Stray Children
Stray Children is a role-playing video game developed by Onion Games, a games company formed by members of Love-de-Lic. It was released in Japan on December 26, 2024, and October 30, 2025, worldwide. The game begins with a child being sucked into a television set into a world inhabited with children that have put up a wall to protect themselves from "Olders", adults that have become monstrous because of their inadequacies and personal issues.
Stray Children
- Date
- 2024
- Publisher
- Onion Games
- Language
- Japanese
- Genre
- role-playing video game
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• Title — Stray Children • Developer — Onion Games • Publisher — Onion Games • Genre — Role-playing video game • Modes — Single-player • Platforms — * Windows • Nintendo Switch
Development and release
Development and release
The game makes several references to Moon: Remix RPG Adventure, released in 1997 by Love-de-Lic. It has been compared to Undertale, in part due to its gameplay involving battles with both bullet hell mechanics and the ability to talk to opponents to break through their defences. Developer Yoshiro Kimura has stated that Undertale was an influence on Stray Children. Stray Children was revealed in a Nintendo Direct on September 14, 2023, where the game's Japanese release date was announced for the coming winter. An English release was teased but no release date was given at the time. It released on Nintendo Switch in Japan on December 26, 2024. The worldwide release on Switch and through Steam occurred on October 30, 2025.
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- 1.Baker, Michael. Stray Children Deep Look. RPGamer. 2025-02-16.
- 2.Evans-Thirlwell, Edwin. Former Suikoden and Romancing Saga devs release fairytale RPG Stray Children, with a plea to never spoil the ending. Rock, Paper, Shotgun. 2025-10-30.
- 3.Fenlon, Wes. After learning his cult '90s RPG influenced Undertale, this Japanese developer finally got 'the courage' to make another RPG decades later thanks to Toby Fox. PC Gamer. 2025-10-12.
- 4.Handley, Zoey. The Japanese Nintendo Direct shows off the latest Onion Games project, Stray Children. Destructoid. 2023-09-14.
- 5.Kuhnke, Oisin. Stray Children, the oddball RPG from the devs behind cult classic Moon, is coming to PC in English later this year. Rock, Paper, Shotgun. 2025-06-05.
- 6.Romano, Sal. Stray Children launches December 26 in Japan. Gematsu. 2024-08-27.
- 7.Fuller, Alex. Stray Children Heading West This Year. RPGamer. 2025-06-04.
- 8.Stray Children. Gematsu. 2023-09-14.
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