The Bad Kids

About

The Bad Kids casts you as Zhu Chaoyang, a junior-high student trapped in a spiraling nightmare of fractured relationships and moral decay. Navigate a crumbling household and toxic friendships while solving environmental puzzles and piecing together cryptic clues. The gameplay leans into quiet tension, using exploration and logic to figure out layers of personal and societal rot. Dialogue and environmental storytelling push the narrative forward, letting you shape outcomes through choices that test your grip on empathy. The game’s sharpest edge is its unflinching portrayal of adult-world cruelty through a child’s eyes. With no combat or action set pieces, it leans into psychological unease and moral ambiguity. Community feedback highlights its stark atmosphere and branching endings, which force you to confront whether kindness can survive in a world designed to erase it. Released in January 2023, it’s a tense, narrative-driven experience for PC players seeking something unsettling yet introspective.

Storyline

You will play the part of Zhu Chaoyang, experience an unimaginable nightmare for ordinary junior-high students, and face the deep fear in your heart. Deteriorated family, false friendship, greedy and selfish human nature, the game shows the coldness and cruelty of the adult world incisively and vividly from the perspective of a child. Can Zhu Chaoyang remain in innocent and kind after being soaked in darkness? You will uncover the ending by your own.