The Book of Unwritten Tales

The game challenges the player with a series of puzzles and brain teasers presented as a traditional point and click adventure game. The puzzles are embedded in an adventure story that will take most players…

50 2 April 2009

Adventure Point-and-click Comedy Fantasy

The Book of Unwritten Tales is an adventure developed by KING Art, released 2 April 2009 on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What The Book of Unwritten Tales is

The Book of Unwritten Tales is an adventure game developed by KING Art and released in 2009. It was published by HMH Interactive. It is available on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on OGRE.

The premise, in the publisher's words

In a world torn by war, the aged gremlin archaeologist Mortimer MacGuffin harbours the dark secret of a powerful artefact. Whoever calls this artefact his own, will determine the fate of the world. While the Army of the Shadows sends out its best and most devious agents to discover the secret, the Alliance's four heroes find themselves involuntarily drawn into the crisis...

Description from the publisher · source

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.

How it was received

The Book of Unwritten Tales holds a critic score of 50 out of 100. That places it above 7% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 17 points below the year average. Players rate it 65, 15 points higher than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.

How long it takes, and what that costs

A full completion run takes around 15 hrs.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for Pentium IV 2 GHz / Athlon 2.4 GHz, 2 GB RAM and Direct-X 9c compliant video card with 128 MB RAM, PixelShader 2.0. At 2GB 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.

Full requirements and PC checker →

What it launched against

The Book of Unwritten Tales launched on 2 April 2009, within three weeks of Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, Guitar Hero: Metallica, The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena and Muramasa: The Demon Blade. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, Guitar Hero: Metallica, The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena, Muramasa: The Demon Blade.

Official trailer

Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel. See all 4 videos →

Screenshots

All media

The Book of Unwritten Tales gameplay screenshot

Characters

All 16

Bartholomew Anton Shieldhand

Blout

Dragon

Guliver

Ivo

Jilted Maiden

Quick answers

The Book of Unwritten Tales — frequently asked questions

When did The Book of Unwritten Tales come out?

The Book of Unwritten Tales was released on 2 April 2009 for Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

What are the minimum PC requirements for The Book of Unwritten Tales?

At minimum, The Book of Unwritten Tales needs Pentium IV 2 GHz / Athlon 2.4 GHz, 2 GB RAM, Direct-X 9c compliant video card with 128 MB RAM, PixelShader 2.0 graphics, 6 GB HD space of storage.

How many GB is The Book of Unwritten Tales?

The PC version needs about 6 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("6 GB HD space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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