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Shadow Tale: Prologue

Shadow Tale is a 2D first-person point-and-click adventure with escape the room mechanics. Solve puzzles, meet remarkable NPCs, escape multiple rooms and unwrap a story for eventually to know about mysterious disappearances in a world which is now filled with powerful forces and entities.

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Developer
Bulat Gaineev
Publisher
Bulat Gaineev
Release
April 29, 2025
1 year and 94 days ago
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Mixed13 reviews69.2%

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About the Game

This 2D first-person point-and-click adventure with escape the room mechanics is set in a near-future world where a global cataclysm occurred some time ago. This event granted certain powers to some individuals called the Order of the Dark Parallel, allowing them to control aspects such as life and death.  

A young family of scientists is studying the impact of this cataclysm on society while investigating a series of mysterious disappearances and murders linked to the Dark Parallel. But for Adamey Bree, everything becomes personal only when opposing forces take his wife's life under inexplicable circumstances.  

Help Adamey solve all the riddles and mysteries and find out what really happened to his beloved wife.   

What you will find in this point-and-click escape room game.

  • Mystery riddles to solve and hidden objects that you should use to complete the detective story.  

  • Unique setting with a bright protagonist and NPCs.  

  • Unforgettable and touching moments that you can share with the main character.  

  • Unique art style in combination with the relaxing atmosphere and music.  

  • Single-player adventure game with brain teasing puzzles.

How to play this point-and-click adventure game.

  • Interact with objects and characters in the environment by touching them.  

  • Find hidden objects, use inventory items on game objects.  

  • Solve brain teasing puzzles, and unwrap the mysteries of this adventure detective story.  

Would you dare to know all of the secrets of the Dark Parallel, and stay alive?  

Enjoy the adventure in a unique setting and help Adamey get to the truth. 

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