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The Bad Kids
As an adaptation of the popular suspecse TV series, Cat's Cradle, this game combines investigation, solving puzzles and reasoning with original stories, which can build a more Immersive experience. Game will build new stories based on original setting and focus on the inner world of the character.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via SteamSpy as of 2026-05-13.
“Good atmospheric horror game with lots of logical puzzles with supernatural things going on. Couple of various endings with a lots of missable achievements. Quite a long gameplay, spend couple of days playing it. Liked it even more that its Chinese, really liked the atmosphere…”
— a player, Steam review · 16 hrs played“[h1]隐秘的角落 - Cat's Cradle [i](or The Bad Kids, still not sure which is the one)[/i] | Review in English and Italian[/h1] [h1]-------------------------------[/h1] [h2][i]English Review[/i][/h2] [h3]Pros:[/h3] - The aesthetics are very nice to look at, and perfectly manage to…”
— a player, Steam review · 7 hrs played“I can't really comment on the actual game, because it seems to be entirely in Chinese. After about 10min I ran out of patience over Google-translating the text and decided to pass it up. Shame.”
— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs playedLatest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
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Gamepad adaptation announcement
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Update Information on 22nd February
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Adventure, Indie |
| Player tags | Adventure · Indie · Puzzle · Psychological Horror · Mystery · Drama · Horror · Exploration · Thriller · Multiple Endings · Singleplayer · Atmospheric (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Partial Controller Support · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, Simplified Chinese * , Traditional Chinese * * |
| Achievements | 41 |
| Estimated owners | 50,000 – 100,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | https://weibo.com/u/7752834279 |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS: Windows 10 Processor: Intel CPU Core i3 Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750Ti DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 10 GB available space