Last updated on January 16th, 2026 at 12:10 pm
Fran Bow – Adventure Game Review
Fran Bow is a Adventure/Puzzle game from Killmonday Games AB, first launched in 27th April 2023.
It’s rated 17+ and currently has 35+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Fran Bow Stand Out
After witnessing the gruesome deaths of her parents, a peculiar young girl named Fran is imprisoned in Oswald Asylum. To survive the asylum’s cruel experiments, Fran self-medicates, giving her the ability to see a sinister alternate world, the Ultrareality.
Follow Fran on her epic journey through the Ultrareality to uncover who killed her parents, reunite with her missing cat Mr. Midnight, and return home to Aunt Grace, her only living relative.
FEATURES
- Story-driven, psychological adventure game.
- Self-medicate to experience a strange alternate world, and to help solve puzzles and find items.
- Puzzles of varying levels of difficulty.
- Interactive and occasionally playable pet cat, Mr. Midnight.
- Creepy-cute 2D Graphics, reminiscent of a children’s book.
- Explore 70+ hand-painted locations.
- Interact with 50+ unique characters throughout the realms.
- Enjoy Fran's dry, quirky sense of humor.
- Includes 3 arcade-inspired mini-games with different art styles to play through between each chapter of the story.
- Original soundtrack.
This Adventure game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Fran Bow is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 28th April 2023
Download & Availability
Fran Bow is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Its hard to even put the experience of this game into words. Its a wondrous view into the way an innocent child can see things, and a dark exploration of mental illness on top of that, with the forces of good and evil clashing in such a way where you dont really know whats real. If you like classic point and click style games and horror games with deep, fantastical, yet dark plots, then this one is for you. 10/10 experience, although we think an HD rerelease would be quite nice.
We love this game so much then after we played little misfortune (which is another game done by the same creators) and it was great too and now we're scouring the internet trying to find another game like those….. We can't !! They are great highly recommend.
Enchanted this games, visual art is awesome, us gusta su Historia con Temas complejos y su Filosofia.
Ive always wanted to play the game but due to having no console or computer it wasnt possible until now it took us a while to get the game but it works like a charm! If you need help when getting stuck Id suggest saving your game first then going to walkthrough sites to help other than that everything is perfect! Amazing art, styles, animation, story, and characters its a 100/10 for us lol.
Im dont game a lot but this has us hooked and needing more. The structure of the game is a mix of devices that always keeps things interesting. Theres story, mini games to progress through the larger story, puzzles, moon logic, world exploration, and a lot meeting different people and creatures. You play as the character of Fran Bow, an 11 year old girl whose parents were murdered and who is trying to find her cat and the truth about what has happened to her. In order to progress she must play with the folds of reality and time which takes her to many different world. The atmosphere is macabre and beautiful. Theres also an underlying story of journeying through mental health and facing your fears and the ugliness that you may feel is inside you. Ive just barely finished the game and we feel like Ive gone on our own personal journey of healing from playing it. Some other takeaways: -If youre feeling stuck, brush your hair and drink some water -Spines are a thing all humans have in common Ill definitely be seeking out some more games by Kill Monday.
This is an amazing game, we love playing it but we have an issue with the chemistry in chapter 4, we solved the chemistry but its not doing anything to move on, we would try to click the beakers but it would just make Fran say that she wonders whats in the beakers, can you please fix this.
Little expensive for a game but totally worth it, took us maybe 8 hours to finish and its nice, challenging, and interesting game. Listen to the warnings though, a LOT of gore.
We absolutely loved this game! It had our emotions all over the place! It had everything! Horror, adventure, psychological thriller, its the best game Ive ever played in our life! We highly recommend it. Just be warned, its not for the faint hearted.
We enjoyed this game. A hint system wouldve been nice, we feel like we bumbled around a lot trying to figure out what to do next. We had to use on-line walk throughs on quite a few occasions to go further in the game. If you like this, Id suggest Silent Age and Midnight Girl.
Hi, we know this game, have for awhile, and we got it on our phone to actually play it for ourselves. Come to fine out we cant give the bun to the guard to initiate the next part of the game in chapter one. We do see some of gotten pass though, not sure how, but that chapter four had problems with filling a water bucket from other reviews. If you want the game Id wait for an update that fixes that or get it on a different platform because it is a good game, its just not figured out on mobile yet.
In chapter 4 we cant fill up the bucket when we go too our purse and press use on itwards bucket and press on the water it disappears (the water disappears).
We do like the game but for the cinnamon bun we cant give it to the guy.
We loved this game and kinda fell in love with Fran. Take the trigger warnings seriously though. It deals with some bloody and gory stuff. However, there was a serious glitch that would not allow us to fill the water bucket at the end of Chapter 4. As a result we had to purchase chapter4 and 5 separately in order to complete the game. Im not very happy about that. 9.99+1.99+1.99 = unhappy.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.0
- Size: 779.74 MB
- iOS: 16.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humor, Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes, Frequent/Intense Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: [Killmonday Games AB]()
Last updated: 28th April 2023 | Genre: Adventure, Puzzle | Developer: Killmonday Games AB