Fran Bow sold 10,000 copies in its first month.[1] The game received a score of 70/100 on reviews aggregation website Metacritic indicating a mixed response.[2] Adam Smith, writing at Rock, Paper, Shotgun, gave the game a positive review, describing it as a game that "sits alongside Wonderland and Oz – imaginative, strange, unsettling, intelligent and charged with a rare and beautiful sense of hope".