The Book of Unwritten Tales: The Critter Chronicles
Skip · Narrative · 2012
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$19.99Skip
On its price record
$16.48Fair
- Length
- 7.3h 10.5h to 100%
- Value
- $2.74/hr
- Reviews
- 84% of 468 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $16.48 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
Enjoy a thrilling and hilarious point-and-click adventure in the fantasy world of Aventasia
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, DirectX 9c compatible graphic card with 128 MB RAM, Pixelshader 2.0, 6 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
91 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 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 25 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 77 percent. Gibbous - A Cthulhu Adventure ($19.99, scores 62) outscores it, and so does Lost in Play ($19.99, scores 66). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about The Book of Unwritten Tales: The Critter Chronicles
The press gave it 73; the people who bought it give it 84 percent. An 11-point gap in the buyer's favour.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 7.3 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
78% start to 23% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 11, 10:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Not as good as the magnificent parts 1 and 2 of the series, but very nice nonetheless. Interestingly, it plays perfectly in 4k.
2 more reviews
The game has the same graphics as the original first title, but it has more puzzles than the original. Sometimes it's a bit annoying that you can't solve things straight away, but well… it's an old-school adventure game, so I guess that's how it's supposed to be. With the bottle in Chapter 4 I was running around for almost two days until I finally understood that I just needed to look at it again. I thought I had...
Story is okay, not on King's Quest level, but entertaining enough. Main character is also well-written. I especially loved how this game made fun of PETA, you know, Petra --> PETA, and how illogical and obnoxious they actually are. Also, there are some easter eggs, like Layla from Star Wars.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
The Book of Unwritten Tales: The Critter Chronicles scores 48/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/221830/the-book-of-unwritten-tales-the-critter-chroniclesReviews 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 Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.