Finding Frankie

Finding Frankie is a darkly stylized platform game that mixes cartoon aesthetics with horror-driven parkour challenges. Set in the strange world of a televised obstacle course, players must survive increasingly dangerous environments while avoiding bizarre and aggressive characters. What starts as a cheerful competition quickly becomes a fight for survival, wrapped in bright colors and unsettling smiles. The rules of the show are unclear—but failure clearly comes with consequences.

A Hidden Invitation and a Deadly Show

The game begins when the player’s character, an ordinary participant, finds a mysterious invitation hidden in a cereal box labeled by Frankie, the show’s strange mascot. Accepting the invite leads to a surreal arena filled with traps, animatronic hosts, and deadly parkour stages. The atmosphere blends game show absurdity with a lurking threat, as contestants slowly realize that each obstacle could be their last. Frankie and his co-host Henry Hotline may look silly, but their true roles are far more sinister.

Movement, Mechanics, and Companions

Finding Frankie features a wide range of parkour mechanics: players sprint across ledges, vault over rotating blades, wall-jump through tight corridors, and slide under electrified barriers. Success relies on timing and spatial awareness, with death only a single misstep away. Between runs, players are accompanied by Duck Assistant, a strange but helpful ally who offers light-based tools, comic relief, and environmental scanning features that reveal hidden paths or threats.

Exploration and Challenge Variety

Though the core of the game is obstacle-based parkour, Finding Frankie includes exploration zones like vents, backstage areas, and dimly lit tunnels beneath the main stages. These areas contain secrets, alternate exits, and narrative fragments that hint at what the show really is—and what happened to contestants before. The Palace of Frankie is a sprawling, layered environment that changes with progress, offering more complex paths and hostile surprises with each round.

Key features of Finding Frankie:

·         Fast-paced parkour stages with varied movement options

·         Disturbing cartoon-style hosts and twisted obstacle designs

·         A companion system with useful and bizarre helper abilities

·         Environmental storytelling through hidden paths and dark corners

·         Multiple challenge types across evolving, dangerous arenas

Finding Frankie delivers a blend of platformer intensity and psychological unease. With every stage more unpredictable than the last, and enemies that watch more than they chase, the game turns athletic skill into a desperate escape—where your only ally may be a talking duck, and your only goal is to live long enough to understand why the show exists.