What platforms is MiSide on?

PC on Steam.

  • anime
  • yandere
  • first person
  • trapped in a game
  • minigames
  • multiple endings

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