Stories Untold

Stories Untold is a compilation tape of four experimental adventures, including a remaster of the original hit episode “The House Abandon”.

Stories Untold is a adventure, text-based and horror game developed by No Code and published by Devolver Digital.
Released on February 27th 2017 is available in English on Windows and MacOS.

It has received 5,028 reviews of which 4,379 were positive and 649 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.4 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 0.97€ on Steam and has a 90% discount.

The Steam community has classified Stories Untold into these genres:

Adventure Text-Based Horror Indie Atmospheric Psychological Horror Singleplayer Point & Click 1980s Retro Thriller Sci-fi Story Rich Puzzle Great Soundtrack Mystery Interactive Fiction First-Person Walking Simulator FMV

Media & Screenshots

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Requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

OS *: Windows 7 or later
Processor: Intel Core™ Duo or faster
Memory: 2 GB RAM
DirectX: Version 9.0
Storage: 400 MB available space
Additional Notes: Lights Off, Headphones On

MacOS

OS: Mac OS X 10.9.5 or later
Processor: Intel Core™ i5-4570S
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: GeForce GT 750 or similar
Storage: 2 GB available space
Additional Notes: Lights Off, Headphones On

Reviews

Explore reviews from Steam users sharing their experiences and what they love about the game.

Nov. 2024

Fantastic little game. Probably 2 - 3 hours for a playthrough if you aren't rushing. Picked up for a buck and it's the best dollar I've spent in a while.

Aug. 2024

A very peculiar game that gets the gears turning. Each chapter with it's own unique premise, gameplay mechanics and unsettling settings to accompany them. It almost feels like an anthology with completely no correlation until you dig deep. Definitely a worthy play that left me wishing there were more games like it to promote other unseen tragedies in a storytelling light. Sure, the text in The House Abandon might be a little rough around the edges, but what else should be expected of a text based game? Options are limited to point you in a progressive direction. That's what's necessary. This is the way it's meant to be made, meant to be played. This game is very unique in many aspects and definitely worth a buy. No shame in following guides because the game is meant to be experienced for the plot.

March 2024

I have so many hours in this game because I've made so many different friends play this with me watching. I just finished it again with a new person who had no idea what was happening and it made me love it all over again. It's so unique and mysterious and I wish there were more games like this out there. If you get stuck, just use a walkthrough, no shame in that. Worth it to get through the story. I can't recommend it enough.

Jan. 2024

{Spoiler-free review} As far as story-driven games go, this one is certainly unique. You begin the game in front of an old-fashioned computer (the monitor itself being rendered inside a 3D engine), playing a text adventure game. And although the first of Stories Untold's four episodes is a text adventure, this is not a text adventure game. Instead, it's a game that blends genres and mechanics in a way that keeps things novel throughout its 2-3 hour playtime. If you can call this game anything, it would be "narrative puzzle game", which is to say its one constant is telling a story and making the player solve different types of puzzles in different ways. And this is where the game struggles a bit. Mechanically, there are several issues that you will likely run into. To use the text adventure elements as an example (and these do reoccur throughout the game), the game isn't nearly flexible enough with how you write things, and will require specific words that aren't well signposted. For example, and I'll change the words to avoid spoilers, one late-game puzzle requires you to place an object inside another object. The game directly references this object in this very moment as a "flower", but if you write "put flower in vase", it doesn't work. You MUST write "put tulip in vase" for it to trigger the next scene. You do know it's a tulip, but if the game calls it a flower, then why would you be expected *not* to write it in this way? It's a baffling oversight that saps the fun and drama out of the scene until you figure it out or check a guide. Other puzzles vary wildly in quality, from obtuse and poorly designed to overly easy. Your mileage may vary, but I found myself coasting through most puzzles without any thought, save for 3 times where I got stuck. A mark of a good puzzle game is if it challenges the player and rewards good thinking with dopamine-surged eureka moments. Stories Untold unfortunately has none of these moments. Narratively, to talk too much about it would be to spoil it. Stories Untold fits into the episodic category of storytelling, where each of the 4 chapters tells a new narrative. They do tie together, though this happens mostly at the end of the game. This is perhaps the game's most clever magic trick - the way these seemingly disparate tales all fit together is both surprising and emotionally affective. The game's mechanics are also warped in interesting ways as the story draws to a close, and there are a few genuinely brilliant ways in which mechanics meet storytelling, where heavy narrative weight is suddenly revealed about mechanics that originally seemed insignificant. It's for these narrative strengths that I ultimately recommend the game, though it's not without caveats. While many narrative threads ultimately find greater meaning, there are nevertheless a few suspenseful and intriguing plot elements woven into the individual stories that are ultimately rendered meaningless and wholly abandoned by the game's storyline, sacrificed to serve the big picture. And perhaps more disappointing is the giant plot hole you could drive a car through, where the plausibility of the entire story is deleted by something that would almost certainly never happen. If you're somebody who appreciates short-form stories with emotional impact, surprising blends of game genres, and doesn't mind the occasional obtuse adventure game puzzle, then this one will be right up your alley. It's a whole lot cooler than it first appears to be, and only gets better as you progress through it.

Jan. 2024

Stories Untold is one of the most challenging games to decide whether I should recommend it or not, as it can only appeal to a very specific type of audience. It is a pretty short horror anthology game that, due to its highly experimental and unique nature, polarizes public opinion. It either elicits strong dislike from those who had a negative experience, or absolute adoration from those who believe the game is a masterful and clever work of storytelling. Its a pretty hard game to review since it's deeply recommended that you go fully blindly and without any background on the game. Overall, I can only recommend this game if you can enjoy different and alternative storytelling and gameplay, or if you really like horror games and really enjoy just a good horror atmosphere and tension building. It is a game where you will need to put in some brain effort to play it successfully on your own.

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