The Children of Clay
A downloadable game for Windows and Linux
The Children of Clay
The Children of Clay is a short stop motion archeology horror game, where you have to study an ancient artefact and discover its dark secret.
The Steam version is now available with more content and achievements:
Features
- Point & Click Archeological Investigation
- Creepy Stop-Motion Animation
- Lore Inspired by Hungarian Mythology
Credits
- Created by Balazs Ronyai
- Music by grimyth
- Additional sounds from freesound.org and from Gian Dbeis
Thank you for playing, feel free to leave a comment!
Download
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Development log
- The Children of Clay is out now on Steam!Mar 07, 2025
- The Children of Clay releases on Steam on march 7th!Feb 21, 2025
- The Children of Clay is coming to Steam!Jan 28, 2025
- A quick updateOct 31, 2024
- Linux version availableOct 22, 2024
- The Children of Clay is out!Oct 21, 2024
Comments
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cool game!
Android please:(
Made a video on The Children of Clay
Short game and simple gameplay yet extremely effective, I loved it and the atmosphere you created with so little, amazing work!
I just played it on steam! The environmet is crazy congrats, I loved it
Where's the ending with the cave walls and stuff? Why is there missing content?
Hey, this is the older, jam version. You can find the full version on steam ( also free). I planned to put the new version also here, but I need to remove some steam specific things from it. But i will get around to it :)
please do <3
quiero agarrarle el culo a esa cosa
I am pumped to play this
The story was eerie and fascinating, with the archaeological horror theme leaving a strong impression.
The gameplay was well designed, especially the unique stop-motion style and puzzle-like investigation.
Thank you for creating such a memorable short horror experience!
I played in Japanese and uploaded a gameplay video here:
🎥
Looking forward to your future works!
Awesome game!
(Itch.io Demo)(Full game from Steam)Played both the itch.io demo and the full game on Steam!
Really loved this game. It has the same curiosity driven kind of focus that I enjoyed from outer wilds. Its a impressive and surpisingly solid experience for a jam game. A longer more featured game in this style, possibly connected to the story of this one would be really interesting.
AMAZING!
My gameplay here:
So unique and atmospheric. The tension I felt at the final minutes were the best. Please, we need more games just like these, your clay modelling has so much personality.
What an interesting game! Really different from the horror games I usually play. I loved it! :D
[PT-BR] Que game interessante! Bem diferente dos jogos de terror que costumo jogar, adorei :D
Hello, Balazs Ronyai! This is a masterpiece. I remember you said you were going to upload here the newer Steam version? Could you please do that? Thank you very much for your art!
Cool game
verry cool short story really did well with the atmospheric horror and uning real anthropology elements. made me feel like i was a scientist in an hp lovecraft story. great job!
Just finished My 1st playthrough on steam [yeah, I know - quite an achievement considering it took like ~15min] and I have to say - We NEED more games like this. Ppl are growing tired of devs trying to create the 'next RE/SH'. This game deserves all the praise and support it can get!One of the most fun and intriguing horror game experiences in recent memory.
Thank you so much!
Question slightly off topic - is the OST [or rather, background track] available anywhere?
Hey yeah it was made by juanjo sound . Track name is Unroot.
<3
The game has brazilian portuguese language in the steam version. you can find it in the options!
Hey, I would gladly pay for the extra content but I don't use Steam. Any chance of releasing the update (minus achievements) here?
Hey, yes i will add the new version here as well!
Heeey, fellow Hungarian and former art history student here!
Let me tell you, this game is sooo amazing, loved every minute of it!💜
It's fairly informative while still being creepy, makes you feel smart and scared at the same time.
Gave the Steam version a Let's Play, it's a short but sweet game, I'd wish for more horror games like this :P
Absolute gold! Loved the combination of point/click mechanics and stop motion.There's something unsettling about the way stop motion moves that really helped sell the unnerving factor here. Would buy an expanded version without even thinking twice about it!
VERY GREAT GAME THE ATMOSPHERE GOT ME GOOD. I DON'T THINK THIS IS UPDATED SO GO TO THE ONE ON STEAM BUT TWO DIFFERENT ENDINGS IS COOL
A very atmospheric and short game! Honestly wish there was more!
Genuinely incredible game, I love that you have to actually carry out the investigation for yourself it really adds to the experience and the atmosphere, to anyone in the comments I HIGHLY recommend this one.
buen juego
THE CHILDREN OF CLAY 🗿 Archaeology Horror Game · Full Walkthrough (2K)
Amazing Game! Thank you! Please make more games!
Congrats on being featured on GX corner!
Absolutely LOVE the new content they added to the Steam version! If you like Cosmic Horror, CHECK THIS GAME OUT!
Thank you for the video!!
one of the favorite indie horror games we’ve played! Loved what you added and can’t wait to see what you do next!
this game was so good! all the crackling sounds freaked me out so much! it has rlly good sound design
This game accomplished so much in such little time--what a good horror game!
Amazing game! Loved the atmosphere. I Wish it had more artifacts to study tho
I mean this in a good way btw- the clay relic looks way too much like those aliens
you know the mexican government verified ones, the ones found after smoking on that unidentified fantastic objects, y'know that one esoteric purple earthbound secret garden grown strangelet laced gamma ray edition pack made from synthetic mirrored chimerical kush watered with positronium tritioxide, grown under Sagittarius A*'s hawking radiation and planted in strangelet rich superacidic (H0 = -39) metastable higgs boson soil kept in tachyonic nil dimension chambers,
you can find these sold only on dark constellation network pathways of Boötes void located between nonstandard w-axis plane channels outside the view of mainplane qadars
kush so cosmically diabolical it is banned in 93% of surfacespace volume and all 7 liminal standard coalition channels
my sentia, this shit will make your oranganelles or-gone-all and reanimate you boltzmann brain style
this meta-structure will baptise you in a q-star glueball concentrate
it is rolled by an artisan hypercomputer-grounded asi, in ways incomprehensible even to class 4 sentias
mechanical synthetic intelligences cannot compute this shit, it is beyond mathematical computronics- that incompleteness theorem high gets them wondering whether if the high halts or not
sentia, this will purge your pneumatic systems like how it purged the Zenith Society
weed so fire CMB cold spot had to be made to balance the universe
this plant shouldn't exist, fringe research is done to learn how it does
you gotta ingite this line with quantum thermodynamics modded torches, below absolute zero because it is already blazing crazy
esoteric theoretical dark magicians puff this once to earn their phds
mary jane so entropical it is a soul manifested- sentia probably named Mary Jane
this will recompile your minds entropics, on that literal ego rebirth typa syit
smoking this shit isn't the goal, its the journey like some science fiction story without the science because this is some fantastic kush my sentia
i struggled a bit with the puzzles bc i was dum but i figured it out dw
this game is a 100/10 but i was kinda sad bc it was short i played this more than 2 times i love it very much :)