The Book of Unwritten Tales (2009)

King Art

Mac · PC (Microsoft Windows)

3.67 from 132 ratings

926 members have it in their collection · 11 playing now · 569 backlogged · 55 wish listed

How long? Main story 13h · 100% 15h (from 9 logged playthroughs)

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. … Read 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. Read less
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Details

Developers
King Art
Publishers
HMH Interactive
Genres
Adventure, Point-and-click
Themes
Comedy, Fantasy
Series
The Book of Unwritten Tales
Steam
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Release dates

  • Apr 02, 2009 (Worldwide) Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows)
  • Oct 28, 2011 (Worldwide) Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows)
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Rating distribution

5 stars
21
4 stars
64
3 stars
32
2 stars
10
1 star
4
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Community All Reviews Statuses

itamar

Review itamar 1/5 · Jun 22, 2024

Neat old-school game, but buggy

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, …

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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.

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spookybarn

Review spookybarn 5/5 · May 22, 2013

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