Forget maritime law, it's all about 'Writer's Law' now and how you've broken it in The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales.
' Dishonored-like stylized Victorian vibe, and then pleasantly surprised indeed to see it already has a free Steam demo and impending June 22 release date. I decided to load into that demo to see about all this tale thieving myself.
Bookwalker primarily plays like a point-and-click adventure, but it also has turn-based battles and tight resource management, a combination that reminds me of last year's. The Bookwalker also boasts an interesting dual-world mechanic where you switch between first-person exploration of an apartment building in the"real" world, and the isometric puzzling and battling of its"fictional" worlds.
You play as a writer in a surreal, alternate universe where words have magical power, but you've been shackled with writer's block for having broken"Writer's Law." A black market contact offers to liberate you in exchange for entering the dreamlike realities of various books and pulling items out of them into the real world, something I'm guessing is quite illegal under"Writer's Law.
One thing that I already appreciate is how willing The Bookwalker is to punk me. In one of the first rooms of the prison, a key lay enticingly on top of a grate. I interacted with it and oh no! It was heated up by rising steam, I burned my fingers, and dropped it down to the next level. When I found the key again one floor down, I dropped it,this time startled by a noise elsewhere in the prison.
I also enjoy the strange alternate reality The Bookwalker is building, especially how your first person exploration of the"real" world contrasts with the isometric puzzling of the book layer. You can check out The Bookwalker's demo on
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