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Foretales

86% positive of 789 Steam reviews

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Released
2022
Steam Deck
Playable
Platforms
Steam, GOG, Epic, Amazon

Made by Alkemi. Published by Dear Villagers.

About the game

Decide the fate of the world in this ingenious story-driven card game. Foretales offers a unique take on the adventure genre, with a multitude of playstyles and story paths through which you can save the world… or bring about its end.

Tagged by players

  • Dynamic Narration
  • Card Game
  • Card Battler
  • Tabletop
  • Board Game
  • Choose Your Own Adventure
  • Interactive Fiction
  • Multiple Endings
  • Choices Matter
  • Combat
  • Cinematic
  • Story Rich

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What players say

  • Recommended
    Good story, great characters, interesting gameplay but not without flaws. (it often encourages tedious and time-consuming hoarding despite saying otherwise)

    80 h played when written. 0 found it helpful.

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  • Recommended
    Cute puzzle game with an engaging story. Though there are cards this is far from a strategic deck builder. All the cards have vague abilities instead of stats and you use those abilities in creative ways to progress the story. Well worth the price, especially on sale.

    25 h played when written. 0 found it helpful.

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  • Not recommended
    There's a lot of great potential here, but also a lot of cringy, moralizing dialogue that chastises you for not being good enough for the author's taste. Too much repeating dialogue breaks the immersion of the world. The choices with actual consequences are good, but not great. I was pretty hooked until midway during the first act, then I started getting bored and almost fell asleep during the Isenberg thing. I…

    3 h played when written. 47 found it helpful.

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