Current game status
Playable. Café shift, the street encounter with Pierrot, your first night at the circus.
OpenPlayable. Added the Jester, the Doctor and the Ticket Taker, plus the purple, cyan and blue tents.
OpenActive development. Café dialogue and branching choices are being reworked, Doctor sprites are next, and beta testing is being prepared. No release date.
OpenThe character routes and their endings are still being written. The build is labelled a prototype.
Status taken from the official itch.io page and devlog, last checked
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Full update historyDay 3: café dialogue reworked and beta testing prepared
The weekly update says all café dialogue was adjusted, the pacing of several scenes was polished, and choice logic that interfered with other branches was rebuilt. Doctor's sprites are next; Doctor and Jester scenes need extra asset work. In an AMA posted the same day, the developer said they were looking forward to getting the beta test out and checking that everything works properly. This is development and testing progress, not a release: itch.io still serves prototype v0.2 and lists no release date.
Official sourceOfficial merch and a plush partnership
Garula announced the first official The Freak Circus merchandise. A limited-run Pierrot plush was sold through GimmeSwag with orders closing July 30 (EST), and a new partnership with the studio 春醴记工作室 now carries official goods, with updates posted on their Rednote, Weibo and Douyin accounts.
Official sourcePopular questions
All questionsThe Freak Circus is name-your-own-price and free to play. The developer states that the itch.io page is the only official release page, and playing it there is the most direct way to support the work.
The Freak Circus
The game is free to play on the developer's own itch.io page — it runs straight in the browser, and there are downloads for Windows, macOS, Linux and Android. The developer asks that the game not be reposted elsewhere, so this is a link, not a copy.
Content warning: 18+. Blood, death, kidnapping, drugging and allusions to cannibalism.
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What players say
“The game is not even fully out yet, but I still find this my top favorite game ever if I'm being honest. The art is brilliantly done, the story is addicting, & my god the characters...”
“One of my first yandere games ever and i love it. The browser game format is so accessible and the HTML5 performance is smooth.”
“Que jogo incrível!! Havia muito tempo que não jogava um visual novel tão bom como esse! Surtava com cada palavra deles!”
“This game completely took me over. The characters have so much soul to them. Pierrot is literally the sweetest ever.”