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Casey, a Free Gothic Horror Adventure, Launches for PC and Phones in Spring 2027
Developer kokon released in-development footage and screenshots for Casey, a free horror adventure for PC and smartphones set for spring 2027, with a browser version planned.
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Why it matters
A free one-hour novel game with no action or minigames, and a planned browser version, puts Casey's weight on Hitoba's grotesque artwork and on choices made from Rideru's side of a friendship she keeps damaging.
Key Facts
- Casey is a free horror adventure game from developer kokon for PC and smartphones, scheduled for spring 2027.
- Character design and illustrations are by Hitoba.
- The protagonist Rideru is taken by her father to a mansion on the outskirts of town, where she meets Casey, a talking severed head.
- The game is an orthodox novel game with choice-based branching and an estimated playtime of about one hour.
- kokon also plans a browser version playable without downloading.
The protagonist, Rideru, cannot suppress the urge to hurt her own body, and her father brings her to a mansion on the outskirts of town. There she meets Casey, a talking severed head with a violent temper. Hitoba handles character design. Choices branch an orthodox novel-game structure of about one hour.
Casey has no action sequences and no minigames. kokon describes the format as an orthodox novel game, with the story branching on the choices a player makes as Rideru, and puts the playtime at about one hour.
The presentation carries the tone. The menu screen uses expressions that recall wrist-cutting along the bottom edge, and the text is set in fairytale-style prose heavy on hiragana. Against that, Hitoba draws the girls cute, and the artwork runs into self-harm and bloodshed. kokon tags the result a cute aggression gothic horror ADV.
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