It released for Linux, macOS, and Windows on September 18, 2019, for Android and iOS on February 13, 2020, and for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch on May 29, 2020.

Set in the same universe as Fran Bow,[4] the game's titular character is Misfortune, an eight-year-old girl with a childlike naivety and a dark sense of humor.

Despite its initial child-friendly introduction, Misfortune quickly finds herself exposing or being exposed to numerous elements of shock humor, including death, alcoholism, substance abuse, suicide, nudity, profanity, grave robbery, strip clubs, demons, traffic collisions, cruelty to animals, and the grim reaper.

Set in 1993,[a] eight-year-old Misfortune Ramirez Hernandez lives a sad, lonely life with her abusive parents on the outskirts of the fictional town of Openfields, Sweden.

Following his prompts, Misfortune is guided through the streets of Openfields, encountering an anthropomorphic fox, whom she calls Benjamin, several times, who flees when she gets too close.

"[citation needed] Rock, Paper, Shotgun gave the game a mixed review, saying "some topics, like abuse, underpin the entire narrative and broadly work to give it a grounding in true unpleasantness.

"[2] Kotaku gave the game a more positive review, saying "While Little Misfortune's adventure isn't long (it took me about 2.5 hours to emerge from the other side), it is very meaningful.

While Misfortune breezes and bluffs her way past the darker parts of her story, including a journey through a racy hamster nightclub, players will be all too aware of the sinister world that she dances in.

Little Misfortune continues along the same grim path Killmonday Games started on with Fran Bow, so if you're into the mix of the cute and the macabre, this one is for you.