I loved so many aspects of Creepy Tale but I wasn’t a fan of many of the puzzles overall and in a puzzle game that is kind of a problem. I found much of the time I was beating the puzzles by trial and error or luck and not because they made any logical sense to me. There were some good ones early on like when you have to figure put how to poison a witch but many of the ones after that I felt my self asking “how should I have reasonably known that ?”. Most of the time it was trial and error until I figured it out but I still don’t know why the correct solution was correct. The game board puzzle is a great example of this. The art is gorgeous and has a great theme to it. The lack of voice acting works for this game much how it did for the game Brothers. The story, while a bit unexplored, was interesting for what it was. The sound effects and music were well done.
I played Creepy Tales on Linux. It never crashed on me and I didn’t notice any glitches. Alt-Tab didn’t work. There was an auto save system and the worst part was the game gave no indication when it saved. The save points weren’t terribly spaced apart but a save icon would have been nice or even better a manual save system. You can’t edit controls either. This wasn’t a huge deal as I don’t mind the defaults but it still would have been nice to have the option. The game ran fairly well on the lower end system I used but there was some lag when the game would drop to the 40’s for frame rate here and there. There are no graphics options at all aside from resolution. My Logitech F310 game pad worked without issue although it was limited to using the thumb sticks due to the dpad not working.
Game Engine: Unity
Save System: Auto
Disk Space Used: 1.57 GB
Input Used: Logitech F310
Resolution: 1080P
CPU Usage: 6-16 %
RAM Usage: 2.8-3.6 GB
Frame Rate: 40-75 (My refresh rate)
I wanted to like Creepy Tale more than I did because I can see a lot of effort went into it and I did enjoy aspects of it. Sadly I just couldn’t get into the puzzles and that is probably more of a personal issue than the sign of a bad game as many people I know loved the puzzles. I paid $5.69 CAD for the game and finished it in 93 minutes. I’d say the value was fair. It could have used a bit more explanation on the story but other than that the length didn’t bother me.
My Score: 6.5/10
My System:
Intel I7-4770 | 16GB DDR3-2133 CL9 | Intel HD 4600 1536MB | Mesa 20.0.8 | Samsung 850 Evo 250GB | Trisquel 9.0 | Mate 1.20.0 | Kernel 5.10.16-gnu