The Book of Unwritten Tales

In a world torn by war, the aged gremlin archaeologist Mortimer MacGuffin harbors the dark secret of a powerful artifact.

The Book of Unwritten Tales is a adventure, point & click and comedy game developed by KING Art and published by THQ Nordic.
Released on July 31st 2012 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 2 languages: English and German.

It has received 2,065 reviews of which 1,884 were positive and 181 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.7 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified The Book of Unwritten Tales into these genres:

Adventure Point & Click Comedy Singleplayer Fantasy Puzzle Classic Retro Great Soundtrack Story Rich Funny Cult Classic 1990's Indie Atmospheric Escape Room

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Requirements

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Windows

OS *:Windows XP SP 3 (32bit) / Vista SP 2 / Windows 7 SP 1
Processor:Pentium IV 2 GHz / Athlon 2.4 GHz
Memory:2 GB RAM
Graphics:Direct-X 9c compliant video card with 128 MB RAM, PixelShader 2.0
DirectX®:9.0c
Hard Drive:6 GB HD space

MacOS

OS:Mac OS X 10.6/Mac OS X 10.7
Processor:1.4GHz Intel Mac Core Duo
Memory:1500 MB RAM
Graphics:Intel GMA-950-Grafikkarte with 64MB VRAM or better
Hard Drive:6 GB HD space

Reviews

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Dec. 2024

A very fun and funny fantasy-set point-and-click. If you enjoy point and clicks, humor, and fantastical (yet goofy) tales, you'll enjoy this.

Oct. 2024

it is an absolutely great game! if you love point&click adventures: this is your stuff! the only annoying thing, especially if you wanna replay it: you can't skip all those annoying animations! they're necessary and fun at the beginning, but if you gotta repeat a few tasks to get something right and/or you replay it, therefor already more or less know crudely the main game....it becomes extremely frustrating and annoying to be forced to watch the same seemingly unnecessary and and annoying animations over and over again without a chance to simply skip them. yes; ive checked the gnome house before! no, i haven't, yet, found out the right way to proceed. no! i dont wanna watch wilbur annoyingly long climb down the stairs into the basement because i gotta re-check again, if i really checked everything properly in the basement before! i simply wanna quickly check the basement! I HAVE SEEN WILBUR ALREADY SEVERAL TIMES CLIMBING DOWN THE FUCKING STAIRS!!!!!! I DONT NEED TO SEE IT AGAIN FOR A REPEATED TIME!!!!!!!!!

Aug. 2024

So.. Here's the story. I think. You follow a hobbit called Willow who wants to become a mage instead of an engineer. Suddenly he's sent on a quest to deliver a magical ring to an powerful wizard while dodging the evil forces. There's an elf with an attitude and a self claimed treasure hunter. Something like that? Sigh.. Well I did play a solid point&click game anyways. The puzzles were quite simple and straightforward. Sometimes you had to think outside the box but at least there were no monkey wrenches. There's quite a lot of things I didn't like here. To me it felt like all the possible originality of the setting was shadowed by constant references and jokes that were hip at the time of release. I lost count on how many Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings and gods know what else stories were mixed and ridiculed here. Satires are all well and good but for my tastes, this was rather poorly written.. Recommending this? For the sake of experiencing it yourself. The overall reviews are mostly positive and as I wrote, its a solid game. Just not my cup of tea.

Aug. 2024

Holy cow did I love this game and the sequels. I mean, I think it's spoiled me for all other games. How am going to find another game with phenomenal voice actors, beautiful graphics, and gut busting humor? Not to mention really good puzzles. I can't believe I had never heard of this game before until recently. I wish I could play all three of them again for the first time.

Jan. 2024

This game is so wholesome, intelligent and crafty! I regret not giving it a chance earlier. If you love the "Raven" game, this is the only one out there with the same vibe.

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