Oct 172025
Today we’re going to talk about The Children of Clay, a very short horror adventure game that came out earlier this year.
You play an archaeologist studying a strange artifact. After a brief bit of text to set up the premise, you’re given control to start investigating.
You have a magnifying glass, a collection of reference books, and a few other tools. With only a bit of guidance, it does a good job of making you feel like a detective. To use the reference books, for example, you have to type in the key word you want to look up.
It also uses stop motion animation, which is interesting.
Now, when I say it’s very short, I mean it takes less then 15 minutes to complete. However, it packs an impressively creepy atmosphere into those 15 minutes. Without being a truly Lovecraftian game, it captured that sort of essence of investigating the unknown. I’d love to see what this developer could do with a full-length horror game.
The Children of Clay is short, free, and creepy. It’s the perfect game to check out this October.
Ooh I do have a soft spot for stop-motion animation. Nice to see it still getting its use, especially in video games!
Yes, it was an unexpected choice that works well!
Does it have mummies? Because this makes me want to watch The Mummy.
We need more archaeological horrors!
Nope, no mummies in this one. Actually, it’s based in Hungarian mythology.
Huh curious. That’s one area of Mythology I never expected to have interest in, but I guess now I do!