Tunic

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Tunic is a gorgeous homage to Zelda – a world full of mystery, puzzles, and a myriad of bosses to test your skills.

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Tunic is a gorgeous homage to Zelda - a world full of mystery, puzzles, and a myriad of bosses to test your skills.

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9/10

Richard Wakeling (GameSpot)

Tunic harkens back to the 16-bit era with a challenging adventure full of discovery and wonder.

March 16, 2022 |

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It speaks the language of games gone by while injecting both modernity and its own personal twist.

March 16, 2022 |

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9/10

Zoey Handley (Destructoid)

9/10

Ozzie Mejia (Shacknews)

Developer Finji has put together something special with this game, a game that lures players in with its adorable mascot character and delivers a deceptively difficult adventure.

March 16, 2022 |

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Richard Wakeling (GameSpot)

9/10 - (Read Review)

Tunic harkens back to the 16-bit era with a challenging adventure full of discovery and wonder.

Zoey Handley (Destructoid)

9/10 - (Read Review)

It speaks the language of games gone by while injecting both modernity and its own personal twist.

Ozzie Mejia (Shacknews)

9/10 - (Read Review)

Developer Finji has put together something special with this game, a game that lures players in with its adorable mascot character and delivers a deceptively difficult adventure.

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Outlet	Author	Score	Date	Quote	Read
33bits	Rubén Manzanares	90 / 100	03-16-2022	Without a doubt, TUNIC is one of the surprises of the year, Andrew Shouldice, has managed to create a most original metroidvania but with an improvable sound section, where everything is important and a secret awaits. A highly recommended title with an excellent artistic section that becomes a Must Have if you are a fan of the genre.	Read review
3DNews	Алексей Лихачев	9 / 10	03-26-2022	A wonderful game, reminiscent of both the old “Zeldas”, and The Witness, and Fez, and other iconic releases. Instead of completely copying ideas, it adds its own unique “chips”, thanks to which it will go down in history.	Read review
Ars Technica	Sam Machkovech	Recommended	03-16-2022	Don’t wait for Tunic to land on our year-end list. Buy.	Read review
Atomix	Sebastian Quiroz	93 / 100	03-25-2022	Thanks to a fantastic world, and a series of magnificent puzzles, Tunic is positioned as one of the best independent games of 2022.	Read review
Bazimag	Seyed Ali Rooholamini	9.5 / 10	03-21-2022	Tunic is so magnificent in every way, from gameplay to visuals, that you can’t do anything other than envy the its developer. This is without a doubt one of the year’s absolute must plays.	Read review
But Why Tho?	Mick Abrahamson	9 / 10	03-16-2022	Tunic was definitely worth the wait. I honestly can’t remember when a game has gripped me the way Tunic has. For the past two weeks, I haven’t stopped looking into certain puzzles, finding new secrets, and thinking about what I could’ve missed. It’s just amazing that the small team behind Tunic has created a game with this much depth.	Read review
Cerealkillerz	Julian Bieder	8.9 / 10	03-16-2022	Don’t be fooled by Tunic’s cute packaging: the game is quite demanding in terms of combat. When it comes to the quality of the puzzles, the game is on the same level as the platform classic FEZ. But the biggest selling point remains the mysteries that motivate you to solve another puzzle or find a collectible over and over again. An absolute recipe for success!	Read review
CGMagazine	Philip Watson	9 / 10	03-24-2022	TUNIC is a genre-bending breath of fresh air that includes elements from other popular games that all grease the wheel for an exceptional gaming experience. A must-play for all gamers, especially due to its inclusion on Game Pass.	Read review
Checkpoint Gaming	Omi Koulas	9 / 10	03-17-2022	TUNIC is a dense journey filled with hidden paths and puzzles that provide a remarkable sense of accomplishment. Using an in-game instruction manual is a brilliant idea that makes learning and gradually revealing how the world works more enjoyable. While the combat isn’t flawless, the rest of the exploration is. This is a game for fans of classic action adventures, cute little foxes, discovery, and secrets. However, the real secret is how wonderful TUNIC is.	Read review
Chicas Gamers	Antonio J. Rodríguez	Recommended	03-23-2022	Tunic isn’t the game I imagined when it was announced in 2017, it’s something better, a product that has surprised me more than expected. Normally accustomed to games where the paths are guided in excess, they have managed to find the exact route to pose a basic adventure, but covered in several layers and puzzles that make it more interesting and challenging.	Read review
COGconnected	Mark Steighner	80 / 100	03-23-2022	Tunic is a great game for a specific audience. The target gamer is someone who has patience, loves puzzles and isn’t bothered by dead ends and roadblocks. For those folks, Tunic is a delightful Zelda-inspired ARPG that unfolds into something bigger than its style suggests. Knowing the shorthand of Soulslikes mechanics will cut through some of the game’s opacity. For some, though, the game’s obstinate refusal to easily give up its secrets may be a barrier to enjoyment, no matter how lovely and inviting the game seems to be.	Read review
DarkZero	Ian Howarth	9 / 10	03-16-2022	I’ve likened TUNIC to Fez, a similarly brilliant game that also shattered expectations, hid riddles in a new alphabet, and had an entire community rally around some of the larger secrets.	Read review
Destructoid	Zoey Handley	9 / 10	03-16-2022	It speaks the language of games gone by while injecting both modernity and its own personal twist.	Read review
Digital Trends	Otto Kratky	2 / 5 stars	03-16-2022	Tunic offers players an adventure full of mystery, but delivers a purposefully obtuse world that’s impossible to sort out.	Read review
Easy Allies	Brad Ellis	4 / 5 stars	03-16-2022	Inspired by retro classics, Tunic is a charming action-adventure with a strong focus on exploration and discovery.	Read review
Eurogamer	Christian Donlan	Recommended	03-16-2022	Tunic turns its many influences into something that feels both familiar and gloriously new.	Read review
Everyeye.it	Cristina Bona	9 / 10	03-16-2022	Tunic is an unmissable adventure for all those who love to immerse themselves in an enveloping, mysterious world full of secrets to discover.	Read review
Expansive	Sally Willington	Recommended	03-22-2022	This adorable fox won’t win everyone over, but everyone else will wax lyrical about Tunic for weeks and months to come. For me, it’s a stunning triumph that enchanted me every step of the way. From its retro manuals to its hidden secrets, this is a world I lost myself in for days at a time and never wanted to leave. Nothing has come close to matching the joy I felt from Link to the Past all those years ago, until now!	Read review
Game Informer	Jill Grodt	9.8 / 10	03-16-2022	Tunic brilliantly captures the feeling of that special childhood title that made you fall in love with video games.	Read review
Game Rant	Pam K. Ferdinand	4 / 5 stars	03-16-2022	Dicey’s Zelda-inspired indie adventure Tunic gives players a magical world to explore, if they can handle the game’s difficulty.	Read review
Gameblog	Camille Allard	8 / 10	03-17-2022	Tunic is a masterpiece of adventure and exploration. More than a tribute to Zelda, it is a game that deserves your full attention.	Read review
GamesBeat	Rachel Kaser	80 / 100	03-16-2022	I enjoyed Tunic, and I was pleased during most of my time with the game. It’s challenging, but it’s also tranquil. It’s a little slice of puzzle-y goodness in the middle of multiple massive open-world releases, and for that I’m grateful it exists. I just wish sometimes Tunic would meet me halfway and not leave me frustrated either with the controls or with the exploration.	Read review
GameSkinny	Samuel Adams	9 / 10	03-16-2022	A gorgeous art style, phenomenal gameplay, and old school game design make TUNIC one of the most enjoyable indies in years.	Read review
GameSpew	Kim Snaith	9 / 10	03-16-2022	At first glance, Tunic might look like your typical breezy indie adventure. How wrong you’d be to think that. Underneath its cute exterior lies a tough-as-nails experience, designed to truly test your mettle.	Read review
GameSpot	Richard Wakeling	9 / 10	03-16-2022	Tunic harkens back to the 16-bit era with a challenging adventure full of discovery and wonder.	Read review
GamingBolt	John Cantees	8 / 10	03-17-2022	Tunic executes the ideas of classic RPGs with such confidence that it’s nearly impossible to not enjoy it.	Read review
GamingTrend	David Flynn	100 / 100	03-16-2022	Tunic sits among the pinnacle of indie titles and is just as fun as it is cute and colorful. There are an astounding amount of secrets to discover in the game and, once you’ve found everything, you can easily play it again and again to do things in a different order using your knowledge. It’s a delightful experience that I just can’t get enough of.	Read review
Geek Culture	Jake Su	9 / 10	03-17-2022	Challenging from start to end, Tunic goes far beyond expectations in creating an action-adventure that is charming, deep, and keeps you coming back for more every single time.	Read review
Generación Xbox	Alexis	9 / 10	03-16-2022	It is a marvel of the indie industry that will surely surprise more than one‎‎ with its entertaining mechanics, its careful artistic design, and an overall experience that can feel unique, even despite the familiar essence that it gives off, from inside each of its dungeons.‎	Read review
God is a Geek	Chris White	9 / 10	03-16-2022	Tunic is gorgeous, managing to build a world full of mystery and opportunities for exploration, with a wonderful sense of exploration.	Read review
Guardian	Keza MacDonald	4 / 5 stars	03-17-2022	Zelda-like adventure game starring an adorable fox recalls a pre-internet era when games felt like secret worlds	Read review
Hey Poor Player	Andrew Thornton	4.5 / 5 stars	03-22-2022	While its difficulty spikes could use a bit more balancing, it does nothing to diminish my love for Tunic. This is a masterfully designed game that challenges you to take elements of classics that have become familiar and apply them in all-new ways. Its triumphant in-game manual gave me more moments of stunning realization than every other game I’ve played in 2022. If you’re a fan of any of the titles that stand as major influences to Tunic, you owe it to yourself to check this one out.	Read review
Hobby Consolas	Alberto Lloret	90 / 100	03-16-2022	The best “Zelda” that isn’t coming from Nintendo, an unique adventure both in visuals and presentation that puts on the table smart and intelligent ideas. A game that any adventure fan looking for a new challenge should play on Xbox or PC. As simple as that, go and play it. You won’t be disappointed.	Read review
IGN	Ryan McCaffrey	9 / 10	03-17-2022	Tunic is an unapologetically challenging action-adventure game that is charming, multi-layered, and immensely rewarding to solve.	Read review
IGN Italy	Francesco Destri	7.8 / 10	03-16-2022	Tunic manages to take something (obviously on a smaller scale) from Zelda, Dark Souls and Death’s Door, resulting in a challenging and fascinating action-adventure even if it lacks any truly original ideas.	Read review
Jump Dash Roll	Rob Kershaw	9 / 10	03-30-2022	If you’re looking for an isometric RPG with a nostalgic aesthetic and Souls trimmings, Tunic is it: a tough, beautiful action-adventure which rewards the patient and batters the reckless.	Read review
JVL	French_Fantasy	8.5 / 10	03-16-2022	What a nice surprise this Tunic is. A true love letter to the first Zelda with a souls-like underlay to modernize everything, the game manages to keep players on their toes with its intelligent progression system, mechanics that renew themselves and its enchanting universe that hides much more than it seems.	Read review
Metro GameCentral	GameCentral	8 / 10	03-16-2022	Old school adventure sensibilities and an expertly-designed puzzle box world combine in this charming and engaging indie gem.	Read review
New Game Network	Dylan Blereau	77 / 100	03-16-2022	Tunic is an isometric action adventure with colorful visuals, fun exploration and well executed combat, though its insistence on lack of player guidance can make for a few frustrating moments.	Read review
NoesPaisparaFrikis	Impozible Julin	9.5 / 10	04-07-2022	Un juego que toma cosas de aquí y de allá pero las hace suyas y construye cosas nuevas sobre éstas.	Read review
Oyungezer Online	Sabri Erkan Sabanci	8.5 / 10	03-31-2022	If you were looking for a foxy answer to the question “What would happen if Zelda was a Soulslike?” (I don’t know why you’re looking in a foxy way), you found it.	Read review
Paste Magazine	Mik Deitz	9.5 / 10	03-24-2022	Shouldice and crew looked back to the past and pulled from the present to craft an endlessly engaging puzzle-box that’s chock full of secrets, many of which I still haven’t found. I can already hear the siren call of discovery pulling me back, and it sounds a lot like ambient techno. Are you curious enough to heed it?	Read review
PC Gamer	Anne Marie Coyle	86 / 100	03-29-2022	Delightfully difficult combat and meaningful exploration make Tunic a retro-inspired modern marvel.	Read review
Polygon	Nicole Carpenter	Recommended	03-16-2022	It felt nostalgic, like playing a video game sitting next to a friend, taking turns flipping the manual pages back and forth. It felt like making notes in those margins, circling hints and clues to come back to later. Sometimes, it was utterly surprising. A person found something so bizarre, unlike anything I’d seen yet in this world	Read review
Rock, Paper, Shotgun	Brendan Caldwell	Recommended	03-16-2022	An isometric homage to Zelda that is loyal from top to bottom.	Read review
Saving Content	Evan Rowe	5 / 5 stars	03-16-2022	I could gush about TUNIC for ages. I have been eagerly awaiting its release for almost five years, knowing from the moment I laid eyes on it that it was going to be amazing. It’s been a long time coming, but it has lived up to every expectation I had and more, delivering an unforgettable title that is immediately going down on my list of personal favorites. TUNIC is a charming, engaging labor of love that begs you to uncover its secrets. It is the culmination of so much of what made me fall in love with video games as a kid, and it is the perfect game for anybody looking for their next foray into adventure.	Read review
Screen Rant	Jamie Russo	4 / 5 stars	03-16-2022	There are a lot of interesting and dangerous places in Tunic that offer enough diversity to make the game exciting the whole way through. The fixed camera angle makes it easy to miss hidden areas, such as a path behind a waterfall or a room around the corner, but discovering new sections of Tunic is part of what makes it so fun. The possibility that anything can be cleverly hidden just outside of view makes exploring worthwhile. Tunic is a highly enjoyable action-adventure game that does well in honoring some of the classic titles it was inspired by.	Read review
SECTOR.sk	Matúš Štrba	8 / 10	03-25-2022	Playing Tunic feels like revisiting something old, not like something new and original. It’s an engaging indie gem with beautiful graphics and oldschool adventuring, but its lack of narrative can make you feel lost and not interested.	Read review
Shacknews	Ozzie Mejia	9 / 10	03-16-2022	Developer Finji has put together something special with this game, a game that lures players in with its adorable mascot character and delivers a deceptively difficult adventure.	Read review
Slant Magazine	Steven Scaife	4 / 5 stars	03-16-2022	Where other isometric games of this sort heavily telegraph areas and objects that you should return to later, the levels here subtly fold in on themselves in ways that are both slyly hidden and obvious in hindsight. Tunic appears unassuming and even a little routine on the surface, but it constantly reveals how clever it is every time it encourages us to take a closer look.	Read review
SpazioGames	Daniele Spelta	7.5 / 10	03-16-2022	Tunic is fascinating and surprisingly deep.	Read review
TechRaptor	Unknown	9 / 10	03-16-2022	Drawing inspiration from classic Legend of Zelda titles, Tunic makes heavy use of its in-game instruction manual, but the mysterious language can sometimes prove to be restrictive.	Read review
The Escapist	KC Nwosu	Recommended	03-16-2022	Video Review	Read review
The Game Crater	Max Mitchelson	8 / 10	03-16-2022	TUNIC is an obtuse deconstruction of the original Legend of Zelda, capturing its spirit and modernizing it with a soulslike edge.	Read review
The Games Machine	Redazione	8 / 10	03-16-2022	Tunic is a title capable of being respected, a product that allows Andrew Shouldice to enter the videogame market with a commendable impact.	Read review
TheSixthAxis	Steve C	9 / 10	03-24-2022	Tunic had a lot to live up to after years of built up expectation, and it doesn’t just meet them, it shatters them and stands out as one of the most joyous gaming experiences I’ve had in years. It takes a little while to feel at home in Tunic’s gorgeously rendered world, but once it clicks and the secrets of the masterfully constructed in-game manual start to reveal themselves, the resulting game is up there with the likes of Zelda in terms of exploration and discoveries.	Read review
TheXboxHub	Dave Ozzy	4.5 / 5 stars	03-26-2022	We’d use one word to sum up TUNIC: delightful. Few games will make you feel so skillful and clever, and fewer still will have the ability to slap a grin on your face.	Read review
TrueGaming	Unknown	9 / 10	03-18-2022	Tunic offers us a wonderful and harmonious adventure in its various elements, simple narrative and lack of insinuations that prompt you to explore and reward rewards that encourage you to continue with an excellent challenge and a smooth and simple style of play, an experience that we undoubtedly recommend to all fans of the genre.	Read review
Twinfinite	Chris Jecks	4.5 / 5 stars	03-16-2022	Every once in a while, a true indie gem comes along.	Read review
VG247	Dom Peppiatt	Recommended	03-16-2022	It’s the perfect palate cleanser, taking anywhere between six and 20 hours, and absolutely essential if you’ve got a fondness for adventure games with a potion in their pocket, a cape around their neck, and a twinkle in their eye.	Read review
VideoGamer	Josh Wise	8 / 10	03-24-2022	And yet, despite its obvious muses, Tunic manages to rise above mere flattery, by paying deeper homage to the medium itself.	Read review
WayTooManyGames	Jordan Hawes	9.5 / 10	03-16-2022	Tunic may have been a long time coming, but the wait was absolutely worth it. This little indie game has so much heart, and challenged me in more ways than I was expecting. The complete mystery of the world and how it lets the player discover things naturally without the hand-holding nature of most games is a breathe of fresh air. Its difficulty and lack of pushing the player through may turn some off, but trust me when I say that accomplishing the puzzles in this game are rewarding. For me, Tunic is an absolute must-have.	Read review
Wccftech	Unknown	8 / 10	03-16-2022	Tunic is a charming, absorbing adventure that recaptures the feel of the original The Legend of Zelda better than almost any other game out there (including some of Nintendo’s own efforts). The game’s enigmatic nature won’t be for everyone and a late-game difficulty spike may frustrate even old-school fans, but overall, Tunic is a successful link to the past.	Read review
WellPlayed	Mark Isaacson	9 / 10	03-17-2022	Tunic surprises and delights. It doubles down on its environmental storytelling which may put off those looking for a cruisy experience, but true adventurers will be well pleased with the little fox and his quest.	Read review
Windows Central	Cole Martin	4.5 / 5 stars	03-16-2022	Tunic’s world is as mysterious as it is beautiful. The world is a treasure trove of puzzles to solve coupled with a myriad of bosses determined to test your fortitude.	Read review
Worth Playing	Cody Medellin	9 / 10	03-16-2022	Tunic is an absolute gem of a game. The combat is exciting without being overly difficult or frantic. The exploration feels organic without dragging on for too long. The dual inspirations of The Legend of Zelda and Dark Souls complement each other, and the isometric viewpoint makes it feel fresh when compared to other titles inspired by one of the aforementioned games. The time needed to knock out the campaign feels just right, while still naturally encouraging you to try another run to see all of the game’s secrets. With no real negatives to speak of, it feels only right that Tunic occupy a spot in the library of any adventure fan.	Read review

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Tunic is an action adventure about a tiny fox in a big world. Explore the wilderness, discover spooky ruins, and fight terrible creatures from long ago.

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