The Book of Unwritten Tales

Developer: KING Art
Publisher: Nordic Games
Rrp: £17.99 (Steam) £17.99 (gog.com), £17.99 (Humblebundle)
Released: 31st July 2012
Available on: Steam, humblebundle and Gog.com
Played using: Mouse and Keyboard

In the fantasy world of Aventásia war is raging between the Alliance and the Shadow Army. This war has go on longer than anyone can remember and neither side shows any signs of weakening. But even in such a dire situation life must go on and sometimes it isn’t battle that forges heroes but the strange machinations of fate.

The Book of Unwritten Tales is a point and click adventure game that was created in Germany, it seems that a lot of point and click games seem to come from there… Not that I’m complaining. The game is absolutely brimming with humour, referencing pop and geek culture many times as well as pointing out and using tropes from fantasy and point and click games. It even makes a point of ripping on itself.

As is usually the case with point and click games you collect items in each area and either combine them within your inventory or use them on your surroundings to solve puzzles.

The game is split into chapters, at the beginning of the game you’ll only play as one character per chapter. But as you progress in the story you’ll start to be able to swap between the different characters.

Sadly, this title isn’t without it’s faults, on rare occasions an animation error will occur making it impossible to progress further. To avoid losing all your work I recommend saving regularly because a restart seems to solve the issue. Also even when running at the maximum resolution the game still has two large black boarders to either side of the screen.

Can’t fault the voice acting too much. It’s quite amusing that nearly every character has a some form of British accent. But sometimes the dialog feels a bit… stunted and unnatural.

If you are a fan of more traditional point and click games then this game is for you. Yes, it does lack the polish a large publisher or developer could muster, but the game itself is highly enjoyable, you just have to be willing to put up with some occasionally questionable CGI.

If you liked that then perhaps try;

The Dig
TellTale’s Wolf Among Us
The Deponia Series