- Role-playing (RPG), Adventure, Indie, Action
When a greedy megacorp with the power to enter storybooks takes over Flynt Buckler’s fairytale world, he must get a job to sabotage them from within! Climb the corporate ladder, fight in stylish, snappy combat, and dive into storybook worlds from Lovecraft to sci-fi in this genre-bending RPG!
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Unpretentious, resolved, warm and plot-driven.
- unpretentiousprestige
- resolvedopen-ended
- warmbleak
- character-ledplot-driven
- cooloverwhelming
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PS4Blog.netJan 20269/10Charming RPG adventure in which fairytale and storybook characters must fight back against capitalism
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ZTGDTerrence JohnsonMar 20268.5/10For players looking for an action adventure/RPG that blends style, substance, and a healthy sense of humor, this is an easy recommendation. It may wear a fairy tale costume, but underneath that bright cloak is a sharp, confident experience that knows how to fight, how to entertain, and how to keep you turning the page.
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Nintendo LifeMitch VogelFeb 20268/10If you’re at all a fan of the more RPG-focused Mario RPGs, you owe it to yourself to play Escape from Ever After. It may be over a bit too quickly, but the writing, charm, and gameplay mechanics all come together to make for something you won’t want to miss.
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Metro GameCentralJan 20266/10A genuinely funny Paper Mario style role-player, with entertaining puzzles and a welcome mockery of LinkedIn culture, let down by rhythm action battle mechanics that don’t quite work.
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WayTooManyGamesAaron PriceMar 20266.5/10The characters and areas are charming, the puzzles are fun, but the combat is slacking by comparison and there’s not really any music that’s quite as memorable. Still though, this is well worth playing if you get the chance. It’s not massively long so it’s less of a time commitment by comparison, and most Paper Mario fans will be able to get into it.
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About the game
- Platforms
- Xbox Series X|S, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch
- Developer
- Sleepy Castle Studio
- Publisher
- HypeTrain Digital
- Released
- January 23, 2026
- Modes
- Single player
- Perspective
- Third person
- Engine
- Unreal Engine 4
IGDB rating 8.6/10 from 1 ratings.
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