Cult of the Child Eater
A heart-pounding 1-4 player co-op horror experience. Step into a forsaken orphanage to banish the legendary Child Eater. Work together to find clues, complete the ritual, and survive relentless demonic attacks. Trust your team, watch your back, and whatever you do—don't get caught!
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Welcome to the realm of the Child Eater. Escape a Cold War orphanage in this 1-6 player co-op survival horror. Solve shifting puzzles, evade cultists, and survive the Child Eater’s arrival.
Escape the orphanage
Hide. Loot. Solve puzzles. Work together.
Multiplayer co-op survival horror for 1-6 players
Communcation through proximity voicechat
Dynamic escape room mechanics where every session is different: puzzle-chain system
A hallucinatory horror engine that blurs reality and fear
Hostile enemies: priests, nuns, cult monsters, Child Eater
Unlockable collectibles, titles, story pieces and achievements
6 playable characters with their unique abilites and progression
Authentic 1980s eastern bloc environment, featuring pop-cultural and Cold War references
The game is set in Eastern Europe in the early 1980s. The orphans (players) must figure out how to escape alive from an orphanage that harbors terrible, evil secrets. The caretakers, priests and nuns, are members of a satanic cult and the time has come for the final séance where all the orphans are to be sacrificed to unleash demonic forces on the world and bring demonic power to earth by the "Child Eater". Secret story elements are revealed by playing through the game multiple times.
