

The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales 2023
Developed by Do My Best
- Puzzle, Role-playing (RPG), Turn-based strategy (TBS), Adventure
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 famous items like Thor's Hammer and the Excalibur in exchange for your creative freedom. 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 places and use them to reach your goal. After all, they are not really alive...or are they? Find solutions to a plethora of puzzles, some quite… unorthodox Some problems will make you think outside the box, and some will require you to travel outside of this world. If you are stuck, just wake up at your apartment. You may find something handy there that you can take with you on your journey. In a book, a crowbar may be just as effective against a lock as a key might be...
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Contemporary, unpretentious, plot-driven and cool.
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- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the game
- Platforms
- Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox One
- Developer
- Do My Best
- Publisher
- tinyBuild
- Released
- June 22, 2023
- Modes
- Single player
- Perspective
- First person, Bird view / Isometric
- Engine
- Unity
- Time to beat
- 7 h rushed · 8 h main story
IGDB rating 7.7/10 from 21 ratings.
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