Cleo: A Pirate's Tale

Cleo: A Pirate's Tale is an adventure game inspired by the first installments of The Legend of Zelda series and the classics produced by LucasArts. It was developed by Christoph Schultz, an independent German developer, and was made possible thanks to a successful crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter.

Plot

The main character of Cleo: A Pirate's Tale is Cleo, a 14-year-old girl who dreams of a career as a pirate, but helps her father run a bar, condemned to the company of unfulfilled buccaneers and boring fishermen. Everything changes when the girl finds a pirate journal and meets a ghost who gives her a mysterious clue. This is how her exciting but also dangerous adventure begins, during which the protagonist gets to know the pirate world, following the trail of the legendary treasure.

Game mechanics

In Cleo: A Pirate's Tale we usually watch the action from the top-down view. Game offers us a vast world, which consists of many different islands. During the journey we meet various characters; although pirates are the most important, there are also other characters such as talkative parrots, ghosts and mermaids. By talking to them (as befits a title inspired by LucasArts games, conversations can be strange), we learn more and more about the game world, as well as receive tips that can be useful in completing tasks or solving puzzles. Speaking of puzzles, we can find some that require finding a particular item and using it in a specific way (or combining it with another one), as well as those that involve manipulating levers.

What's interesting is the fact that there are no wrong choices here; it's also impossible to die. In between the great adventures we can indulge in the so-called Kraken Fodder, a card game played by local pirates.

Technical aspects

Cleo: A Pirate's Tale features simple but colorful, clear and quite enchanting graphics made in pixel art technique. It runs on Unity technology.

Last updated on 21 July 2022