MOLD

Casual· Simulation· Puzzle· Walking Simulator

Released Jul 2025

Mold is a beautifully haunting exploration game. Scurry around the decaying sewers as a bug in a dying colony. Collect corpses of your kin to bring to your infected queen, as it is your only purpose.

76% positive · 100 reviews

Done

All announced content has been released

High confidence

Done

All announced content has been released

High confidence

Where to get it

Free on Steam

Steam Free

Evaluation

MOLD is a short, self-contained atmospheric exploration game created by Finley Southwick as a student project for Ringling College of Art and Design. The store description explicitly describes it as "a very short narrative and atmospheric collection and exploration game," with a clearly defined scope: navigate decaying sewers as a bug, collect corpses, and bring them to your queen. There is no indication of post-launch content, DLC, updates, or ongoing development of any kind. The game launched on July 15, 2025, as a finished, free-to-play product. No developer communications have been made beyond the store description, and no DLC or updates have been listed. This is a complete game that shipped as a finished package.

Evidence

Store description describes a short, self-contained narrative exploration game created as a student project, with a clearly defined and finite scope — no mention of updates, DLC, or ongoing content.

description · Jul 15, 2025 source development ending

high

Short description confirms the game's narrow, complete premise with no suggestion of future content additions.

store metadata · Jul 15, 2025 source development ending

medium

Media

Details

Developer

Finley Southwick

Publisher

Ringling College of Art and Design

Achievements

—

Platform

Windows

Controller

full support

Steam Deck

Not rated

Players

Single-player

Casual Simulation Puzzle Walking Simulator Collectathon Exploration 3D Cinematic Realistic Third Person Atmospheric Dark Dystopian Lovecraftian Psychological Horror

About this game

The world is decaying. MOLD consumes everything

Explore this rotten world from the perspective of an insignificant worker bug doing what it can to keep its queen alive. Climb through sewer pipes and over the soft mold-covered husks of others like you.

Mold is a beautifully haunting exploration game. Scurry around the decaying sewers as a bug in a dying colony. This game was created by Finley Southwick for Ringling College of Art and Design's Game Art department.

MOLD is a very short narrative and atmospheric collection and exploration game. You can crawl on any surface-- along walls, and ceilings to collect the corpses of your kin to bring to your infected queen, as it is your only purpose as you dodge deadly fungal spores that will result in your grotesque end!

Last evaluated Sep 24, 2026