Fit check
Is About Gretel worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Survival-game players who want hunger, hunting, shelter building, and crafting
- Adventure players who prefer a forest setting with an ongoing mystery
- Players who enjoy choosing between combat and evasion during exploration
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking a primarily story-driven experience may find the survival routines occupy much of the play
- Players looking for a broad combat system or many combat styles may find encounters centered on fighting or fleeing
- Players who prefer urban or social settings may not suit a wilderness-focused adventure
Our take on About Gretel
The kidnapped-twin mystery gives the store presentation a strong narrative hook, but the listed play loop is centered on hunger, hunting, shelter construction, cooking, crafting, and avoiding or fighting Druids. The investigation appears alongside survival management rather than replacing it.
What is About Gretel?
About Gretel is a survival adventure set in a dangerous forest.
The player character must manage hunger by hunting, gather materials by cutting trees, and construct shelter. Food can be prepared at a campfire, while crafted weapons and tools support survival in the wilderness. Exploration brings the threat of a Druid society, which can be confronted in combat or avoided by running away. Alongside these survival tasks, the game presents a mystery involving a kidnapped twin brother. Progress centers on staying alive, investigating the forest, and tracing the circumstances behind the brother’s disappearance and the Druids’ presence.
How About Gretel plays
- 01Shelter construction
- Trees can be cut for materials used to make a place to stay in the forest.
- 02Hunting and cooking
- Food is obtained through hunting and prepared over a campfire.
- 03Tool crafting
- Weapons and other survival equipment can be made from gathered resources.
- 04Druid encounters
- The hostile Druid society can be fought or avoided during exploration.
- 05Twin investigation
- The forest exploration is tied to tracking a missing twin brother and uncovering the related mystery.
About Gretel compared to similar games
Mr. Prepper is also a survival-crafting game, but it focuses on an underground shelter, preparation for nuclear war, freedom, and an authoritarian government. About Gretel instead places shelter building, hunting, cooking, and crafting in a dangerous forest, with Druids and a missing-twin mystery forming its narrative context.
About Gretel: platforms & release
Is About Gretel worth it?
It is worth it if: survival-game players who want hunger, hunting, shelter building, and crafting. Skip it if: players seeking a primarily story-driven experience may find the survival routines occupy much of the play.
Where can I download About Gretel?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens About Gretel's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is About Gretel on?
Windows only.
