Little Misfortune

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User Score
7.8

Generally favorable reviews- based on 84 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 61 out of 84
  2. Mixed: 13 out of 84
  3. Negative: 10 out of 84

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  1. TitaniumDragon
    Apr 3, 2021
    0
    Little Misfortune is a walking simulator masquerading as a point and click adventure game. There are no puzzles of note here, and the game is a strictly linear path from start to finish.

    I don’t have anything against walking simulators, but a walking simulator lives and dies on plot and presentation. And unfortunately, Little Misfortune falls short on both. This is a game that is    Little Misfortune is a walking simulator masquerading as a point and click adventure game. There are no puzzles of note here, and the game is a strictly linear path from start to finish.

    I don’t have anything against walking simulators, but a walking simulator lives and dies on plot and presentation. And unfortunately, Little Misfortune falls short on both.

    This is a game that is deliberately ugly. The characters are all deliberately drawn to be “off”, and everything is drawn to have a run-down and often outright creepy vibe. The main character has a veneer of innocence but obviously has had a messed up life with a messed up family, and the only really nice thing in the game – “Mr. Voice”, the voice in her head – is obviously evil, with the first thing he tells us being that Little Misfortune, the “protagonist” of the work, is going to die.

    And while all of this can work if there’s a strong plot and purpose to it, honestly, this game isn’t impressive at all in that department. The problem is that Little Misfortune isn’t a particularly interesting character – she’s a little girl from a messed up family, and she is more or less the same person at the start as she is at the end. The entire plot of the game is an excuse to take us through a series of rather morbid areas while being led on by Mr. Voice, and while the game does try to misdirect us about when and how Misfortune is going to die, that’s really the only “trick” it has up its sleeve. The game is very transparent about almost everything that is really going on, and the overall morbid and gross-out “humor” that the game leans on wears on the audience after playing for only a short while. It is just too one note, and as I never actually came to care about Little Misfortune, there was nothing to connect with here.

    I can’t recommend this. It is endlessly morbid, but the messed up humor of the walking simulator is basically three hours of variations on the same joke, and there is a great deal of meandering around before the work finally goes somewhere.    … Expand
  2. NoraJo
    Mar 15, 2023
    1
    In un gioco del genere dove dovrei emozionarmi e sentirmi accompagnato e complice della voce narrante NON C'È L'ITALIANO! Ma com'è possibile? Non dico tanto ma almeno i sottotitoli.
  3. IvanMorello
    Mar 15, 2023
    2
    Little Misfortune è un gioco dalla trama accattivante che tratta temi importanti, ad esempio la depressione e di come questa venga affogata nel "Succo magico", si parla del padre violento della protagonista, di speranze, delusioni, insomma un arco emotivo molto ampio e ben costruito ed il tutto accompagnato da un black humor che sarebbe molto divertente se non fosse che nel gioco mancanoLittle Misfortune è un gioco dalla trama accattivante che tratta temi importanti, ad esempio la depressione e di come questa venga affogata nel "Succo magico", si parla del padre violento della protagonista, di speranze, delusioni, insomma un arco emotivo molto ampio e ben costruito ed il tutto accompagnato da un black humor che sarebbe molto divertente se non fosse che nel gioco mancano la lingua ed il doppiaggio ITALIANO.

    Reputo ciò il punto debole del gioco perché non permette al videogiocatore di immergersi al 100% all'interno di quella che potrebbe essere una bella esperienza videoludica e dunque gran parte dell'esperienza di gioco non viene valorizzata.

    IL MIO VOTO CAMBIERÀ NEL CASO IN CUI LA LINGUA ED IL DOPPIAGGIO ITALIANO VERRANNO AGGIUNTI    … Expand
  4. kien23771
    Mar 13, 2020
    1
    Pls, listen to me and save your goddamn 20 bucks. It's not even worth it. The developer create this game to make some money it seems. This game is a disappointment. I don't know why people rate 10 for this game or it's just developer.
  5. LYVrednyHer
    Mar 23, 2021
    0
    This is a horrible game, Complete disaster, The Plot Sucks! Atmosphere is absent, complete opposite to Fran Bow, which is a wonderful game, wouldn't recommend this piece of crap to anyone, and next game of kill Monday I'm pirating first, and if its more like this Little Missfortune game I'm never buying it.
  6. mandydiazz81
    Sep 23, 2019
    0
    Instead of "from the creators of Fran Bow" they should have gone with "We created Fran Bow, alright? But this is nothing like it".

    The shortest "P&C" I ever played. I think I was done in 2 hours and a bit more. Hugely disappointed. It looks a quick way for the devs to make a few bucks. It's not a P&C it's a Click-and-keep-moving-forward.
  7. Trypsinogen
    Sep 20, 2019
    3
    Very disappointing game, especially if you enjoyed Fran Bow. This one is way more shallow. The gameplay is worse. The choices are not important even though the game goes out of its way in a ridiculously melodramatic fashion to try to stress that choices matter when they really don't. There are no puzzles. The story is mostly uninteresting and pathetically predictable. The game isVery disappointing game, especially if you enjoyed Fran Bow. This one is way more shallow. The gameplay is worse. The choices are not important even though the game goes out of its way in a ridiculously melodramatic fashion to try to stress that choices matter when they really don't. There are no puzzles. The story is mostly uninteresting and pathetically predictable. The game is incredibly short. Can not recommend at all. As someone who enjoyed Fran Bow this is a huge disappointment.… Expand
  8. Lixjyiq
    Jun 27, 2021
    0
    This GAME IS GOOD. JUST WATCH JACKSEPTIEYE. FKINGG GOOOD. WHO GIVE 0 IS PIECE OF SHEET.
  9. Mario001
    Mar 15, 2023
    1
    Manca l'Italiano!
    Una grande pecca per un videogioco così bello.

    Se lo aggiungeranno cambierò il voto

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Metascore
57

Mixed or average reviews - based on 5 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 5
  3. Negative: 2 out of 5
  1. Riot Pixels
    Dec 16, 2019
    37
    Right now, Little Misfortune is at the top of my personal list of bitter disappointments of 2019. I would have overlooked many of its flaws, if it were just a pilot episode in a series. Alas, this is a finished product.
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  2. CD-Action
    Oct 25, 2019
    45
    The story made me uneasy not because I thought: ‘those are the kind of things that shouldn’t be said out loud’ but because I thought: ‘it’s unsettling how poorly it is written, how badly they depicted a child’s naivety and how everything is just too over the top’. [12/2019, p.78]
  3. The Indie Game Website
    Sep 30, 2019
    70
    Dark humour is used liberally throughout Little Misfortune’s exploration of bleak themes. Half of the time, you don’t know whether to laugh or recoil in horror. Either way, it’s easy to become absorbed in the plight of our little heroine. It’s pretty short for the price of admission and arguably a little too much of a cinch to play, but a loveably weird tale all the same.
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