The Book of Unwritten Tales: The Critter Chronicles

Enjoy a thrilling and hilarious point-and-click adventure in the fantasy world of Aventasia

The Book of Unwritten Tales: The Critter Chronicles is a adventure, point & click and fantasy game developed by KING Art and published by THQ Nordic.
Released on December 05th 2012 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 2 languages: English and German.

It has received 441 reviews of which 369 were positive and 72 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.8 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam.

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

Adventure Point & Click Fantasy Indie Comedy Singleplayer Funny Puzzle

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Requirements

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Windows

OS:Windowns XP SP3, Vista, 7, 8
Processor:2.4 GHz
Memory:1 GB RAM
Graphics:DirectX 9c compatible graphic 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 10.8/Mac OS X 10.7
Processor:2.4 GHz Intel Mac Core Duo
Memory:1500 MB RAM
Graphics:Intel GMA-950-Grafikkarte with 256MB VRAM or better
Hard Drive:6 GB HD space

Linux

OS:Ubuntu 12.04 or above
Processor:2.4 GHz
Memory:1 GB RAM
Graphics: OpenGL compatible graphic card with 128 MB RAM, Pixelshader 2.0
Hard Drive:6 GB HD space

Reviews

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Jan. 2025

This is a great humorous point and click adventure game set in the same universe as the others in the series featuring many of the characters that appear through the series. They are worth the buy if you enjoy these types of games. It features a great set of comical characters in a fantasy world with some references to other fantasy stories and some challenging yet not to difficult puzzles. It is worth the full price but it goes on sale often enough, and I picked up the whole bundled series on sale. In my personal opinion the sale was an absolute steal for what you get.

Nov. 2024

A delightful prequel! The Critter Chronicles offers more of the same humor and charm that made the original so fun. Love the new characters and clever puzzles—perfect for fans of point-and-click adventures!

Aug. 2024

I've loved all of the games in this series and I wish I could find other games that are like it. I think it's spoiled me for future point and click adventures. This was such utter fun to play.

June 2024

The critter is the cutest thing in this whole series. I liked the fact that this game was not as long as the first part. The puzzles are mean (baby catapult lol) and creative, the artwork is cute and colorful, I also really liked the Antarctica-setting and the crazy Hogwarts-Tower. But oh boy that crash in the beginning where the critter attaches the rope to the salt shaker and then the whole game crashes really drove me crazy. I found out that you can (sometimes) avoid the bug by waiting about a minute without doing nothing after attaching the rope, others say you can skip the animation by leaving the cave before the animation is shown. I somehow made it after many attempts but it was really quite annoying. Otherwise great game.

Feb. 2024

...which probably should've just been a simple addition to the original. But more on that later. Let's start with the good things - this game, as the original, is fun and funny. It has a lot of cultural references yet manages to be unique and not loose itself in them. It looks fantastic. It mostly keeps puzzles fun and interesting - rarely too easy, rarely too annoying or needlessly complex. Unlike the original, this game is pretty short, which could be a plus, since the game could have had little filler content in it. And it mostly did. Mostly. However, I couldn't stop thinking, that the game was designed as a short expansion, which would either require the original or would cost less than it does, but then the developers realised that they need to sell it as a standalone game at a specific price, so they decided to "appropriately" fill it with more content. So the last third of the game feels needlessly longer than it should be. Cultural references and jokes become slightly lazier, puzzles require more pointless walking and figuring out what else the game wants you to do. And it's a shame, really, as the game starts very good, and the characters of Nate and Critter are good from the beginning till the end. This should've been a cheaper expansion/DLC, with most of its last third removed in favor of not tainting the magic of the first two thirds of the game. But I'd still recommend it for those good parts

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The Book of Unwritten Tales: The Critter Chronicles

19.99€

7.8

369

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Developer

KING Art

Publisher

THQ Nordic

Release 05 Dec 2012

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