My Child Lebensborn

My Child Lebensborn is a life simulation game based on true history. Players are placed in a post-World War II world and must choose to adopt one of two children with distinct personalities. Players not only need to understand their past and manage resources, but also help them gradually overcome their past traumas and start a new life. Players will spend enjoyable leisure time with their children, engaging in various fun mini-games and seasonal activities, gradually uncovering more of their secrets and stories. Besides spending time together, players will also need to work to earn resources to support their children. Ultimately, can you help them overcome their past traumas?

Features of My Child Lebensborn:

Education and Counter-Propaganda: Counteract the negative effects of Nazi propaganda by providing children with accurate information about the war, the Holocaust, and Nazi atrocities. Encourage critical thinking and empathy for the persecuted.

Addressing Discrimination: Helping children cope with discrimination and prejudice in society. Teach them resilience and confidence while advocating for their rights and dignity. Create a safe environment where they can openly express their emotions and discuss their experiences.

Develop identity and cultural connections: Explore your child’s heritage and culture to help them develop a strong sense of identity. Introduce them to Norwegian traditions, folklore and history. Encourage them to embrace their unique backgrounds and express their individuality.

Promote empathy and acceptance: Encourage children to empathize with those facing adversity, regardless of their background. Develop empathy and understanding of different cultures, religions and perspectives.

Ask for support: Don’t hesitate to ask for support from other characters in the game, such as neighbors, teachers, or local leaders. Work with them to create a support network for your child and address challenges together.

Highlights of My Child Lebensborn:

Choice driven parenting: Your dialogue choices and daily priorities influence the child’s emotions, personality, and worldview. You see consequences directly in facial expressions and body language, which helps you understand how each decision lands. Over time, responses to school, work, and home life build a consistent pattern that shapes the year ahead.

Narrative grounded in true events: The story draws from real Lebensborn experiences and shows a different side of the aftermath of war. You witness how a community’s bias impacts a child and caregiver at home, at school, and in public. This approach focuses on empathy and understanding through small moments rather than sensational scenes.

Remaster enhancements for a richer day to day: My Child Lebensborn includes the remaster’s shared activities and visual upgrades. You can cook simple recipes together, craft with pine cones, skip stones, and pick flowers during calmer moments. Journal entries are fuller, and the stylized graphics bring more nuance to expressions and settings.

Life simulation tasks with careful resource management: You earn money, cook meals, craft items, forage, and play, while balancing time and energy. Each action consumes limited resources, so planning the day matters. This loop supports the narrative by tying practical needs to emotional well being.

Adopt Klaus or Karin: You choose to care for Klaus or Karin and support them through a defining year. Their reactions to daily events differ, and your decisions guide how they cope with pressure and kindness. This choice helps you focus on one child’s path and read subtle changes over time.

Useful Tips of My Child Lebensborn:

I noticed there was no english guide so these tips will work for both the steam version and the versions on mobile. Please enjoy and I hope this helps.

When you start the game you are given the option to adopt Klaus or Karin, gameplay is exactly the same no matter which child you choose. The only difference between Klaus and Karin is what they look like, and what hairstyles/outfits are available for them. Good news for trans and non-binary players, the player character is not gendered in any way and is only referred to as a parent, not as a mother or father.

Mail: On some mornings you will receive mail, letters from people surrounding your child, or newspapers. The letters must be read that same day, but the newspapers are inconsequential and just add flavor text and historical context to the story. You can also send letters, you will be automatically guided when writing all letters. You can write your child's mother, their aunt, their father, the local religious leader, the factory, and the school.

Food: You must feed your child on a semi-regular basis or the child WILL eventually run away leading to an instant game over. Food can be found in the forest, fished for, or bought with money from the factory job. It is not necessary to purchase any of the more expensive foods, the child will complains about the oatmeal if it is served too often, but this will not cause an end game. Cooking all the different foods results in steam achievements. The more expensive foods will make the child happier, or fill the hunger bar faster, but not enough to be a massive difference. Making food with the child fills the child's affection bar, and fills time nicely when the child does not return home on time. Fishing and gathering often results in a couple steam achievements.

Bathing: You can wash the child's face once a day for a slight boost to their cleanliness stat without using a time slot. You can also change the child's hairstyle once you have purchased the comb. Baths will quickly fill the childs cleanliness stat. There is a point in game play where the child will refuse to be bathed for tw related reasons, the child will still allow you to wash their face. You can also change the child's clothes for a small cleanliness boost.

Play: The child will regularly ask to play at which time you can choose between drawing, going outside, playing hide and seek, or playing ball. These activities are technically pointless as the child's affection stat can be filled by petting their head. But your game experience will be fairly hollow if you never do any of these activities. Playing ball with the child 30 times results in a steam achievement.

Bedtime: The child will often give you the option to read to them. This will give them an affection boost. You do not have to, not doing so for the entire game will result in an achievement. Turn off the light by the child's bed to end the day.

Weekdays: Monday through Friday you'll need to send your child to school and go to work. You'll receive $70 for a workday. You can sometimes work overtime which gives you a small extra amount of money. This will result in your child's stats taking a hit and use up the rest of your time for the day. Your child may ask not to go to school, and you'll be able to skip work without penalty if asked to by your child. On Saturday, your child does not have school, on Sunday you do not have work and your child does not have school. Sunday is the only day you can access the forest and pond.

Player Comments of My Child Lebensborn:

I have never bought a game except for this one because I remember playing the lite version and it was really a very different game. The game is mainly about the story line with elements of taking care of your kid but there is something mysterious about the story and something fun, even though it is simple, about the game play of taking care of the kid. Not for the faint of heart.

I like the game's dialogue, storyline and attention to detail! The fact that raising a child requires not only positive feedback, but even negative feedback from the child makes this game more interactive. I honestly wish there's more to it though because i want to the next sequel for this game and i don't mind paying for it! Also almost forgot, when i start a new game with existing progress. The game suddenly doesn't allow me to interact with any time consuming action such as eating and shower.

This is the most poignant and wholesome game about raising the child of a German soldier conceived during the Nazi WW2 occupation I have ever played. It reminds me of a Telltale game, albeit with simpler graphics and more linear gameplay. If you think you'll like this game, you probably will, and even if you don't, you might. The guy who was complaining about it not being worth his $3... maybe it wasn't for him, but if $3 matters that much, he shouldn't be buying games anyway.

Love it, the game looks so realistic, but I can't help with...When me and my child have a conversation, the conversation moves on to something totally different from what I had picked, so I wish the response from the child was as different, meaning, my child had not gone to school for 2 days but then the next day, the kind teacher had said she missed school for 3 days...so I hope it fixes just a little, but overall it's an amazing game.

Final Verdict:

All these elements combined make My Child Lebensborn a heartfelt parenting sim that challenges you emotionally while teaching lessons about kindness and resilience. It’s a rare game that treats difficult topics with respect, creating an experience that’s as educational as it is moving.