Mushroom Musume
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux
Once upon a time, a lonesome recluse wished for a daughter. A witch overheard their wish, and instead granted them a pot of dirt. Play the role of the hermit as you grow your adoptive child, and discover how many kinds of person (mushroom?) your daughter can be.
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~The Death and Decay Update has Burst Forth From the Grave!~
This update will thrill and chill you with a variety of goodies!
- Two new Almanac sections, a collection of Previous Daughters and your Discovered Endings! Can you find all 26 endings currently in the game? (More are being added every update!)
- A selection of new colors to fit the season. Some are achievable in game, but for others you may have to go TRICKORTREATing...
- Some new UI additions so that you can see a little more clearly what sort of girl your daughter may become!
- New events, full of scares and death! (Well, okay, most of them aren't THAT scary...)
- Keep your eyes peeled for an extra special event, a labyrinthine story-book adventure where you take the role of a young girl exploring a witches mansion...!
More updates, improvements, and fixes are on their way, so give us a follow to see what happens next!
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Inspired by titles like Princess Maker and Alter Ego, we were looking to channel the same energy as classic DOS life simulation titles. The game features over a dozen types of mushroom girl with each having their own special qualities that impact the choices you can make.
This game was created for the PIGSquad June 2022 Summer Slow Jam! The themes were 'Character Creator' and 'Unintended Consequences'. We hope you enjoy creating some mushroom daughters... And reaping the consequences!
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Note: Mushroom Musume is still in active development! While we're starting to get pretty close to our ideal of a stable, feature-rich, build, we're not quite there yet. As such, there may unfortunately be some instability of save files between versions. This was originally a game jam game, so a lot of work is being put into making the code and systems at play more robust, so please bear with us~!
Credits:
| Elita, character artist | @WieldAdventure on Twitter |
| Autumn Greenley | @AutumnotopiaDev on Twitter |
| Joey | --- |
| Rose | --- |
| Steph | @Omnimouto on Twitter |
| Andrew Tran | @BearLovingNerd on Twitter |
| Zaozoruzhna, composer | @Zaozoruzhna on Twitter |
| Mortally Moonstruck Games | @MortalMoonGames on Twitter |
Soundfont Credits:
| "Thomas Hammer - HS Strings" ©2016 by Thomas Hammer as licensed under CC BY 4.0 |
| "Alex's GM Soundfont" ©2020 as liscensed under CC Attributed 3.0 Unported |
| "KBH Real and Swelling Choirs" ©2016 as liscensed under CC Attribution 4.0 International |
| "Orchestral Battery" ©2017 by E-mu Sound Central as liscensed under CC BY 4.0 |
| "Studio FG460s II Pro Guitar Pack" ©2017 by Mitrofanis George Gemitros as liscensed under CC BY 4.0 |
| "Choir MMMH Female" ©2017 by Xiaosu Du as liscensed under CC BY 4.0 |
Thanks to Eeve Somepx (itch | Twitter) for our main game font, Compass Pro!
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Development log
- Fresh From the Grave... The Death and Decay Update!2 days ago
- 0.22 Aesthetics Update26 days ago
- Final Game Jam Update & Development Roadmap!57 days ago
- 0.15 Children UpdateJul 05, 2022
Comments
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really great i love it, took me 4 days to finish the mushipedia
i recommend an ending list cause i really would like to see all the different path i could take
i enjoyed the designs of the mushroom girls
in summary it is very cool i enjoyed it
Thank you so much! I love this - it's so cute...!! We are actually implementing the ending collection for the Mushroom Almanac in the current update, so you can expect to see it in game at the end of the month.
oh sweet, just a curious question though. is the hostbody for the cordycep implied to be the recluse's old daughter? as it needed a bow of the daughter to get the lost sibling trait before it becomes found sibling, and the host body has a bow on it
That's an apt observation! There is more content coming related to the Cordyceps Girl exploring her nature a bit more, but you're right on the mark.
coolio
I tried the game and had some fun with it. The aesthetics and especially the music are really nice.
My first few runs went well. But eventually I got to the point where I kept getting only brown mushrooms and I have no Idea what went wrong compared to before. I think this game would benefit from having a guide, if only to get a better feel for how the game internally ticks and what it expects out of you.
Even for the random mid story events after growing up there should be some indicator for what stats are relevant for the event to succeed or fail and what stats have changed by the outcome. Especially when you start a run with a specific goal like slaying the beast at the end and it fails miserably I have no idea if I’ve made the wrong choices or if I simply didn’t get the right random events to raise the relevant stats. Does the game allow for a decent amount of player agency that simply requires some learning or is the game just a rougleilke where you have to put up with whatever the rng gives you?
I really like the game an I want to play it more but sometimes I feel that the game doesn’t like me back.
Thank you for the feedback!
Making the mechanics more clear is definitely one of our goals moving forward, and we appreciate knowing what feels unpredictable or confusing.
We'll also work on making it more obvious and easy to avoid getting a Little Brown Mushroom, but here's a hint for now - putting a little more focus into raising her mushroom stats in the growing phase may help her grow up healthier!
I just made an account here just to say how much I loved this game <3 it is just so cute and touching is one of my new favorites now. I can´t afford donating but I really would if I had the money! Thank you so much for making it!
Thanks for playing! We appreciate the kind words and are happy to hear you are enjoying the game!
I really really love this game! but I’ve run into an issue when I was playing I ended up with a “Fairy cake” mushroom but it doesn’t appear in my Almanac, is there a way to fix this problem? Edit: same problem with “Morel” mushroom
Hi, thanks for the kind comment!
You've happened across a couple of unusual mushrooms, where there is something about their nature you might not have discovered in game. To avoid spoiling the surprise, some mushrooms will not appear in the Mushroom Almanac until you've uncovered their secret...
Thank you for the clarification!
"titillating meal and titillating danger?" I thought i turned safe search on....
Made one of my drivers crash
Too much shroom
I love this game but struggle to chose "bad" options because i love the mushrooms too much lol
I love this game so much! However, no matter what options I pick and how good the mushrooms environment is they always become a Little Brown Mushroom. Am I doing something wrong? I'm 5 attempts in and haven't seen any variation, and each time I am sure to make very different choices!
Either way, I'm in love with the style and the interface and the music, the whole package really. Well done
Glad to hear you're enjoying the game!
Having a good environment and quality growing conditions are great for your mushroom, but it sounds like you might be giving your daughters too much. Your daughter needs more experiences to grow up into a healthy woman! Also - if you are running out of resources often, it may leave you with less time to raise her properly.
(More specifically: Little Brown Mushroom happens when your mushroom girl has particularly low stats... something Environment doesn't help with directly.)
hehe I suspected as much. Thank you for the help!!
Lovely Game! I love games with a lot of choices, and it feels like some of them do really impact quite a bit. I wish there was a way to see what I have to do to get some of the different people. I want to fill out the mushroompedia, but I just can't figure out other combinations. A hint system for that would be nice.
Great art and storytelling, you feel really connected to your mushroom.
Great feel and art - was a joy to explore. It's been a while since I played a game that felt like this, and had such wonder to it. Keep it up!
Thank you! It's been a lot of fun creating it!
I really love the game so far, but I keep running into this error screen :(
Oh dear! Thank you for the heads up, we've went in and fixed the error (specifically it should be fixed in version 0.16.1 I believe) owo
I loaded my save file and it seems to work perfectly now without any error screens! Thanks for such an awesome game!
Would poison hapless beast with own flesh again, 10/10.
This is a really cool game! I liked the way you create your daughter with your choices and the art is beautiful. Looking forward to any updates!
Thank you!! (ꈍᴗꈍ) We have lots of content and improvements planned for future updates.