Mushroom Musume
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android
Once upon a time, there was a lonesome Recluse, plagued with the desire to raise a child. Wandering nearby, the strange Witch of the Woods overheard this wish, and with a twisted humor gifted them a pot of dirt. Help guide the Recluse through the maze of fungal parenthood, then discover how many types of person (mushroom?) your Daughter can become!
When one Daughter falls, start over and discover new corners of the world... and a treasure trove of secrets and unlockables!
Raising a child is hard, raising a mushroom is no easier. Any little thing you do can change your Daughter's path in life - will she grow into a pretty little Fly Agaric or an uncanny and indomitable Cordyceps? A parent's role is key, so take it seriously... or perhaps you'd rather relax. There's always next time, after all!
The world of Mushroom Musume is fun and unusual, full of whimsical moments and unexpected dark corners. Discover shocking new outcomes and twists in familiar events by playing again as a different Daughter. Choose alternate paths, and gain a more complete picture of this odd world. Perhaps even spend time in a tale-within-a-tale and see the world through (slightly less) fungal-colored glasses...
You can find almost any color in fungi, and that's true of your Daughter too. Collect memories of Daughters past, colors, music, and more in your own personal Mushroom Almanac. With tons of treats to discover, foraging for everything could take years!
Mushroom Musume is filled with...
- 180,000+ words of story
- Hundreds of photographs and illustrations
- Over two hours of beautiful and haunting music
...So please, take a seat and enjoy your time spent as a mycological parent!
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~!
Notice a bug? Submit it to us through Google Forms!
~ 🖤🪦 Oh ruinous day!... The Crumbling Foundations Update is out now! ~
After six months of polish, we're proud to announce a new update featuring doomed daughters, cruelty, and revenge (oh, what fun!)... Discover two new types of mushroom, enjoy a fully redesigned Almanac (plus other fun UI improvements), and explore 30,000 words of new events, stories, secrets, and final challenges! (Not to mention eight grooving new music tracks~)
Click to Expand Credits!
| Elita, character artist | @WieldAdventure on Twitter |
| Autumn Greenley | Autumnotopia on Cohost |
| Joey | --- |
| Rose | --- |
| Steph, photographer | @girlpoisoner 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 |
Thanks to Eeve Somepx (itch | Twitter) for our main game font, Compass Pro!
Steam, Twitter, and Tumblr icon by Icons8
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Development log
- Check Out Mushroom Musume at Steam Next Fest!38 days ago
- 🪰 Bug Fixes and UI Adjustments, Oh My!May 15, 2024
- 🖤🪦 Oh ruinous day!... The Crumbling Foundations Update is out now!Dec 05, 2023
- Full Steam Ahead! 🚂Oct 23, 2023
- 🎃 A Trailer, Queer Halloween Stories Bonus, and More!Oct 01, 2023
- Bugs in the Dark 🐛🪦 The Revenger's Story Has Been UpdatedAug 29, 2023
- Back to Basics! 💎 The Foundations Update is Out Now!Jun 09, 2023
- A Fungal Year in ReviewJun 01, 2023
Comments
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Hiiii, hello! Recently discovered this game! It's really, really cute! I've been enjoying my time with it thus far...
I was curious if y'all have a projected price point for the full release? If possible, I would like to know so I can put the money aside until it's out!
If you do not have, or do not want to give, a projected price point, that's fine! Keep up the good work regardless〜.
I had two quick questions!
1. The post-ending mentioned being able to play mini-games and use "spores" for mystery items between playthroughs... I couldn't seem to find an option to open mini-games, or to spend spores, is this implemented yet? If so, how do you access these?
2. Where do you find the "whisper" passwords?
What a wonderful, well-thought-out, captivating game! The creator really took care to make an interesting, fun, and re-playable game. The choices and dialogue are well-written, and I really appreciated the priority for fun they put into it!
I spent so much time having fun with the different combinations of intro choices possible, & seeing how they affected your characters looks/personality. Things like making an obscene wish being possible, but not at all easy, just super fun! I highly recommend this game!
I don't know how to explain how much this game meant to me at the time. It really helped me a lot at a time in my life where I was accumulating too much stress. Finding out that you have received an update fills me with excitement.
It is a beautiful game with a very well done setting and I really recommend it if you want something refreshing or to relax for a while.
this is one of my favourite games ever. its seriously insane how much gameplay and storytelling they managed to put into one game, also just beautiful to playthrough
i love this game and i'm looking forward to the steam release so much. there are a few mushroom types i'm struggling to get, but i've gotten a bunch
It feel hard to believe sometimes for such quality game to be free
on my hands and knees we need a guide. I need to fill this thing and I dont know how to do half of these
A simply wonderful game, I love my mushroom daughters very much
Is this version i can download here and the demo on steam the same thing?
Correct! This game started out as a Game Jam game back in 2022, and has been hosted here since. Now with the game where it's at, we continue to host it here and as a demo on Steam.
When the full release drops on Steam, it will also drop here on Itch for all the lovely folks who use this platform.
Hope that helps, enjoy playing!
~Zaozy
This is a brilliant game. I've played it, like, a hundred times, and even when I get the same endings, I enjoy it.
I'm wondering if there's a place where I could talk to other people about this game. It's so in-depth that I doubt I'll ever get all the endings, and there's so much lore to discover that I doubt I can do it by myself!
Hello, thank you for enjoying the game! There are a couple unofficial discord communities that you can find through the r/mushroommusume subreddit, if you have any interest. Cheers!
~zaozy
my brown mushroom daughter got a glow up and successfully romanced the doomed woman, 11/10 game
this is such an adorable game and i love the demo so much
I got a potato girl. This is outside the scope of the game, and i will now go back in time to make it sure this game never exists. :p
But more seriously, i love this little game. I am glad to hear the full version is going to be even better as basic gameplay loop.
I gambled my mushroom daughter to a dice roll with a trickster fairy. Turns out, I'm SUCH a good father, I rolled a 10 and got to keep her. I then suffered an immediate death after washing off her parasites. 10/10. Would parent again.
SOMEONE PLS TELL ME HOW TO GET THE ROMANCE WITH THE GIRL FROM OUT OF THIS WORLD NO MATTER WHAT I TRY SHE ALWAYS DECLINES STAYING FOR LONGER T_T
I haven't got it yet, but i think you have to have a poor relationship with your parent. Or they must be dead and you alive somehow.
And then "invite" her to the Gala, and chose the right options to stay with her.
sorry for not being clear but i meant the copper alien girl
so cute!!! I loved this, and couldn't believe it was just a demo! cant wait for the full version! extremely worth it
I actually started crying because I accidentally made a really beautiful story through the playthrough:
My daughter, Gray, ended up with a thirst for blood and infested with parasites. But even still, she fell in love with the Violet mushroom woman she met later... Their relationship was so sweet, and I felt myself feeling a sense of hope for the future. I’m genuinely happy for this little character, and in such a short amount of time... Wonderful game! Can’t wait for the full release
is there any way to recover from doomed 🤔
i'm pretty sure i've never commented on this website before but I HAVE TO SAY THIS!!!!
i am in ABSOLUTE LOVE with this game!!!! i am obsessed with this. i stayed up a whole night just playing this and enjoying literally every part of it. i never knew this was a genre i needed but GOSH DARNIT i'm going to be thinking about this game for weeks, if not months,,,,
absolutely hyped for future updates and features!!!! i wish i had discovered this sooner, i'm probably going to draw my fungal daughters in the future. i don't know what else to say except this game must be some kind of parasitic cordyceps because it has infected and overtaken control of me
soo cute! but also creepy, in a good way. I feel bad for the brown mushrooms, their so cute! they dont deserve to be called underdeveloped. I have no idea what I did that made my girl not develop.
IF YOU GET SHELL SHOCK AND GO BE A WRESTLER THE KAPPA **SHOWS UP AND THROWS JIM OUT OF THE RING** HOLY SHIT IT WAS A HUGE TWIST I LOVED EVERY SECOND OF IT ESPECIALLY THE SONG MY GOD GOOD JOB MAN
i am so in love w/ and so inspired by this game. actually frothing at the mouf for its full release!!
This is genuinely one of the best games I have ever played, I adore it way too much. The writing is amazing and hilarious, the art and music are beautiful, and I can't even begin to describe how good the gameplay is.
Long story short, I love this game and now have a crippling addiction to playing it.
The game seems to not be saving my progress on pc. Is there a fix for this?
Hi! Having encountered exceptions that stop be being able to get past the load screen for the android ver, I decided to give the windows version a go - is it intentional that the windows version doesn't have access to the same features the android one does?
On the plus side this lil hiccup did spur me into wishlisting on steam finally, so there's that! I love my mushy lil lassies and when the game is closer to release I'm gonna be hollering about it <3
(Also, thank you for playing and letting us know something was up! 💖)
Oops! It looks like the tech we were using for some new additions was breaking the Android version -- we just released a new build now that shouldn't crash on startup.
We accidentally released some of the features we were working on for the full release in a recent Android version, so you may have seen some of those previously! We removed them (for now) so we can finish them up! Consider it a lil sneak peak hehe
I've probably commented before, but I absolutely adore this game. I started playing again today and went from being confused about "purple??" to be confused about the fact i grew a potato. Regardless I love my potato.
I am absolutely adoring the game, I'm pretty sure I had a shiver go up my spine when I was reading throug the Cordyceps' spawning event, then I got the potato a few runs later and burst out laughing at the sheer confusion of everyone involved.
Hope the development is going smoothly, can barely wait for the full launch.
(spoilers below)
Hey! Absolutely love the game, just small question: how do you get the recluse's stamina to be higher than 8 ? When trying to get one of the (new?) endings "The Recluse's big night out" I think I need to dance but with stamina 8 I end up failing and in the end I only get "After all this time" as an ending. Does anyone have a solution to that, or if I'm doing something wrong please tell me ;-;
Otherwise, great game, so cute I looove playing it and I love the new updates added !!!
I know one of the ways is to bet a finger in the Gambling Fairy's encounter, it gets you 4 points if you win.
You do need more than 8 points though, I think you need it to be at or above 12.
Thanks!!! I'll try it and tell you if it worked :)
It worked :) seems like you need exactly 12 or more lol! Also I found something else for stamina: if your garden is like ruined you are asked if you want to start over or not, and if you choose not to you gain 4 extra stamina lol. Anyways thanks!
My baby disintegrated into mold on my first run. 10/10
You talking about the "Can't Keep it Together" ending or is this related to the "Molding" trait?
Oh my! That's an interesting thing to encounter... That section of the game is a work in progress and shouldn't be available through normal means. Just curious, how did you get to the garden?
The Witch Hut and the Garden are both accessible for me on the latest Android release. I get the same [exception] when starting from Slo-Grow, but selecting [Ignore] on the bottom left allowed me to continue to the game.
I recently downloaded the Steam demo, and can confirm that the [Wishlist Mushroom Musume on Steam today!] banner is in the same place on PC that the Witch Hut is on mobile.
👀 uhhh well oops! I managed to totally miss that, thanks for letting us know. I'm going to patch that out now haha
(Consider that a behind-the-scenes sneak peak I guess!)
Egads! But what of my fenced-in 7x7 plot of stumps?
But I kid. I've truly enjoyed everything about this game you've made so far. Something about it is so melancholically enthralling.
could someone explain to me a guide of how to get romance? i keep meeting random girls but dont know how to find them again! eg, the nerd girl near mushys house and that random alien lady
I think you can only romance them if you meet them before you pick an aspiration. For most you just have to pick the gala option. The girl who’s after Cupid is her own thing though.
For most it's just meeting them before choosing your aspirations in winter, choosing to go to the gala and then choosing them as your partner.
The nerd girl has her own aspiration where you help her with hunting down Cupid.
Does anyone know how to get the two star poison type mushrooms? or can share a photo of what they look like
Only poisonous 2-star I've got so far is the Flame Coral. I think what you need to do is prioritise Robustness and the poison-related choices (the ones marked with the emblem that's under the "21" on the pic)
Not really sure though, only got her twice.
Please, how do I get the last 0 star mushroom-
I've unlocked literally every other thing in the game-
I actually dreamed about unlocking her this morning omg
lesbians and mushrooms best combo 💯💯💯 love this game!
HEY WHAT THE FUCK IS UP WITH MY KID
It's a mushroom, congratulations.
The poor kid is malnourished
idk why but the game not run. aaaaaahhhh * explotion*
no se por que pero el juego no corre. AAAAAHHH *explota*
I'm sorry to hear that! Maybe we can help... What operating system are you on, and does the game give any kind of error when you try to open it?
Cool game! But i do have a problem with it, when i downloaded it the "read me" folder was empty! I have no idea if there were any important things written on it.
FINISH THIS FUCKING GAME SO I CAN THROW A LOT OF MONEY AT YOU ALREADY!
Now seriously. With more content, and polish this game that ALREADY IS REALLY FUCK*NG GOOD IT COULD BECOME SO SO INCLEDYBLE
You guys are great at what you do! Please keep going! You have gold in your hands
(Also... If it isn't to much to ask.... More lesbic romance options with more kisses pretty please...)