AdventureFit check
Is Escape Tales: The Awakening worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Escape-room fans who want a narrative puzzle game
- Players who enjoy deciphering clues and uncovering mysteries
- Story-focused players who want choices to affect the ending
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players who prefer a linear story with one predetermined conclusion
- Players who want a single setting rather than exploration across eight locations
- Players seeking a game without more than 20 puzzle challenges
Our take on Escape Tales: The Awakening
The emphasis on open exploration and consequential choices may suggest a broad adventure, but the stated structure is a contained puzzle experience across eight locations with more than 20 challenges and several possible endings.
What is Escape Tales: The Awakening?
Escape Tales: The Awakening is a narrative puzzle game about Sam, whose wife died several years ago and whose daughter has fallen into a coma for unknown reasons.
Sam discovers the Book of Rituals, which contains instructions for a mysterious awakening ritual, and prepares to perform it in his basement. The game combines an unfolding story with more than 20 puzzles involving cryptic clues and hidden mysteries. Players can explore eight locations freely, with several possible ways to leave each one. Puzzle solutions, routes, and decisions affect the story and its ending. The narrative focuses on loss, redemption, moral choices, and the echoes of a forgotten past. The game is based on an escape room card game.
How Escape Tales: The Awakening plays
- 01More Than 20 Puzzles
- Challenges involve deciphering cryptic clues and uncovering mysteries.
- 02Eight Distinct Locations
- Areas can be explored freely and may provide several ways to leave.
- 03Choice-Based Story
- Puzzle solutions, chosen routes, and decisions influence the narrative.
- 04Different Endings
- The story can conclude in different ways depending on the choices made.
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Escape Tales: The Awakening: platforms & release
Is Escape Tales: The Awakening worth it?
It is worth it if: escape-room fans who want a narrative puzzle game. Skip it if: players who prefer a linear story with one predetermined conclusion.
Where can I download Escape Tales: The Awakening?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Escape Tales: The Awakening's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Escape Tales: The Awakening on?
Windows only.
