The Baby In Yellow

The Baby In Yellow is a comedy horror game built on a simple babysitting structure that progressively unravels. Across 11 chapters you carry out increasingly mundane childcare duties — feed the baby, clean his diaper, read him a bedtime story, make a cheese toastie, put him to sleep — while the situation around you grows steadily more wrong.

The Lovecraftian framing is the game's name: the King in Yellow / Hastur mythology of Robert W. Chambers, transposed onto a babysitting job from hell. Whispers in your head tell you to obey. The baby is described as adorable, but the description doesn't quite match what the baby actually does when you turn around. Tricksy puzzles and chase sequences punctuate the routine.

Team Terrible's project originated as a 48-hour game jam entry and grew into a mobile phenomenon — over 140 million downloads — before this expanded Steam version. Trapped souls hidden across chapters unlock cheats like Big Head Mode. The story arcs across three acts and lands somewhere between dark comedy and genuine horror, depending on how seriously you take Hastur's appetites.