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A free horror adventure from a Japanese developer, where the hospital has become another world.

Per its Steam store page, MIGAKAMIKAGAMI -reviver- is a 2D pixel-art escape adventure of horror in which two girls, Nae and Mika, find the hospital where Nae was admitted after a bus accident (Mika has come to visit her) turned eerie. AUTOMATON Japan describes it as exploring a hospital where monsters roam. The maker is Rim, listed as both developer and publisher on Steam. Japanese development rests on the Steam store page (Japanese is the only supported language, with links to a personal site and the developer's X account) and on Denfaminico Gamer, which calls the maker an individual game developer and cites Rim's own X posts about the remake. It is a remake of the original MIGAKAMIKAGAMI, a free game distributed on Furiimu! in 2015 that won the Gold Prize in the escape adventure category of the 11th Furiimu! Game Contest (per Denfaminico Gamer); the Steam version adds an EXTRA story and 2 endings and is a separate version. It was released on July 31, 2025, is free and not in Early Access. It is Very Positive with 52 of 53 reviews positive, about 98 percent; 34 are Japanese and 2 English. Steam supports Japanese only. Steam's content descriptor ID is 5 (General Mature Content) with no notes. There is no AI disclosure. Denfaminico Gamer and AUTOMATON Japan have covered it, so it is not undiscovered in Japan, but it has barely reached English speakers.

Published 2026-08-24

01First, the one feeling

02Who this is for (and who it is not)

For you

  • You want the taste of Ib, an ordinary place turning into another world that you escape by exploring and solving, in the form of a 2D pixel-art horror adventure about two girls in a hospital, made by an individual Japanese developer
  • You want something free with a track record: it began as a free game on Furiimu! in 2015, and 52 of its 53 Steam reviews are positive
  • You want to dig up something that has barely reached English speakers: 34 of its 53 reviews are Japanese and only 2 are English

Not for you

  • You need English: Steam supports Japanese only, and English is not supported
  • You want a verdict backed by many reviews, or one that reaches beyond Japanese readers: the total is only 53 reviews, and the largest group, 34, is Japanese

03The roots of this taste

98% positiveonly 53 reviewsno English support yet — yet almost no one has found it

MIGAKAMIKAGAMI -reviver- Buried gem

Per its Steam store page, MIGAKAMIKAGAMI -reviver- is a 2D pixel-art escape adventure of horror in which two girls, Nae and Mika, find the hospital where Nae was admitted after a bus accident (Mika has come to visit her) turned into an eerie other world. AUTOMATON Japan describes it as exploring a hospital where monsters roam. The Steam version adds an EXTRA story and 2 endings to the original. The maker is Rim, listed as both developer and publisher on Steam. Japanese development rests on the Steam store page (Japanese is the only supported language, and it links to a personal site and to the developer's X account @RimMirror1) and on Denfaminico Gamer (news.denfaminicogamer.jp/news/240902j), which calls the maker an individual game developer, Mr. Rim, and cites Rim's own X posts saying the remake had been in the works and that the original story was kept while the volume was made roughly three times larger. The Steam version was released on July 31, 2025 and is free (Free To Play, not Early Access). It is a remake of the original MIGAKAMIKAGAMI, a free game distributed on Furiimu! in 2015 that won the Gold Prize in the escape adventure category of the 11th Furiimu! Game Contest (per Denfaminico Gamer); the original and this game are separate versions. It is Very Positive on Steam: 52 of 53 reviews are positive, about 98 percent. By language, 34 are Japanese, 10 Simplified Chinese, 4 Korean, 2 English, 0 Traditional Chinese and 3 other, so Japanese is the largest group. Steam supports Japanese only and does not support English. Steam's content descriptor ID is 5 (General Mature Content) with no notes, and the Mature Content Description is the standard boilerplate; the required age is 0. There is no AI disclosure on Steam. This is not an undiscovered title in Japan: Denfaminico Gamer reported the remake's announcement in September 2024, and AUTOMATON Japan ran an announcement of the release. It has barely reached English speakers, with only 2 English reviews.

Give it your first pass

Ib The origin

The origin of this taste: Ib, a Japanese indie horror adventure that the individual developer kouri released in 2012 as a free RPG Maker 2000 work and that PLAYISM brought out as a commercial remake in 2022. An ordinary outing, a visit to an art museum, turns into a surreal nightmare, and you explore, examine things and run from enemies to survive. The link to MIGAKAMIKAGAMI -reviver- is this site's own reading, not a claim by the developer: no review or developer statement naming Ib was found. What the two share is the shape: an ordinary place, here a hospital, turns into another world, and you get out by exploring and solving puzzles. They also share an origin: Ib began as a free work and later got a commercial remake, and the original MIGAKAMIKAGAMI was a free game on Furiimu! in 2015 that now has a Steam remake from 2025. Where they differ: this game is a 2D pixel-art escape adventure about Nae, hospitalized after a bus accident, and Mika, who has come to visit her, with monsters that roam, an EXTRA story and 2 endings added in the Steam version, and it is free and Japanese only.

Give it your first pass

04Make this gem shine

If it speaks to you, check it on Steam and give it your first pass. Your push is what makes a buried gem shine.

See it on Steam

05The bloodline of this taste