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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.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-25.
“Very short but fun game. My only problem is that if I studied archaeology for some time and still had to search for the word "clay," I think they'd fire me on the spot.”
— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs played“Great wee game. An interesting aspect of the cosmic horror genre which is little explored in games but often appears in mythos books - the antiquarian inspecting the artefact and experiencing the associated weirdness. Great links to the folklore and good mechanics which fitted…”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played“this is a nice simple horror game where you play as an archeologist who, for some reason, is dumb enough to mess with foreign objects. theres literally a saying that you arent supposed to touch things that dont belong to you, and this game is basically proof of why. the children…”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs playedAchievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-26.
Latest official news
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100 000 players! Thank you
Hey, thank you everyone for playing and leaving reviews! It's amazing that now over 100 000 people played this little game and it has more than 2600 english reviews. Its really encouraging. Sorry for
Update 2 - Simplified Chinese, Korean, Catalan
Hey! The game has been translated to 3 new languages! Only possible thanks to the translators, who volunteered to translate it! Simplified Chinese by °Know Team : Translator: Cûedhel Proofreader: Lean
Patch 4
-fixed Rovas runes page not appearing in the Brazilian Portuguese version -some tweaks of the Japanese version
Patch 3
-fixed a bug in the japanese version where players could not search for Rovas runes
Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-25.
| Genres | Adventure, Indie, Simulation, Free To Play |
| Player tags | Horror · Atmospheric · Detective · Lovecraftian · Adventure · Puzzle · Simulation · Point & Click · Typing · 2D · First-Person · Cinematic (Steam store community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, Spanish - Spain, Hungarian, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Catalan |
| Achievements | 6 |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS: Windows 10 Processor: Intel Core i5-760 (4 * 2800); AMD Athlon II X4 645 AM3 (4 * 3100) Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: GeForce GTX 550 Ti (3072 VRAM); Radeon HD 6850 (1024 VRAM) Storage: 100 MB available space