The Book of Unwritten Tales: The Critter Chronicles
A point-and-click adventure that trades fantasy spectacle for genuine warmth and oddball humor, if you can forgive its slower pacing.
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Charming point-and-click adventure for players who value warm writing and oddball humor over flashy mechanics.
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About The Book of Unwritten Tales: The Critter Chronicles
I found myself charmed by The Critter Chronicles in ways its fantasy-adventure wrapper doesn't immediately promise. This is a prequel to the Unwritten Tales series, and it leans hard into irreverent humor and character banter that lands more often than it misses. The puzzle design is straightforward puzzle-adventure fare - inventory combinations, dialogue-gating, light exploration across hand-drawn screens - nothing revolutionary, but competent enough that it never frustrates. What stuck with me was the tone. KING Art built something deliberately goofy here, a world that doesn't take itself seriously and knows exactly when to wink at adventure-game tropes. The writing carries it; if you groove with that flavor of whimsy and don't mind a slower, more talky rhythm than modern adventure games, this scratches a specific itch. Shorter than you'd expect (around 4-5 hours), which feels right for what it is. Not groundbreaking, but a tidy, character-driven romp that respects your time.
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System Requirements
Minimum
- OS
- Windowns XP SP3, Vista, 7, 8
- Processor
- 2.4 GHz
- Memory
- 1 GB RAM
- Graphics
- DirectX 9c compatible graphic card with 128 MB RAM, Pixelshader 2.0 DirectX®:9.0c Hard Drive:6 GB HD space
Recommended
- Processor
- 3 GHz
- Memory
- 1 GB RAM
- Graphics
- DirectX 9c compatible graphic card with 256 MB RAM, Pixelshader 2.0 DirectX®:9.0c Hard Drive:6 GB HD space
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Game Info
- Developer
- KING Art
- Publisher
- THQ Nordic
- Release Date
- Dec 5, 2012
