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Clockwork Tales: Of Glass and Ink

Clockwork Tales: Of Glass and Ink is an adventure game in the steampunk genre. It is a detective drama featuring action elements such espionage, monster battles and even hang-gliding! A continuing string of…

70 4 March 2014 ESRB T

Clockwork Tales: Of Glass and Ink is an adventure developed by Artifex Mundi, released 4 March 2014 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Android and Linux.

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What Clockwork Tales: Of Glass and Ink is

Clockwork Tales: Of Glass and Ink is an adventure game developed by Artifex Mundi and released in 2014. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Android, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It carries an ESRB T age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Clockwork Tales: Of Glass and Ink is an adventure game in the steampunk genre. It is a detective drama featuring action elements such espionage, monster battles and even hang-gliding! A continuing string of strange earthquakes are causing the world’s cities to crumble to ruin. Dr. Ambrose Ink—one of the foremost minds of the technological revolution—hopes to expose the underlying cause of this supernatural phenomenon. His research leads him to Hochwald, a town nestled high in the mountains near the mysterious Barber family castle. Yet, shortly after arriving at the estate, Dr. Ink disappears. It’s up to Dr. Ink’s longtime friend and confidante, Agent Evangeline Glass to save Dr. Ink and…
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How it plays

Its themes are fantasy, mystery and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 19 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

Clockwork Tales: Of Glass and Ink holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored about average for its year.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for 1.5 GHz, 512 MB RAM and 128 MB VRAM. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 1GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

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What it launched against

Clockwork Tales: Of Glass and Ink launched on 4 March 2014, within three weeks of South Park: The Stick of Truth, Dark Souls II, Hearthstone and Diablo III: Reaper of Souls. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 1 year into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: South Park: The Stick of Truth, Dark Souls II, Hearthstone, Diablo III: Reaper of Souls.

Cheats and codes

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Clockwork Tales: Of Glass and Ink — frequently asked questions

When did Clockwork Tales: Of Glass and Ink come out?
Clockwork Tales: Of Glass and Ink was released on 4 March 2014 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Android, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for Clockwork Tales: Of Glass and Ink?
At minimum, Clockwork Tales: Of Glass and Ink needs 1.5 GHz, 512 MB RAM, 128 MB VRAM graphics, 1 GB available space of storage.
How many GB is Clockwork Tales: Of Glass and Ink?
The PC version needs about 1 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("1 GB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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