
Release Date: October 9, 2025
A horror adventure game, visually inspired by iconic animated movies. Bye Sweet Carole stars Lana Benton, a young girl seeking a way out of a horrible orphanage overrun by nightmarish rabbits.
Bye Sweet Carole is an indie horror adventure game. It was co-created by Little Sewing Machine and Meangrip Studios, and directed by Chris Darril, known for the Remothered series.
The main protagonist of Bye Sweet Carole is Lana Benton. Under urging of the terrifying Mr. Kyn, also known as the Old Hat, she finds herself transported into a mysterious garden. After reading the letters written by a certain "French", she decides to follow the trail of Carole Simmons, a girl her age who has somehow managed to escape this place. Lana must explore the nineteenth-century Bunny Hall orphanage and find a way out. She finds the building overrun by hordes of wild rabbits, trying to open a portal to her world.
Bye Sweet Carole is a side-scroller. The player must explore the orphanage and the surrounding garden, solving puzzles and obtaining clues regarding the world and its inhabitants to progress the story. We must be constantly on guard, as the rabbits are hostile and dangerous. Our character can't fight, so she must hide from the enemies, sneak behind them or flee when detected.
Not all encountered characters are hostile, thankfully. One friendly NPC is Mr. Baesi, a sizeshifter. Lana herself soon gains shapeshifting abilities as well; in the form of a rabbit, she can interact with other rabbits and reach usually inaccessible places. We can switch between these forms freely, which comes in handy when solving environmental puzzles.
The most striking feature of Bye Sweet Carole are its atmospheric, hand-drawn graphics, inspired by iconic animated movies.
Platforms:
PC Windows October 9, 2025
PlayStation 4 cancelled
Xbox One cancelled
Nintendo Switch October 9, 2025
PlayStation 5 October 9, 2025
Xbox Series X/S October 9, 2025
Developer: Little Sewing Machine / Meangrip Game Studios (PC) / Meangrip Game Studios (PS4) / Meangrip Game Studios (XONE) / Meangrip Game Studios (Switch) / Meangrip Game Studios (PS5) / Meangrip Game Studios (XSX)
Publisher: Maximum Entertainment / Zordix
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Your cozy break is over. Bye Sweet Carole mixes beloved Disney charm with eerie characters and menacing monsters.
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Olga Racinowska
October 9, 2025
System Requirements for Bye Sweet Carole Video Game:
PC / Windows
Minimum System Requirements:
Intel Core i3, 8 GB RAM, graphic card 2 GB GeForce GTX 770, 15 GB HDD, Windows 10 64-bit.
Recommended System Requirements:
Intel Core i5-7400, 8 GB RAM, graphic card 4 GB GeForce GTX 1650, 15 GB HDD, Windows 10/11 64-bit.
Game Ratings for Bye Sweet Carole Video Game.
Try Hard Guides: 6 / 10 by Erik Hodges
Bye Sweet Carole is an incredible work of art and animation, one worth experiencing on its artistic merits alone. As a game, however, it leaves much to be desired, failing to innovate with its shallowest of mechanics. It is a game that plays slow when it plays at all and likely would have done better as a film.
Video Chums: 3 / 5 by A.J. Maciejewski
Although it can be an exceptionally frustrating and unintuitive game, Bye Sweet Carole is still gorgeous and its puzzles can be quite satisfying. ??
DualShockers: 6.5 / 10 by Callum Marshall
"Bye Sweet Carole is an ambitious game that shoots for the moon and ends up among the stars. The Disney-style presentation is damn near flawless and evokes a sense of childish nostalgia that hardly any game has managed to do before. Not to mention, it's a pretty competent puzzler that feels cut from the same cloth as LucasArts classics in many ways. However, due to a slew of technical issues and some of the most cumbersome and unsatisfying platforming, stealth, and action sequences I can recall enduring, the game undoes a lot of its fine work to ultimately end up being a unique, but rather average experience."