The Children of The Woods - Lost Tape

The Children of The Woods - Lost Tape

Another Dev Company · March 27, 2024 · Adventure, Action, Simulation, Point & Click, Action-Adventure

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About The Children of The Woods - Lost Tape

✦ AI summary

The Children of The Woods - Lost Tape is a found footage horror experience that lets you explore the mysterious disappearance at the heart of an upcoming film. This interactive teaser blurs the line between game and cinema, dropping you into creepy discovered footage to uncover what really happened in the woods.

Playable trailer for the upcoming horror found footage movie "The Children of The Woods"

The Children of The Woods - Lost Tape — game info

Platforms
Windows
Steam Deck
Unsupported
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

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

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Players are deeply divided on this horror game. While some find it effectively scary with promising potential, most criticize it for failing to deliver genuine scares, featuring annoying mechanics like poor night vision and mouse controls, and ultimately feeling tedious and boring. The game's child characters and found-footage elements particularly frustrate players looking for a more compelling horror experience.

Recommended Aug 17, 2026
[h1] The Children of The Woods - Lost Tape [/h1] Frankly this Is just a free playable game teaser for a found footage franchise that was already released at a special screening back at the Carolina fear festival in 2024 from Jake Robinson, the same director who gave us 'The Wendigo' and 'Mothman' and is predominantly famous for creating low budget found footage films in the hopes of striking it lucky and being able to capture the same profit margin winning formula that 'The Blair Witch Project' was able to later boast about. The strange thing is, that this film has been recanted already for unspecified reasons even though it generally was very, very well received and reviewed by most as his best work yet, giving a huge shoutout at the brilliant acting of some of the main female cast. The movie is about feral children, now grown up, who murder people camping in the woods for unknown reasons other than the fact they want to remain hidden. In the game you play as detective Dale Lincoln who is also in the movie and is investigating the disappearance of 5 people that went missing back in 1999. This game teaser, received a flood of unwarranted negative reviews, mainly due to the fact…
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Not recommended May 13, 2026
I was not a fan of the children. Nor their lost tapes.
Not recommended Dec 14, 2025
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Not recommended Dec 4, 2025
I just got bored
Recommended Oct 20, 2025
VERY SCARY GAME REMINDS ME OF BLAIR WITCH GAME SOMEWHAT CANT WAit for this to come out . Will be a real nightmare
Not recommended Jul 18, 2025
Mouse and "night vision" (I could see in the dark better without it) gave me a damn headache. Its biggest sin is that it's not scary.

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