The Book of Unwritten Tales: The Critter Chronicles
The Critter Chronicles tell the story of how adventurer Nate Bonnett and Critter, his hairy sidekick, first met, all set before their appearance in Wilbur's and Ivo's adventure in The Book of Unwritten Tales…
The Book of Unwritten Tales: The Critter Chronicles is an adventure developed by KING Art, released 5 December 2012 on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 8.1 hrs to finish.
What The Book of Unwritten Tales: The Critter Chronicles is
The Book of Unwritten Tales: The Critter Chronicles is an adventure game developed by KING Art and released in 2012. It was published by Nordic Games Publishing. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on OGRE. It carries an ESRB T age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The Critter Chronicles tell the story of how adventurer Nate Bonnett and Critter, his hairy sidekick, first met, all set before their appearance in Wilbur's and Ivo's adventure in The Book of Unwritten Tales. Enjoy a thrilling and hilarious point-and-click adventure in the fantasy world of Aventasia. Travel from the Northlands to the Mage's Tower of Seastone and experience a story that offers tremendous fun for seasoned players of "The Book of Unwritten Tales" and newcomers alike.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are comedy and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 34 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
The Book of Unwritten Tales: The Critter Chronicles 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 2012 averaged 70, so it scored about average for its year.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 8.1 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2.4 GHz, 1 GB RAM and DirectX 9c compatible graphic card with 128 MB RAM, Pixelshader 2.0. 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 6GB. 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 launched against
The Book of Unwritten Tales: The Critter Chronicles launched on 5 December 2012, within three weeks of Far Cry 3, Game Dev Tycoon, Hitman: Absolution and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Dragonborn. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Far Cry 3, Game Dev Tycoon, Hitman: Absolution, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Dragonborn.
Official trailer
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