- Adventure, Indie, Card & Board Game, Horror
You are the Carimara, and your mission is to conjure a ghost by answering their questions using your cards. A short and creepy fairytale, full of surprises and mysteries.
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Grave, intimate, contemplative and earnest.
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- contemplativerelentless
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
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GamesRadar+Oscar Taylor-KentNov 20254/5 starsCarimara: Beneath the Forlorn Limbs is a slight but wonderful mystery and, to be fair, it's only a few dollars for the privilege of puzzling it out for yourself (the developer even says in the credits that it'd be excellent to bring this puzzle formula forward into new adventures – which I'd love to see). Estimated to take a little over an hour to clear, it took me more like thirty minutes.
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TheBigBoisZachary HolmesOct 20259/10In a year of sprawling AAA releases, CARIMARA: Beneath the Forlorn Limbs proves that sometimes the most powerful stories whisper, not shout. For an hour, it invites you to sit in the dark, listen to the dust, and remember — even silence has something to say.
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Use a PotionOct 20259/10Carimara: Beneath the Forlorn Limbs is a short, stylish, and wonderfully eerie mystery that trades cheap scares for a deep sense of unease and tension. Its inventive card-based communication system keeps you on your toes (and scouring the environment for clues), its haunting atmosphere feels eerie throughout, whilst its gorgeous old-school visuals help make for a world that’s constantly unsettling – and I mean that in the best possible way. Sure, it’s over quickly and it doesn’t really offer much reason to replay, but what’s here is sharp, memorable, and perfectly paced. Unsettling, clever, and quietly haunting from start to finish, you simply won’t want to miss out on Carimara: Beneath the Forlorn Limbs this Halloween.
Read the review- JetsonPlaysGamesTaylor RiouxOct 20256/10
CARIMARA: Beneath the forlorn limbs’ greatest detriments are that aforementioned length and lack of depth. It has a really great core concept, and an excellent atmosphere, but it feels more like the beginning of an adventure rather than a complete tale.
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Screen RantBen BrosofskyOct 20257/10Like a good sandwich, Carimara is satisfying.
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Snippets via OpenCritic, where 78% of critics recommend it.
About the game
- Platforms
- PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
- Developer
- Bastinus Rex
- Publisher
- Critical Reflex
- Released
- October 6, 2025
- Modes
- Single player
- Perspective
- First person
- Time to beat
- 1 h main story · 1.5 h completionist
IGDB rating 6.8/10 from 5 ratings.
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