- Puzzle, Adventure, Indie, Action
In Tengami you explore a beautifully crafted pop-up book world, with an art style inspired by traditional Japanese arts and crafts. Tengami is an atmospheric adventure game, full of wonder and mystery, set in Japan of ancient dark fairy tales. Flip, fold, slide and pull parts of the world to solve puzzles and discover secrets.
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Grave, earnest, plot-driven and contemplative.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemplativerelentless
- intimateepic
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Digitally DownloadedNov 20144.5/5 starsTengami is an arthouse game. It's the kind of experience that, like Gone Home, people will dismiss for lacking action or having a narrative that doesn't treat its players like idiots, but it's also the kind of game that shows that the games industry is growing up and pushing the limits of what can be achieved given the freedom and resources to be properly creative.
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Nintendo LifeMartin WattsNov 20148/10Price aside, this is definitely a game you should experience in some form or another, even if the only way for you to play it is on Nintendo's home system.
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NZGamerHadyn GreenJan 20158/10I feel also that Tengami is a game that would be better played on a tablet, to give you a sense of actually turning the pages, of discovering what's inside this magical book. At certain times, if you go exploring, you can find the edge of the book.
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Rock, Paper, ShotgunJohn WalkerJan 2015Most of the game is about painfully slowly walking your paper person to the next glowing spot on the ground, and pulling at the big glowing circle that appears, then painfully slowly walking back again.
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SelectButtonMarcus JonesFeb 20156/10Tengami's visuals and soundtrack are really well done, but overall it was lacking in substance. I would have liked to see more perplexing puzzles and a developed narrative. That being said, I still enjoyed the ethereal atmosphere and spent most of my time admiring the world around me. Thanks to the short playtime, I didn't end up as frustrated as I could have been. You may want to try out Tengami purely for the art and music, which is what it's really all about.
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About the game
- Platforms
- Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Wii U
- Developer
- Nyamyam
- Publisher
- Nyamyam
- Released
- October 27, 2014
- Modes
- Single player
- Perspective
- Side view
- Time to beat
- 2.5 h main story
IGDB rating 5.3/10 from 21 ratings.
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