KaRu

KaRu

Mirror Studio · October 31, 2022 · Choose Your Own Adventure, Interactive Fiction, Casual, Point & Click, 2D

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Mostly Positive78% · 40
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About KaRu

KaRu is a short, horror experience where you play as a Parasite. He wakes up next to a young boy he never met in a place they shouldn't be. Now they have to trust each other and find a way out. The game is about an hour long, and it has four endings! This is meant as an introduction to many more insights to come, taking place within the same universe, so, please do enjoy this little world!
A.M.

Karu is a point & click, multiple-choice/ending, visual novel game.
Navigate around the areas with your cursor and pick the correct choices to reach a better outcome for the protagonist.
Find items that will help paint a clearer picture of where you are, and what happened to those who came before you.
Avoid unnecessary conflict with the characters.

M.A.

KaRu — game info

Platforms
Windows, Linux / SteamOS
Steam Deck
Playable
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included
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What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Not recommended Jun 11, 2025
[h1]This is bad[/h1] First of all , the game didn't pop off properly , just not on full part on my monitor. After closing and reopening it, it finally worked. While playing, I noticed bizarre game design: for example, skipping scenes also skips dialogue with no option to avoid it. Worse, there’s a character inconsistency: a long-haired girl is referred to with “his/he” by the devs, yet has a female voice actor and a male-modeled chest. I also can’t finish the game due to a pixel-hunting bug; there are no clues in the cell. Conclusion: 1/10.
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Not recommended Jul 1, 2026
Well, I wanted to give this game a fair shot and it kind of pains me to give it a bad review - but all things considered the negatives overweight the positives. Praise first: - the art is nice, it's very appealing - most of the voice acting is decent, with me especially enjoying one of Dehas crazier momenta - the premise/storyline is unusual and an intresting concept - it's not to long, so it doesn't drag or fall out too short - it's free Now for critique; - the story has several holes and is sort of inconsistent - sometimes not explaining Terms or plotlines and going "well it's too complicated to explain" - why is a minor shown half naked for half of the game??? couldn't you guys give him like... boxers or something... idc if it's "unrealistic" there's literal people with 6 eyes and 6 arms in this - the true ending was a bit lackluster, with the only moral of the story being "Human trafficking is bad" which, thanks - mist people know that I'm afraid - there's no skip button - not a functioning one at least, it was a pain in the ass to skip through dialogue if you forget to save at the right moment Overall it's not the best VN I've played on steam but luckily also not the worst,…
Recommended Feb 15, 2026
good
Recommended Nov 22, 2025
This game left such a good impression on me, I never though interactive games like this with only picture could ever be good, so this game really suprised me. The lore, the visuals and the music its all so good, even the fact that the mouse cursor is an eye The only criticism I have is that at the end you have to decide where to go and it gets harder to see what way to go its just annoying. And the ending was so idk, I cant live with the ending being only this. 9/10
Recommended May 21, 2025
A 90 minute dark visual novel. Completely free. It´s not for people who get easy triggered with domestic violence are abuse themes. But in its world it tells a good story that is worth being told. The dialogue are fully voiced and the graphcs are beautiful too. Download it now and if the studio publishes another title, a paid one, support them.
Recommended Mar 31, 2025
it was nice but also a little boring it lost my attention half way through it

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