The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales
The Bookwalker is a narrative adventure where you play as Etienne Quist, a writer-turned-thief with the ability to dive into books. Use your powers to traverse reality and book worlds, and track and retrieve…
The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales is an adventure developed by Do My Best, released 22 June 2023 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. It currently starts at $3.34 at GameBillet.
What The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales is
The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales is an adventure game developed by Do My Best and released in 2023. It was published by tinyBuild. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Dive into vastly different worlds As a bookwalker, you possess the unique ability to dive into worlds of books as if they were dreams. However, they are not as immaterial as mere fantasies. Bookwalkers can also bring valuable items from a book into the real world, and that is precisely what your job is Hunt for powerful artifacts Travel between worlds of books in search of legendary items of great power. Even though they are not as powerful in your world, you can still find buyers on the black market. Meet dozens of characters and learn their stories Visit mysterious castle dungeons, a drifting spaceship, a desert city among deadly sandstorms, and much more. Meet the inhabitants of those…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and mystery. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2023 averaged 76, so it scored 4 points above the year average.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $3.34 at GameBillet, 78% below its usual price.
What it launched against
The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales launched on 22 June 2023, within three weeks of Diablo IV, Final Fantasy XVI, Dave the Diver and Street Fighter 6. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Diablo IV, Final Fantasy XVI, Dave the Diver, Street Fighter 6.
Cheats and codes
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