Finding Frankie (v1.0)

A children’s parkour show becomes a brightly colored nightmare where every cheerful mascot hides something vicious. Finding Frankie is a first-person indie horror game built around a lethal televised competition, beginning when a cereal-box invitation earns you a place inside Frankie’s Parkour Palace. What looks like a harmless athletic contest quickly turns into a survival ordeal as the mascots drop their cartoon act and begin hunting the contestants. The tone balances uncanny mascot horror with the pressure of a fast, physical obstacle-course challenge.

Movement drives nearly every moment: you sprint across platforms, leap gaps, slide under hazards, rebound from trampolines, swing on bars, wall-jump through vertical routes, and grind rails to keep momentum. Courses are not simply time trials, since danger often forces you to combine parkour with stealth, evasive route-planning, and quick reactions while Frankie, Henry Hotline, and other threats patrol nearby. The palace expands beyond its colorful play-zone façade into vents, cramped maintenance areas, dark underground passages, and maze-like spaces where speed alone cannot guarantee safety. Deputy Duck accompanies you as a useful gadget, providing light and radar scans that help identify threats and navigate the darkness.

Its strongest idea is the collision between fluid, arcade-like traversal and mascot-chase horror: instead of slowly creeping through hallways, you are often trying to escape through a dangerous course without losing your rhythm. The park’s variety gives the setting more personality than a single-location stalker game, shifting from open trampoline arenas to claustrophobic tunnels that make every noise feel threatening. Players who enjoy the unsettling mascot energy of Poppy Playtime or Five Nights at Freddy’s, but want more active movement in the vein of Mirror’s Edge-style platforming, will find a distinct twist here. It suits horror fans who can handle sudden pressure and pursuit, while parkour veterans get the most from its demanding movement sequences.