Got this game for free, got hooked and played until I finished the game. Absolutely detest the ending due to my own genre preferences, and the bugs were insanely frustrating. I hit a grand total of two game breaking bugs. The first bug had me trapped in the starting jail cell. The first metal door ("Screaming Door") was locked, and the guard, though alerted, simply wasn't coming to the door. The fix? Quit to desktop, reload game, start a new save. The second bug, I had to google the answer, and eventually found that I had to do a hard reset of all game settings so it could regen them on launch. This second bug was in the mission just before the final mission, and it was definitely confusing. To avoid spoilers, I'll simply say a chest on the shore wasn't triggering necessary scripts. Apart from that, the performance wasn't the best, which is fine, but every time the game froze to load a new area, it would read any mouse input for the entire freeze, and would then flip the camera like nuts over and over every time anything had to load, throughout the entire game. And I couldn't just let go of the mouse, since it'd freeze while I was moving the player character about. The quicker I let go of the mouse, the better, but it was still always an annoyance. Technical aspects aside, Ghost of a Tale has excellent graphics and an intriguing storyline, with interesting characters that I found myself rooting for throughout the game. Although I became stuck on several missions, as I am admittedly not an avid puzzle or linear-story gamer, I found each mission more fun than the last. It was a gloriously pleasing adventure, all things considered. As an aside, I found myself endlessly amused at the stalwart waddle of Tilo in his heavy armor. Looking forward, I want an open-world Ghost of a Tale, with fullly accessible regions and cities to explore. Something similar to a Redwall/Witcher3 mashup, essentially. Would be an excellent game to play and pour hours and hours into.
