Release Date: February 21, 2020
Creepy Tale is a 2D platform game with adventure elements, inspired by Grimm Brothers' fairy tales. Play as a young boy who sets out to rescue his brother, who was captured by mysterious unfriendly creatures while mushrooming.
Creepy Tale is a short platform game with elements of adventure game, kept in a dark atmosphere, inspired by Grimm Brothers' fairy tales. Creepy Tale is developed by Creepy Brothers, an independent studio, which originally released it on Steam. In July of the same year, the game also hit the Nintendo Switch console. In this case, its release was handled by Polish company No Gravity Games.
It's late autumn when two brothers decide to go mushroom picking in the forest. They are lucky because there are plenty of mushrooms and they both manage to fill their baskets to the brim. As they walk through the fog-shrouded landscape, they suddenly notice a beautiful, luminous butterfly. They decide to run after it, finally reaching a small wooden hut. The creature flies in through the open door, and the main character's brother follows it without hesitation. As soon as it disappears inside, the door immediately slams shut. Peeking through the window, the protagonist is horrified to discover that his brother has been captured by two, ghastly creatures. He has no choice but to get inside and free him.
Creepy Tale is a game which combines adventure and platform game elements, so there's a lot of exploration, arcade sequences and various tasks and puzzles.
During his expedition, the hero encounters a lot of often hostile creatures. From some of them he has to hide or run away, others he has to neutralize with the help of specially prepared potions. Some of the creatures, however, turn out to be harmless, and their support can even be helpful in overcoming certain sections of the game.
Visiting subsequent locations, the player also has the opportunity to collect useful items, which after collecting are displayed at the bottom of the screen. Some are used to eliminate traps, while others are used to solve more complex tasks. Some items can also be used several times, for example when overcoming certain obstacles. Interactive purple mushrooms also appear in the game, which act as trampolines, making it easier for the hero to get to higher platforms.
The game features 2D graphics, kept in an old-school cartoon style, and the events presented in it are shown in side-scroll view. The fairy-tale atmosphere of the game is additionally built by the matching soundtrack.
Platforms:
PC Windows February 21, 2020
Xbox One September 28, 2021
Nintendo Switch July 10, 2020
Developer: Creepy Brothers
Publisher: Creepy Brothers
Age restrictions: 12+
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System Requirements for Creepy Tale Video Game:
PC / Windows
Minimum System Requirements:
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz, 2 GB RAM, graphic card 1 GB GeForce GT 630 or better, 2 GB HDD, Windows 7/8/10 64-bit.
Game Ratings for Creepy Tale Video Game.
God is a Geek: 6 / 10 by Chris White
Creepy Tale never relies on typical puzzle tropes, and has a wonderful art style that is both unsettling and beautiful in equal measure. It's to clever for its own good, and the amount of times you'll struggle far outweighs the enjoyment of solving the mystery of your missing brother.
Cubed3: 4 / 10 by Renan Fontes
Creepy Tale certainly lives up to its namesake, courtesy of superb sound design and art heavily inspired by the works of John Kenn Mortensen, but it's a title which falls apart under scrutiny. A completely silent narrative is ambitious, as is designing puzzles exclusively around visual cues, but there's barely an hour of actual content in-game. Any puzzle-solving veterans are basically guaranteed to roll credits within 45 minutes. What's worse is that while the atmosphere is palatable (with enough mild scares that feel earned), Mortensen's "influence" borders on plagiarism. He's mentioned in the staff roll for what it's worth, but under a very specific "Inspired By" credit. Regardless of any involvement Mortensen may or may not have had, the fact the game is dripping in his style does it no favours - if only because it's a blatant imitation lacking artistic integrity. Creepy Tale is fine enough on the cheap, but it won't satisfy competent gamers, nor is it a suitable introduction to newcomers given its emphasis on gore.
Video Chums: 3 / 5 by A.J. Maciejewski
Piecing together the puzzles in Creepy Tale can be quite rewarding but at the same time, frustration is bound to rear its ugly head.
Average score from votes.
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