Ghost of a Tale
Ghost of a Tale is an action-RPG game in which you play as Tilo, a mouse and minstrel thrown into a perilous adventure. Through stealth and cunning you’ll be able to explore the secrets of Dwindling Heights…
Ghost of a Tale is an adventure developed by SeithCG, released 13 March 2018 on Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. It currently starts at $1.99 at WinGameStore. The main story takes about 11 hrs to finish.
What Ghost of a Tale is
Ghost of a Tale is an adventure game developed by SeithCG and released in 2018. It was published by Plug In Digital. It is available on Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Ghost of a Tale takes place in a medieval world inhabited by several species of anthropomorphic animals, many of which inhabit their own kingdom: the lore includes mice, rats, frogs, crabs, badgers, hawks, spiders, leeches, magpies and various undead creatures. The game is set centuries after a cataclysmic event known as the War of the Green Flame. During this time, a mysterious ball of emerald fire of unknown origin swept across the world, killing all who stood against it and raising their bodies into an ever-growing undead army. At the height of the conflict, the mouse kingdom sent an envoy to the flame attempting to save their home by revealing the weaknesses of others, but the being…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and stealth. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 20 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Ghost of a Tale holds a critic score of 65 out of 100. That places it above 24% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 4 points below the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 11 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 19 hrs, roughly 1.7 times the length of the critical path. At its current cheapest price of $1.99, that works out to about $0.18 per hour of the main story, or $0.10 per hour if you finish everything.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel i5 - 2.5Ghz, 3 GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 (2GB) or AMD Radeon R9 270. At 3GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 5GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $1.99 at WinGameStore, 90% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Ghost of a Tale launched on 13 March 2018, within three weeks of Far Cry 5, Sea of Thieves, A Way Out and Into the Breach. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 5 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Far Cry 5, Sea of Thieves, A Way Out, Into the Breach.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Ghost of a Tale yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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