The Darkest Tales
The Darkest Tales is a complex and compelling adventure, full of familiar characters and fairytale landscapes. Over the course of the journey, you'll have to come face-to-face with the difficult questions of…
The Darkest Tales is an adventure developed by Trinity Team, released 13 October 2022 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What The Darkest Tales is
The Darkest Tales is an adventure game developed by Trinity Team and released in 2022. It was published by 101XP. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It carries an ESRB T age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
When a nightmare creeps into reality, the only ones that can help are those whose magical powers we’ve believed in since childhood. A brave teddy bear heads to the far side of "happily ever after" to rescue his owner, Alicia.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, drama, fantasy and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
The Darkest Tales holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 15% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2022 averaged 74, so it scored 14 points below the year average.
What it launched against
The Darkest Tales launched on 13 October 2022, within three weeks of A Plague Tale: Requiem, Scorn, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord and Bayonetta 3. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 9 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: A Plague Tale: Requiem, Scorn, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord, Bayonetta 3.
Official trailer
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