{"id":51890,"date":"2025-09-11T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=51890"},"modified":"2025-09-11T13:12:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T04:12:36","slug":"in-this-game-you-become-a-boy-who-thinks-hes-an-ancient-megalithic-tomb-and-sets-out-to-find-a-dead-body-to-bury-inside-of-himself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/in-this-game-you-become-a-boy-who-thinks-hes-an-ancient-megalithic-tomb-and-sets-out-to-find-a-dead-body-to-bury-inside-of-himself\/","title":{"rendered":"In this game, you become a boy who thinks he\u2019s an ancient megalithic tomb and sets out to find a dead body to bury inside of himself\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Japanese indie games have a way of <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/indie-horror-saeko-giantess-dating-sim-gets-very-positive-rating-on-steam-after-selling-10000-copies-in-its-first-week\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">making the strangest and most macabre things look cute<\/a>. Released on September 10 on Steam, <strong>The Little Tomb: The Maholova Club and the Search for a Dead Body<\/strong> falls right under this category. The 3D exploration game puts you in the shoes of Kofun, a young boy whose peculiar key-hole shape leads him to believe he is, in fact, an ancient Japanese tomb (as is the literal translation of his name). With his self-appointed identity, Kofun is on the lookout for a body to bury inside of himself.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Disclosure:<\/strong><strong> The publisher PLAYISM is part of Active Gaming Media,<\/strong><strong> the owner of this website.<\/strong><strong><\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Little Tomb: The Maholova Cluband the Search for a Dead Body | Release Date Announcement PV\" width=\"1160\" height=\"653\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8sLulDCcdzE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As Kofun, you start the game within the confines of a park playground. Too scared to leave the safety of the park, you soon run into Haniwa, an energetic clay sculpture boy who is eager to show Kofun the outside world. Apart from Haniwa, Kofun will run into several characters who will aid him on his journey. There\u2019s Specs, a bespectacled sculpture boy who loves archeology, Mr. Pipe, an elder who spends his time excavating a nearby dig site, and Ms. Curator, a human who works at the local museum and is an expert on ancient tombs.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Little Tomb is fully voiced and features the talents of Akari Kito (who voices Nezuko Kamado in Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba) as Kofun and Yuka Nukui (Airi Yamamoto in Back Street Girls, Noelle in Kizuna no Allele) as Haniwa.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1429\" height=\"805\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1429px) 100vw, 1429px\" src=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250911-51890-header-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-51894\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250911-51890-header-1.jpg 1429w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250911-51890-header-1-380x214.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250911-51890-header-1-768x433.jpg 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Gameplay-wise, The Little Tomb has you exploring several locations and interacting with different objects. While Kofun\u2019s to-do list gives you tasks to complete to progress the main story, you are free to explore the world as you see fit. Interacting with something for the first time awards you with Action Points, which you can use to acquire new skills (such as curling up into a ball and rolling down the streets); as well as hints regarding your tasks.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Little Tomb: The Maholova Club and the Search for a Dead Body is out now on PC (<a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/3218790\/The_Little_Tomb_The_Maholova_Club_and_the_Search_for_a_Dead_Body\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Steam<\/a>).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese indie games have a way of making the strangest and most macabre things look cute. Released on September 10 on Steam, The Little Tomb: The Maholova Club and the Search for a Dead Body falls right under this category. The 3D exploration game puts you in the shoes of Kofun, a young boy whose peculiar key-hole shape leads him to believe he is, in fact, an ancient Japanese tomb (as is the literal translation of his name). With his self-appointed identity, Kofun is on the lookout for a body to bury inside of himself.\u00a0 Disclosure: The publisher PLAYISM is part of Active Gaming Media, the owner of this website.&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":51893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,3],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-51890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indie-games","category-news","tag-japan-related-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>In this game, you become a boy who thinks he\u2019s an ancient megalithic tomb and sets out to find a dead body to bury inside of himself\u00a0 - AUTOMATON WEST<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Little Tomb: The Maholova Club and the Search for a Dead Body is a new Japanese indie game with an unusual premise.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/in-this-game-you-become-a-boy-who-thinks-hes-an-ancient-megalithic-tomb-and-sets-out-to-find-a-dead-body-to-bury-inside-of-himself\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"In this game, you become a boy who thinks he\u2019s an ancient megalithic tomb and sets out to find a dead body to bury inside of himself\u00a0 - 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