From the creators of Moon, Chulip, and Rule of Rose comes Stray Children, set to release on October 30, 2025, for the Nintendo Switch and Steam

Viviana Oliveira Santos · Sunday at 7:10 AM

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3649490/Stray_Children/

From the creators of beloved cult-classic videogames such as Moon: Remix RPG Adventure, Chulip, and Rule of Rose, comes Stray Children: a bittersweet fairy tale adventure that will change the way you think about “children” and “adults”.

Here is a description of the game's premise, provided by the developer:
One day, a young boy is sucked into a TV set and awakens to find himself in a land made up entirely of children.

So begins the boy’s adventures in this strange and dangerous wonderland.

What would you do if all the adults you know suddenly started attacking you? This is the story of children who try to survive and thrive in a world just like this, every day of their lives.

Somewhere, in our world, there’s a secret room, in a secret place, filled top to bottom with ancient technology. When one young boy flips the switch on a curious old console, they’re suddenly whisked away, through the screen, into a very strange somewhere else: a long-since forgotten role-playing game.

Blinking awake in this peculiar new place, they find themselves in a land of children.

Outside this stronghold’s walls lurk The Olders: monstrous adults, carrying the heavy load of their own inadequacies, self-doubt, and all of the grievances that grown-ups gather.

Rumor has it that these creatures are starving for something, and that — out there — no one and nowhere is safe.

Can you survive in this world where half-crazed adults lurk around every corner? It’s here — in this funny, mysterious, and wildly dangerous domain — that your story begins.

Stray Children is the latest game from Tokyo-based independent studio Onion Games. Best known for their 2020/2021 re-release of 1997’s moon: Remix RPG Adventure, Stray Children is being created by a number of former team members behind that similarly bittersweet cult classic.

Following their contributions to other beloved cult favorites like Chulip, Little King’s Story, Rule of Rose, and Super Mario RPG, the industry veterans at Onion Games have also released eccentric and entirely idiosyncratic titles like the puzzling rogue-lite Dandy Dungeon, the operatic side-scrolling shooter Black Bird, the one-button arcade kiss-em-up Mon Amour, and the mobile game madness of Million Onion Hotel.

Please support Kimura-san and his amazing and talented team at Onion Games.

Hourai · Sunday at 7:39 AM

Sounds like the exact kind of societal criticism I love. Very neat to see this happen.

Viviana Oliveira Santos · Sunday at 5:40 PM

Hourai said:
Sounds like the exact kind of societal criticism I love. Very neat to see this happen.

One thing I love about Onion Games is how humble and down to earth their developers are. They have a website called oniongames.jp, and on that website there is a series of comics that talk about what it's like to work at Onion Games, their day-to-day lives, and the development progress of Stray Children. I love how these comics show how passionate and dedicated Yoshirō Kimura and his team are.

Not only that, these comics are illustrated by the incredibly talented artist Kazuyuki Kurashima (who is the character designer for Moon: Remix RPG Adventure, UFO: A Day in the Life, Endonesia, and also Stray Children).

Here are some of the comics (unfortunately, most of them are in Japanese, so I'll only include the ones that have been translated).