Foolish Mortals

Adventure· Point & Click· Narrative· Mystery

Released Nov 2025

Louisiana, 1933. Thirty years ago an entire wedding suddenly & mysteriously vanished on the island of Devil's Rock, and with it went the location of the lost treasure of Bellemore Manor. To find it, you might need to die too. A cozy, story-driven, point & click adventure game of the merry & macabre.

94% positive · 767 reviews

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Evaluation

Foolish Mortals launched on November 5, 2025 as a complete, self-contained story-driven point-and-click adventure game, with the store description explicitly comparing its length to finished classics like Monkey Island and Broken Sword. All three DLC items — a companion diary, artbook, and soundtrack — were released simultaneously on launch day as bonus content, not post-launch story additions. Since launch, the developer has issued a series of post-launch updates: Version 1.3 in December 2025 added translation improvements and bug fixes, a small graphical fix arrived in April 2026 (Version 1.4.3), and on August 27, 2026, the developer shipped the Foolish Mortals 2.0 update. That 2.0 update is a substantial quality-of-life release adding controller support (including Steam Deck), cutscene clickthroughs, save overwriting, menu UI improvements, and animation optimizations — features the developer notes were driven by player feedback and work toward future console ports. Notably, the 2.0 update contains no new story content, puzzles, or narrative expansions. The developer frames it as a polish and accessibility pass, and explicitly states they are "in the process of getting console ports ready." There are no unreleased DLC entries, no roadmap for additional content, and no developer statements indicating plans for new story content or expansions. The game shipped as a finished product and continues to receive maintenance and quality-of-life improvements — the 2.0 update does not change the content-complete status of the game itself.

Evidence

Foolish Mortals 2.0 ships with controller support, Steam Deck improvements, cutscene clickthroughs, save overwriting, menu UI refresh, and animation optimization — all quality-of-life features based on player feedback. No new story content. Developer mentions working toward console ports.

news post · Aug 27, 2026 source development ongoing

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All three DLC items (companion diary, artbook, soundtrack) were released simultaneously on launch day, functioning as bonus content rather than post-launch story additions.

dlc listing · Nov 5, 2025 source content shipped

medium

Content

3 of 3 released · no outstanding content

Released

Foolish Mortals Murphy's Diary

Nov 2025

Released

Foolish Mortals Artbook

Nov 2025

Media

Details

Developer

Inklingwood Studios

Publisher

Inklingwood Studios

Achievements

Platform

Windows, macOS

Controller

full support

Steam Deck

Playable

Players

Single-player

Point & Click Narrative Mystery Adventure Atmospheric Cozy Visual Novel Exploration Story Rich Romance Investigation 2D Cartoon Hidden Object Hand-drawn

About this game

DEVIL'S ROCK
An island off the coast of Louisiana
1933

“Ever since I heard of the treasure inside Bellemore Manor I've been obsessed by it. People said the house was still haunted by the ghosts of the wedding that disappeared there decades ago, but if the ghosts knew where the treasure was hidden, I just had to ask them.

But there's more to the treasure than I could have ever expected, and now I've awakened a household of spirits who don't mind that they're dead, and an evil phantom determined to find the treasure before I do.

Fixing the situation won't just mean getting to the treasure first, but also figuring out what happened on the island all those years ago. But I have a feeling that in order to do that, I'll have to die too.”

– The Diary of Murphy McCallan

A merry & macabre mystery puzzle game set on the enigmatic island of Devil's Rock in 1930s Louisiana
Spooky not scary - a cozy game with no deaths, dead-ends, or scares
Classic-style adventure game puzzles with over 100 items to pick up and use - plus a built-in hint system
Piece together the clues to find out what happened in Bellemore Manor thirty years ago
More than 75 gorgeous hand-drawn locations at full HD resolution, plus dozens more paintings, documents, and other details to investigate
A full-length experience, with a gameplay time equal to Monkey Island and Broken Sword
High quality animation from a professional animation studio
More than two hours of original music, including an interactive big band song
Fully voiced, with more than 35 characters to interact with
Starring AJ LoCascio as Murphy McCallan (Marty McFly in Back to the Future: The Game, Han Solo in LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, Gambit in X-Men ’97, and many more).

Foolish Mortals contains no AI-generated content. All characters, backgrounds, graphics, animations, music, and voice acting were created by real human artists. Check out the Foolish Mortals Artbook DLC for a showcase of the making of the game.

Last evaluated Aug 28, 2026