Fit check
Is Sketch Tales worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Players who want drawing to directly create game-world objects
- Action RPG fans who prefer non-linear story choices
- Creative players interested in sandbox experimentation
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking a finished release rather than an Early Access game
- Players who prefer a tightly directed story over open-ended creation and branching choices
- Players looking for a fully featured multiplayer experience now, since shared worlds and multiplayer combat are listed for upcoming updates
Our take on Sketch Tales
The drawing-based sandbox gives players broad control over objects and character direction, but that freedom trades away a tightly authored progression path. The game’s Early Access status also means some planned systems, including multiplayer and a larger living world, are not part of the current feature set.
What is Sketch Tales?
Sketch Tales is a sandbox action RPG set in a hand-drawn world whose colors were taken by a warlock.
Drawing creates items, weapons, spells, building parts, and living beings that appear in the game. A drawn monster can become active within seconds. The game combines quests, dungeons, loot, weapons, traps, enemies, and magical anomalies with a non-linear story. Players can pursue revenge against the warlock, join him, or ignore him, while shaping a character through their choices. It is in Early Access. Planned updates include shared worlds, multiplayer exploration and combat, exchanging creations, a larger open world with random events, simulated NPC behavior, destructible objects, and cross-platform sessions.
How Sketch Tales plays
- 01Drawn Game Objects
- Artwork can become equipment, spells, construction components, creatures, and other in-game objects.
- 02Non-Linear Story
- The warlock storyline allows players to oppose him, join him, or leave the conflict aside.
- 03Action RPG Systems
- Quests, dungeons, loot, weapons, enemies, traps, and magical anomalies structure the gameplay.
- 04Character Creation
- Drawing and player choices shape a custom character and its possible path.
Sketch Tales compared to similar games
Sketch Tales combines action RPG systems with drawing-based creation and a non-linear story. Ghost of a Tale focuses on a mouse protagonist, stealth, disguises, conversations, immersion, and exploration in an animal-populated medieval world. Vagante presents dark-fantasy adventuring through monsters, demons, and crooks, while Dungeon Defenders: Awakened combines cooperative action RPG play with tower defense, loot, leveling, pets, and character customization.
Sketch Tales: platforms & release
Is Sketch Tales worth it?
It is worth it if: players who want drawing to directly create game-world objects. Skip it if: players seeking a finished release rather than an Early Access game.
Where can I download Sketch Tales?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Sketch Tales's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Sketch Tales on?
Windows only.
