The Book of Unwritten Tales
Worth it · Narrative · 2012
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 75% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$19.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$4.9975% offWorth it
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.54/hr
- ReviewsS
- 91% of 2,170
- Critics
- 82 players 9 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 5% Narrative
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 13h
- To 100%
- 16h 1.2x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 94 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $1.99 September 2014
- Sale every
- 50d last September 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 2 now
- Cheaper than
- 6% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 93% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
94 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 5 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, King's Quest (free, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats Thimbleweed Park™ ($19.99, scores 71).
More about The Book of Unwritten Tales
Critics scored it 82. Players sit 9 points higher at 91 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
2 of the 346 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 60 percent of the 101 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
A very old school but fun point and click game. The game offers character switching in order to solve some easy - medium level puzzles. Good voice acting, and storyline.
2 more reviews
A fun adventure game with a great sense of humor. If you enjoy classic point-and-click adventures with clever puzzles and charming writing, this delivers. It doesn't take itself too seriously and that's what makes it great.
This is basically Monkey Island meets Lord of the Rings. It's a classic point and click adventure game in a fantasy setting, with a ton of tongue-in-cheek and troperiffic humor. It's quite long (although not 25 hours long like my total playtime might suggest), but a lot of fun, with snappy dialogue and likeable characters.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
In a world torn by war, the aged gremlin archaeologist Mortimer MacGuffin harbors the dark secret of a powerful artifact.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Direct-X 9c compliant video card with 128 MB RAM, PixelShader 2.0, 6 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
The Book of Unwritten Tales scores 72/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/215160/the-book-of-unwritten-talesReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.