Trails and Traces: The Tomb of Thomas Tew
Use your sleuthing skill and any means necessary to uncover information. Point-and-click adventure inspired by the classics. Megaphone tap unsuspecting people for clues. Original soundtrack and jukebox mode.
Trails and Traces: The Tomb of Thomas Tew is an adventure developed by Because Because Games, released 23 April 2021 on PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
What Trails and Traces: The Tomb of Thomas Tew is
Trails and Traces: The Tomb of Thomas Tew is an adventure game developed by Because Because Games and released in 2021. It was published by Ratalaika Games. It is available on PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
In 1695, Tew and his fellow pirates pursued a Mughal ship. His ship, The Amity, attacked the ship, the Fateh Muhammed. Tew was disemboweled by a cannon shot, and died instantly. Or did he? Present day. Detective James Labbett takes a missing persons case, which unexpectedly leads to an adventure of discovering the truth of what happened to the pirate Thomas Tew, but he isn't the only one who has an interest...
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are comedy and mystery. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Trails and Traces: The Tomb of Thomas Tew holds a critic score of 20 out of 100. That places it above 1% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2021 averaged 74, so it scored 54 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Trails and Traces: The Tomb of Thomas Tew launched on 23 April 2021, within three weeks of Resident Evil Village, Mass Effect: Legendary Edition, Returnal and Mass Effect Legendary Edition. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 1 year into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Resident Evil Village, Mass Effect: Legendary Edition, Returnal, Mass Effect Legendary Edition.
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