Ghost of a Tale

It really tries to be something. But nothing is grabbing my attention and earning my time. It's way too complicated for what it is and that complexity is not inviting. It has a really empty feeling. If voices (even grunting sounds) or proper ambience sounds were added it would feel better. The nail in the coffin is the annoying busy work. This must hold the record for most unique keys/locks in a hallway. I played Blender game engine games over a decade ago that have rougly the same gameplay as this.

First, the protagonist is adorable! One's heart cannot melt seeing his big dark eyes. Second, the game is not very long now, don't expect that much content, even if you complete it 100%, but the dev is promising further content, which is grest. Graphically, it is really impressive, the art direction is beautiful and I didn't know Unity could provide such quality. However, there still are some bugs (shadows, missing textures) but not gamebreaking, and the bloom effect is too heavy when going from a dark place to a luminous one. Perfomance wise, the optimisation is not great (even with a GTX970 there are some drops form 60 to 19 fps with medium settings. I feel alpha effects are the reason why.) The dialogs are funny and you have to read it with a scottish accent to get the most of it. I am definitely looking forward to see the future updates!

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Ghost of a Tale is a solid stealth game with an awesome setting. In fact the setting itself just makes me want an entire multimedia franchise. Unfortunately, the game is more or less a demo right now. But, what's there is very promising.

You can already tell from the screenshots that Ghost of a Tale has a cute hero. You only find out that Ghost of a Tale has nothing to offer apart from the cute protagonist when you play it. Or rather, when trying to play it. Because unfortunately you are left in the dark from the very first second as to what you should do or how you can achieve the given goals. The fact that the conversations with other characters aren't spoken and that you have to read the texts would be okay. I get along with that. What is less okay, however, is that the stilted, spongy and unclear conversation text only confuses you even more than you already are. And action? Well, aside from guards waddling predictable routes through the fairly simple areas and chasing after our hero once they've spotted him, I didn't find anything exciting. But this could also have been because I deleted the game after 1.5 hours. A game that comes under the headings "Action / Role-playing / Fantasy" and still hasn't captivated me after 1.5 hours of gameplay and did not encourage me to continue playing, has been given enough time to convince me. Unfortunately, Ghost of a Tale failed in this regard. Too bad, the hero is really cute and cuddly. How good that I got it added to my account for free during a promotion. I would have been really upset if I spent any money on it.