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Kanashi Studio · Published by Carlos Julian Lopez Garcia · Official site ↗
Content notice: This game contains gore scenes.
Very Positive — 80% positive (61 reviews) · 11 achievements
Last updated 27 Sept 2026
MITE is a horror game, with some difficulty, in which you play a hiker who has lost his family in a cursed forest... find your family and escape, while strange creatures from Japanese folklore chase you, orient yourself .
Action, Indie, Free To Play · 2023 · More free games
Embark on a tense survival journey as you navigate the eerie woods in MITE - Terror in the Forest. With challenging gameplay and mythical foes, find your way back to safety while Kanashi Studio guides your haunted expedition.
About this game
MITE is a third-person horror game, which makes use of Japanese folklore and a popular history of the regions... live the terror of being chased at night in the most haunted forest in the region, by a strange yokai who It haunts you when you stop looking at it.

Chapter 1:
A hiker who has lost his wife and son in one of the most enchanted forests in the region, a forest where one should not be at night, must find his partner and son... while being chased by a strange creature that catches it. get closer little by little while you stop looking at him... more and more speed, don't fall while you walk... because if you stop looking at him... maybe when you get up you will find him face to face, run away from the forest with your family and try not to return to him.
(Not available) Chapter 2:
In chapter two, MITE will be the hunted, and Taki, a priest and two policemen will go after him, will they finish off MITE?

- Fear: Experience the terror of walking in a forest with spirits and Japanese yokais.
- Exploration: Wander through the forest, walking carefully and trying not to stop looking at the strange spirit for a long time... or it will approach you.
- Genre: This game is from the Horror-Narrative genre, designed for horror movie lovers.
- Orientation: In a forest and without a compass, the most difficult thing is to find your way around, make it on your own, your family is waiting for you.
- No saving: This game is made to be passed in the same game, due to its simplicity, but it will not be an easy task.

Our studio specializes in scary games, and we often use Japanese folklore and mythology as a source of inspiration.
At Kanashi Studio we study the price, and we set an affordable one for all players, "giving is receiving".

System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- OS: 7
- Processor: Intel 5
- Memory: 6 GB RAM
- Graphics: 1GB
- Storage: 2 GB available space
Recommended
- OS: 10
- Processor: Ryzen 3
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: 4GB
- Storage: 4 GB available space
Supported Languages
*languages with full audio support
Latest news
AnnouncementsOfficial
Optimization fixes
Optimization fixes 1,024=>512 Remove Unused VFX remove water shaderRead full article on Community Announcements (Kanashi Studio)AnnouncementsOfficial
¡MITE! We released the full version!
New: Updated AI system, now the AI can push you. New AI, adds different types of AI, with which to interact. New collection system along with your own achievement, collect the items to earn "The Collector" achievement. New more immersive sounds and now 3D audio. New arrow system, collect wood and ropes, to create arrows and guide you in the forest... New interactive paths. New decoration to accompany the player. Changes in the creatures, we remove old creatures and add new ones, to control and improve the environment. Adjustments in flashlight light, visual improvements. New optimization settings on small objects. Changes in achievements. Kanashi: We have updated many things, to improve the experience in the forest, it is not an easy game to pass, I challenge you to it. Chapter 1 is an intro, and it's done, once you get chapter 1 you get all the others for free in one update. We want to thank the people who tried, tried, tried MITE in Early Access and the people who download it now. Thank you so much!Read full article on Community Announcements (Kanashi Studio)Patch NotesOfficial
Update 1.3
Three new creatures. Adjustments in the scares, now the illusion effect is activated. New help kinematics. New settings in the flashlight. Physics in MITE, in the menu. New sounds. Information: We are improving and updating this introductory chapter quite often to deliver the best final product, chapter one is an introduction to the second. Chapter 2 Information: Chapter two is planned for March-April, it is a longer chapter and we plan to release it together with the full version of MITE, without paying anything else, it will be an update (2.0). Web: https://www.kanashi.site/ Discord: https://discord.com/invite/bDHMaxj4waRead full article on Community Announcements (Kanashi Studio)Patch NotesOfficial
Update 1.1
Changes in the mechanics of scares. We added newspapers on the map. New creature. Fixed pause bug, sounds now stop. We set the final time, to give time to read the end and we added a background. Added group of creatures. Small fixes and corrections. I want to thank you for testing this game in Early Access, thanks to this, we can improve before its release. I'm just a developer, so any review is welcome, if it's positive you'll brighten the life of a small developer who lives on an island, Tenerife. Thank you so much! There is still a lot of content missing, which we will be uploading throughout this week, more creatures...! DiscordRead full article on Community Announcements (Kanashi Studio)Community & EventsOfficial
Let's make our community!
Every game needs a community, in addition to having players. We start a new one, on Discord, for our Horror games, and to talk about other games too, of the same genre. You will be able to have access to new information, beta access to other games, beta access to new updates... and benefit from other extras for the community. It's all win win! ːsteamhappyː DiscordRead full article on Community Announcements (Kanashi Studio)






