The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales

The Bookwalker is a narrative adventure in which you play as Etienne Quist, a writer-turned-thief with the ability to dive into books. Use your powers to journey between reality and book worlds, and steal legendary items like Thor's Hammer and Excalibur to restore your ability to write.

The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales is a adventure, singleplayer and atmospheric game developed by DO MY BEST and published by tinyBuild.
Released on June 22nd 2023 is available only on Windows in 10 languages: English, Russian, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil and Simplified Chinese.

It has received 1,860 reviews of which 1,734 were positive and 126 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.9 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 14.79€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales into these genres:

Adventure Singleplayer Atmospheric Isometric Noir Story Rich Lore-Rich Dark Fantasy Surreal Mystery First-Person Dystopian Point & Click Thriller Exploration Detective Narration Drama Puzzle Visual Novel

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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

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS *: Windows 7 and up
Processor: Dual-core
Memory: 6 GB RAM
Graphics: GTX 760 and up
Storage: 12 GB available space

Reviews

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

Dec. 2024

I'm not sure ANY review can give this game justice, THAT'S HOW GOOD IT IS! In almost every way possible. Sure it's kind of simple on the graphics, but once you really dive in, only then do you begin to realize its genius. The game falls into chapters, each one with enough variety to keep the full game interesting, but with common elements to keep it familiar. It's pretty cozy, has a good sense of humor and you get a nice companion to keep you company and always has great advise. My wishlist for the next game would be to add a map, definitely include hotspots and add subtitles for when the phone is ringing as I sometimes play with the volume down (would help the deaf as well). Maybe allow for some more interactions around the apartment, rest of the building and even neighborhood! I can't wait to see what's next!!

Oct. 2024

Despite the vaguely YA trappings of a story about a creative inflicted with writer's block as capital punishment, The Bookwalker is a game that more closely resembles books like Kafka's The Trial, Dostoyevsky's Notes From a Dead House and Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading in its telling of a failure hero who wants to escape his shackles under an everpresent yet unseen bureaucracy but struggles to abide by the anti-societal pragmatism rejecting his fate comes to demand Roderick is also best lantern friend

Oct. 2024

Its one of those games which I really, really enjoyed and couldn't stop playing... until the game just ended hahaha. The concept is really cool , the art is amazing and basically I enjoyed every second of it. Really exited to keep a close eye on the developer and see what they come up with next <3

March 2024

I wish the game was much longer, either with more books to explore or be able to take a slower pace and go deeper in particular books, but overall a fantastic game. I really enjoyed the progression of the story, and particularly the companion you travel with. The combat is simple but enough to give you little breaks from puzzle or dialogue heavy sections, and exploration was fairly natural without needing too much back tracking.

March 2024

A good experience overall. Interesting scenarios, little bloat, some compelling writing. The marketing might be a bit misleading. It's essentially a point and click adventure, but with little of the typical nonsense that comes with the genre. The turn-based combat is very minimal and inconsequential. There is no fail state, you just get to retry the few combat encounters with full health and mana again.

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