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Official Trailer Release | Demo April 2 | Japanese Talent from Serial Experiments Lain, NieR, Demon Slayer, and Metal Gear | Good Children Say Grace

A first-person psychological horror adventure about a boy who thinks he is a lemur and a girl who was supposed to be sacrificed.



Canadian developer Denis Morozov partners with Kaori Shimizu (Serial Experiments Lain), Nami Nakagawa (Demon Slayer), and Norihiko Hibino (Metal Gear Solid) through Scarlet Moon for an absurdist psychological horror adventure inspired by Goodnight Punpun. Official trailer out now. Playable demo launches April 2, 2026, with Episode 1 planned for June.

 

The game was inspired by the Orthodox Christian tradition of cracking painted eggs at Easter, symbolizing Christ's resurrection from the sealed tomb. A girl named Amelia is shipped to the island after burning her cultist parents in a barn. You are stuck on a blockaded island with your newly adopted sibling, facing years of increasingly desperate decisions.

 
   

The official trailer shows the game in motion for the first time: branching dialogue, first-person exploration, a mix of 2.5D and 3D perspectives, and the visual style drawn from psychological horror manga. The inspirations include Goodnight Punpun, The Summer Hikaru Died, The Coffin of Andy and Leyley, and Mindhunter. Think of it as Stanley Parable where everyone is starving. Or Mouthwashing, but about life in Eastern Europe instead of space capitalism.


The story branches through conversation choices and movement routes. Where you walk determines which version of the story you are living. Small moments cascade into different routes and endings. The relationships you develop with the cast shift depending on your path. Every character becomes someone different to you depending on the playthrough.

 

The game releases episodically, but rather than only expanding specific storylines, each release widens the world by giving players more decisions that lead to outcomes no other path reaches. The plan is a minimum of three episodes through Early Access. If the game finds its audience, Denis and Milha will keep growing the story.





The announcement trailer, released in February 2026, was covered by AUTOMATON, Denfaminicogamer, Game*Spark, Dengeki Online, Yahoo Japan, and outlets across six countries. That coverage led Denis Morozov to incorporate in Victoria, BC, Canada, and fully commit to development. The game will support full Japanese and English localization in all releases.



 

The Sound Team

 

Through a partnership with Scarlet Moon, the game music label and artist agency, Good Children Say Grace has assembled the following audio team:

 

Kaori Shimizu voices the game's narrator and one of the main characters, Amelia. Shimizu-san voiced Lain Iwakura in Serial Experiments Lain, one of the most influential anime of the late 1990s, and a personal favorite of the studio founder. Her other roles include Signum in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, Hiyori Tamura in Lucky Star, and Yuka in Inuyasha.

 

Nami Nakagawa serves as vocalist. Nakagawa-san performed the lead vocal on "Kamado Tanjiro no Uta," the insert song from Demon Slayer Episode 19 that became a cultural phenomenon. She later performed "Kamado Nezuko no Uta" in the Swordsmith Village Arc. Her credits also include chorus work on NieR and NieR: Automata, and vocal performances across Tekken, Tales of Zestiria, God Eater, and Harvestella.

 

Norihiko Hibino is a VO director. Hibino-san was lead composer on Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty and Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, and wrote the GANG Award-winning theme "Snake Eater."



 

A Canadian Studio from a Little Island

 

Good Children Say Grace is developed out of Victoria, British Columbia by Denis Morozov and fiction writer Milha Vek, supported by fellow indie studios and former developers of the Metro series.

 

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Good Children Say Grace is a first-person psychological horror adventure. Eastern European family horror and dark romance filtered through manga-inspired storytelling. Demo April 2, 2026. Episode 1 June 2026. Steam.