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The Book of Unwritten Tales

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The Book of Unwritten Tales

Apr 2, 2009

Main game

3.67 average rating based on 132 ratings

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The game challenges the player with a series of puzzles and brain teasers presented as a traditional point and click adventure game. The puzzles are embedded in an adventure story that will take most players an average of twenty hours to complete. There are 60 locations to explore with a total of 40 non-player characters and about 250 interactible items. A notable feature of The Book of Unwritten Tales is that the player takes control of four different characters. In some scenes it is possible to switch between two or three active characters. Making explicit use of this mechanic some … More
The game challenges the player with a series of puzzles and brain teasers presented as a traditional point and click adventure game. The puzzles are embedded in an adventure story that will take most players an average of twenty hours to complete. There are 60 locations to explore with a total of 40 non-player characters and about 250 interactible items. A notable feature of The Book of Unwritten Tales is that the player takes control of four different characters. In some scenes it is possible to switch between two or three active characters. Making explicit use of this mechanic some puzzles require the playable characters to exchange items or otherwise cooperate. Less
Release Dates
Apr 02, 2009 (Worldwide)
Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows)
Oct 28, 2011 (Worldwide)
Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows)
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User Stats
924
In Collection
56
Wish Listed
11
Playing
568
Backlogged
How Long Is The Book of Unwritten Tales?
Main story: 13.3 hours
100% completion: 13.8 hours
Total completions: 9
itamar
itamar gave Jun 22, 2024
itamar gave Jun 22, 2024
Neat old-school game, but buggy
This review is for the PC (Microsoft Windows) version

I actually quite enjoyed this game. A very traditional (although 3D) point and click adventure, with nice writing and interesting puzzles. Up until the third chapter I mostly struggled with the way some items were hidden in the scenery and required pixel-hunting to find, but then I hit a bug which made progress impossible, compounded by the single auto-save system, that managed to capture the buggy state.

Bot having any saves for hours back, I abandoned the game in a sour mood. Had I known this game would be so old-school I'd have manually saved every 10 minutes.

spookybarn
spookybarn gave May 22, 2013
spookybarn gave May 22, 2013
spookybarn's review of The Book of Unwritten Tales

Very funny. Creative and logical puzzles. Surprisingly lengthy. A great adventure game that would fit right in with the glory days of LucasArts.

peter
peter updated their status Mar 19, 2013
peter updated their status Mar 19, 2013

Played about an hour of this on a whim last night.