Fran Bow is a point and click horror game that uses a psychological type of horror. Fran Bow was made by Natalia and Isak Martinsson and includes autobiographical elements from Natalia’s life. Throughout the game you have to solve puzzles to progress you have to talk to other characters to find out about the world and what you need to do. Also you to find and sometimes combine objects to figure out how to solve them.

In the game you play as a ten year old girl named Fran Bow who developed a mental disorder after having witnessed her parents murder. Fran ends up being admitted to Oswald Asylum and is separated from her only friend her cat Mr. Midnight. While in the asylum she is cared from by Dr. Marcel Deern who gives her medication that causes Fran to have vivid hallucinations of a bloody, horrific, and grisly looking parallel world filled with strange creatures and shadowy figures called Kamalas.

Fran decides to escape the asylum to find Mr. Midnight and get back home. The pills Fran is given allows her to go from one world to another when ever she takes them which allows you to find things you can only get in the bloody world that help you escape. Throughout her journey Fran tries to find out who is responsible for her parents’ deaths and discovers a place called Isthersta where people are vegetables and roots.

In the game Fran herself becomes a tree when she enters this place. After she leaves Ithersta she meets a skeleton type creature named Itward who helps her get back to Mr. Midnight. Throughout the game it becomes harder for Fran to tell the difference between what she sees as reality whether she is on or off the pills. The game makes it seem as though her views on reality are breaking as you progress in the game. In the end of the game she finally faces the reality of her parents’ deaths and finds out who is responsible for them.