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Posted February 20, 2015
A high funtasy adventure.

<span class="bold">The Book of Unwritten Tales 2</span>, a new chapter in the cult adventure series, is available now, for Windows and Mac OS X, (Linux coming very soon), DRM-free on GOG.com with a 10% launch discount!

<span class="bold">The Book of Unwritten Tales 2</span> is the third game in the series of whimsical "high-funtasy" parody point and click adventure games. The original cast returns to once again save the peculiar world of Aventásia! The game is already being lauded for its beautiful graphics, hilarious writing, and a unique universe that come together as one of this generation's greatest adventure games so far. The title also includes a few twists on standard adventure gameplay, including optional RPG-style sidequests, and customisable outfits for that little taste of dress-up gameplay that's hard not to love. <span class="bold">The Book of Unwritten Tales 2</span> reminds us at every step that it's a game made for gamers, by gamers, with plenty of inside jokes, tropes, and satire to enjoy.

<span class="bold">The Book of Unwritten Tales 2 - Almanac Edition</span> includes a healthy serving of bonus content including:
- 104-page Artbook: Concept art and comics by the game’s concept artist Marvin Clifford
- Making-Of Video: Peek behind the curtain of how The Book Of Unwritten Tales 2 takes form
- A double-sided poster (printable): Two sides, two beautiful pictures. One poster to rule them all.
- Exclusive in-game content "Color Your Critter": Give Critter your favorite color or change it as often as you want – the colors of the rainbow are at your command!

Unravel the stories of <span class="bold">The Book of Unwritten Tales 2</span>, available now DRM-free on GOG.com. The 10% launch discount will last for one week, until Thursday, February 26, at 11:59 PM GMT.

*Due to minor difficulties the Linux version of the Book of Unwritten Tales 2 will be available after a slight delay.

<span class="bold">SPECIAL SERIES PROMO</span>
If you haven't had the chance to try the series yet, now's a good time to pick up The Book of Unwritten Tales and The Book of Unwritten Tales: The Critter Chronicles! They're both available 75% off for the next week as well, that's until Friday, February 27, at 11:59 PM GMT.

<span class="bold">TWITCH STREAM SPECIAL</span>
Jesse Cox will be streaming the game live on twitch.tv/gogcom!

You'll fall in love with the game at first sight, so how about this Friday, February 20th, 9pm GMT / 4pm EST / 1pm PST?
Post edited February 20, 2015 by Konrad
Posted February 21, 2015
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PaterAlf: How could it not work? It's just the soundtrack, the artbook and some other downloadable stuff. There's no in-game content.
There is one in-game content, that color changing thing.

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sithocan: Almanac upgrade edition is available on Humble. But I am not sure if it Works with basic edition from GOG.
By the way, what bitrate is the mp3 soundtrack? 128kbps or higher?
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Grargar: Since the upgrade is a Steam key, I don't think you can redeem it without owning the base game on Steam.
Sorry, I have assumed there are both steam and DRM-free versions as in some other titles.
Posted February 22, 2015
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deonast: I'm not sure I agree with the logic. Does that mean that other game genre games at that price are ok?
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PaterAlf: Adventure games have more or less no replaybility. Once you've completed it, it is over. In other genres (e.g. Strategy, RPGs, Management) you can play over and over again and get a new experience each time you do. So yes, in another genre a higher price point may be acceptable while for adventure games it is not.
Since Adventure games are not the highest selling market you don't get the same sort of scale pricing (you can't guarantee shipping as many units as other genres). Now if you can't get customers to pay more and you can't ship more then I can see larger developer efforts in the adventure game area fading away again like the whole genre did for a while.

To me looks like the writing is on the wall, in a few years we will only see small indie teams doing Adventure games who have less overheads. Sad really. I guess I'd not noticed the problem before. I either kickstarter type back for higher money or grab a game on special.
Posted February 22, 2015
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PaterAlf: Adventure games have more or less no replaybility. Once you've completed it, it is over. In other genres (e.g. Strategy, RPGs, Management) you can play over and over again and get a new experience each time you do. So yes, in another genre a higher price point may be acceptable while for adventure games it is not.
By that logic, in the future we only have episodic crappy made adventures.
Believe it or not, the amount of work put into a adventure of the class we have here is equal to a strategy game. King Art itself can tell you because they made Battle World Kronos.
Posted February 24, 2015
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AlienMind: disi:
Difference is listed here: http://www.gog.com/news/release_the_book_of_unwritten_tales_2
I think GOG assumes that everybody knows to remove the version he or she will not want (normal or almanac) when picking the pack. I think GOG is missing some "radio-button functionality" (= exclusive picks) in their pack-selector.
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disi: Some releases had a SWAG addon to make the normal a 'digital deluxe' edition. This could be misinterpreted, so both versions actual include the full game and the second is a 'digital collectors' edition.

GOG fixed the series buy, cheers ;)

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They fixed it? How come it is listing both versions for me then?
Posted February 24, 2015
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disi: Some releases had a SWAG addon to make the normal a 'digital deluxe' edition. This could be misinterpreted, so both versions actual include the full game and the second is a 'digital collectors' edition.

GOG fixed the series buy, cheers ;)

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Kristian: They fixed it? How come it is listing both versions for me then?
Try clearing your cache/cookies :)
Posted February 25, 2015
I am interested in this, but I'll be waiting for the developers/publisher to fix a few things first. I really liked thed previous two games in the series, but not enough to overlook the following issues with this release:

- No manual (or any bonus whatsoever) with the standard edition. Wtf?
- Exclusive in-game content "Color Your Critter" only for the Almanac edition (some idiotic coloring game). A terrible marketing practice that I don't support.
- ..And the current price is steep for me.

I'll probably wait this one out, until they merge the two versions (if they do so) or make the standard edition identical to the Alamanc as far as in-game content is concerned, offer at least a manual.
Post edited February 25, 2015 by PraetorianWolfie
Posted February 25, 2015
Man, this sequel is expensive :S
Posted February 26, 2015
I'm seriously considering to buy the almanac edition, but, the game is expensive (worth it or not is another matter), i would prefer the soundtrack would be flac since there is a physical cd in the physical almanac edition which is superior to mp3. Even CD flac would be fine.
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