$14.99 (−50%)TUNIC A Cute Fox, A Cruel World
Explore a colorful ruined land, fight through punishing combat, and decode a manual written in an unreadable language.
Is TUNIC worth it?
TUNIC is worth it if…
- you love working things out yourself, with no quest markers and no hand-holding
- you enjoy games that get genuinely hard and ask you to learn from every death
- you like a world that keeps a secret, and a manual that is itself a puzzle
- you want to take your time, look at everything twice, and maybe keep notes
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The instruction manual is the game
Somewhere in this world lie the pages of its own instruction manual: hand-drawn, full of maps, diagrams and tips, and written almost entirely in an invented script you cannot read. Collecting pages is how you progress. A page might teach a move you have needed since the first minute, or quietly explain those pillars you kept walking past hours ago. The pictures carry you far, but the real puzzles ask you to study the margins, connect drawings across pages and work out what the fox language is hiding. When a diagram you glanced at hours ago suddenly makes sense, that is the whole game in one moment.
A world that hides its own roads
The land is one intricately connected map: shady forests, sprawling ruins, labyrinthine catacombs, and places stranger still. It plays like a metroidvania, and the isometric camera is part of the design. Paths hide behind walls, under buildings, in shadow the tilted view conveniently covers, and behind waterfalls. You will regularly find that a route was open all along; you just did not know it existed. When one road is blocked, another usually leads somewhere useful, so being lost rarely means being stuck.
Combat that asks for patience
The cute fox is a lie. Combat is deliberate and demanding: dodge, block, parry and strike, with a stamina bar that punishes holding the shield up forever. Enemies hit hard, some do not flinch, and bosses each have their own patterns to learn over several attempts. Resting at a fox statue saves your game and revives everything you killed, so pushing deeper is always a decision.
What should you know before starting?
How does the story work if there is no dialogue?
There is no one to talk to and no cutscenes to sit through. The story reaches you through the world and the manual: its drawings, its maps and its unreadable fox language. You piece together what happened to this ruined land and what the legends mean, and how much of it you decode is up to you. Some players finish with only a vague idea of the plot and are perfectly happy.
What is the game actually about, moment to moment?
You explore an interconnected world, fight monsters big and small, collect items and manual pages, and poke at every suspicious wall, statue and piece of scenery. The loop is simple: go somewhere, get stuck, find a page or an item that changes what you can do, and suddenly half the map is open again. Secrets are everywhere, and finding one never really stops being satisfying.
