CARIMARA: Beneath the forlorn limbs

CARIMARA: Beneath the forlorn limbs

Released Oct 2025

A mute little thing with borrowed magic. A house that murmurs back. Ask wrong, and you might wake something that remembers your name.

96% positive · 2,777 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence

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Steam $4.99
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Evaluation

CARIMARA: Beneath the forlorn limbs launched on October 6, 2025. The developer, Bastinus Rex, describes it in their own words as "a short experience" — a self-contained game designed to be complete as shipped. The store description echoes this, framing the game as a finished piece with hidden secrets and surprises baked in at launch. There is no DLC, no season pass, no roadmap, and no announcements of future content. The only post-launch activity was a hotfix on October 9, 2025 addressing minor bugs. No developer communications since that date suggest any plans for additional content. The game launched as a complete, finished product.
Evidence
Developer explicitly describes the game as 'a short experience' with secrets hidden in it — language indicating a complete, self-contained work
description · Oct 6, 2025 source development ending
high
Game launched on Steam as a finished short horror adventure with no mention of post-launch content plans
news post · Oct 6, 2025 source content shipped
high

Media

Details

Developer
Publisher
CRITICAL REFLEX
Achievements
16
Platform
Windows, macOS
Controller
—
Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player

About this game

I had a blast creating this little game. It's a short experience, and I hope the secrets and little surprises I hid in it will stay with you for a long time!

- Bastinus Rex

You are the Carimara. Small, mute, sorcerous. Born of moss and mirrorlight, skilled only in the art of asking. Wandering a house stitched from grief and riddles; you don't speak, you don’t chant, you don’t fight. You hold the house by its dead hands and conjure questions from dust, from bone, from whatever’s left behind. Be careful not to press too far, or wake you might, what's sealed afar. 

You Are Mute, But You Have A Gift Of Conjuring Questions

You speak through cards with glyphs long lost, in halls where kindness hides its cost.

Some smile, some sneer, some simply stare, but all who watch know you are there.

Every Object Is A Memory

Within these walls, let silence guide, where cards bloom from what things once hide.

Ask gently now, with ghostly touch. Some secrets crack when pressed too much.

A Stillness Dressed In Dust And Flame

Candlelight flickers on furniture worn, in rooms where silence was weathered and torn.
It waits in the gloom with a breath held tight, a hush that has lingered far past the night.

A Tale In Threads Of Quiet Dread

No blades to swing, no foes to fight. Just riddles wrapped in candlelight.

For those who seek what lies askew, where stories murmur back to you.

Last evaluated Jun 18, 2026
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