Bye Sweet Carole Review: A Haunting Hand-Drawn Horror Adventure on Nintendo Switch and PS5

Author: ScreenPlayDaily | Published: 12/03/2025 | min read

‍‌‍‍Bye​‍​‌‍​‍‌​‍​‌‍​‍‌ Sweet Carole is a narrative-horror adventure game developed by Little Sewing Machine, which was founded by Chris Darril, the creator of the Remothered series. The game was published by Maximum Entertainment and released on October 9, 2025, for PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, PC, and Xbox Series X|S.In this game, the players are given control over Lana Benton, a young orphan. She escapes the bleak Bunny Hall orphanage and goes to the enchanting kingdom of Corolla in search of her missing friend, Carole Simmons. The game features a combination of the classic point-and-click adventure with 2D platforming and stealth. It is a love letter to the very first Disney animations of the last century, which turns the enchanting world of fairy-tales into a tale of terror and ​‍​‌‍​‍‌​‍​‌‍​‍‌revelation.

Bye Sweet Carole Review: A Haunting Hand-Drawn Horror Adventure on Nintendo Switch and PS5

The​‍​‌‍​‍‌​‍​‌‍​‍‌ game achieves its lovely hand-drawn animation to great effect. It has very fluid character movements and lovely backgrounds that evoke the old animated movies such as Snow White. Cheerful colors transition to dark, eerie figures, thus indicating the change of the past bright memories into the scary ones.The orchestral score of Luca Balboni is filled with scary tunes that really jumps, and the touching reveal, is greatly helped by it. The terrific voice acting, in particular, Elsie Lovelock as Lana, goes a long way in bringing the characters' interaction in the stories to life in the cutscenes. The narrative deals with such heavy issues as the loss of a loved one, bullying, loneliness, and the suffragette movement, to which it responds with an unexpected profundity, especially in its later episodes. It, in fact, forms a very intimate personal coming-of-age story which is still with you after the game has ​‍​‌‍​‍‌​‍​‌‍​‍‌finished.