Can you tell your daughter a good bedtime story without scaring yourself to death?

A horror puzzle word game, easy to learn, hard to master. 

Figure out which combination of words to use to use to get your daughter to sleep, but keep your own sanity in check. 

  • She likes horror stories, and hates fairy tales. Tell too heavy of a story, and you might just scare yourself.  Soothe yourself by telling fairy tales. You need a scary enough story to put her to sleep, but a light enough story to keep yourself in check. 
  • This game includes multiple play modes, achievements, and multiple endings. 
  • There is an extra hidden game mode in the downloadable version since it doesn't work very well in the browser version. I have changed the achievements to reflect this, so you can earn all achievements in browser just fine.

After a year of development, the full release is here! Thank you everybody for all the love and support. Couldn't of done this without you :)

 If you had any sort of fun at all, please leave a rating, leave a comment just to say hi, maybe say what you did or didn't like, or maybe just drop in a dollar to help fund some future games.  

StatusReleased
PlatformsHTML5, Windows, macOS, Linux
Rating
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
AuthorGreasy Paint
GenrePuzzle
Made withKrita, Ren'Py
TagsCreepy, Dark, Horror, Indie, Multiple Endings, secrets, Singleplayer, Survival Horror, Text based, Word game
Average sessionA few hours
LanguagesEnglish
InputsKeyboard, Mouse

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You posted on my Twitter but i will post here. Cool game, i couldnt seem to get a lot of the achievements, maybe another time i will try for ALL of them, haha!

Maybe have the parent tell a little of the story instead of words, just to get the reader more immersed into the game as well, thats just my opinion, other wise, cool game. 
 
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This game is so much fun I enjoyed making fun stories

Hi! I really loved your gameplay and coming up with stories while playing the game was super fun to watch :) Telling her to chill with the jump scares so you can tell the story made me laugh too. Thanks so much for playing my game!

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not a bad game at all very interesting 

Thanks for playing my game! Was very fun to watch! :)

As for the endings, if you look in achievements, you can see there is another mode to unlock, as well as a best ending. And if you're really invested, there is even a secret mode with several different mechanics to unlock that nobody has managed to beat yet, not even myself (to my knowledge at least )

Overall tho, thanks for playing my game and making a video, it means a lot! 

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Hi there, I am DragonExplosion and I am a Youtuber. If you like my videos, please leave a like and subscribe at my channel. 

This was a short horror game about putting your daughter to sleep with a grim twist which is to tell your daughter a horrifying story that makes yourself feel sick as well. I liked the story behind the game and the little animations that the creator of the game did to make the game more scary. 

The game mechanics are quite simple which is to tell a story that is not too horrifying and not too boring at the same time which can be quite a challenge to determine what words to pick to make the daughter happy and satisfied to fall asleep. It would be cool if there was more to do in the game and more narrative and storytelling going on to make it more immersive and horrifying.

Thank you for reading my comment and I wish you good luck in your future endeavours.

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Hey there! Thanks for playing my game and making a video :)

Congratulations on beating hard mode! As for more to do,  you unlocked a new mode for yourself with a new mechanic if you check the menu for beating hard mode. And if you look at the achievements, that will be your guide to other endings, and even unlocking a 5th secret mode.  Have fun!

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Thanks for telling me about the amazing content that I missed in the game. I am still trying to get pass the ??? gamemode and I am definitely frustrated by the difficulty of it XDDD. Will be making another video if I manage to beat it somehow ;-;.

I'm very glad you're enjoying it! If you do please let me know, I haven't been able to beat it myself and the two twitch streamers that attempted couldn't either, so I'm super excited. :) Thanks for continuing to play!

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Hello, I played this game and I liked it, but the balance between a scary and not too scary story seems a bit off because no matter what I do it feels like I can't get the "good" ending but aside that it wasn't bad, good work :)

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Thank you for the feedback! The game is harder then most people expect, since the premise is simple. Based on your gameplay video, I can say you were very close to the normal mode good ending. :) Thanks for playing!

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This game is a lot of fun. There's a bit of a learning curve, but it's reminiscent of the poetry writing section of Doki Doki Literature Club. Something I specifically find enjoyable is making up a short story incorporating the words used in playing the game (if anyone else does this, I'd love to see what y'all come up with, since this game needs more love).

I seriously hope  there's a sequel, or deeper lore in the future!

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Tell Me A Bedtime Story | Full Release v1.0

 


Thanks to Greasy Paint for sending this over to me to play early! 

Make sure to go check this out! Its their first full game!

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Let's go! Looking forward to playing 😀