Hunt for the Lost Folktales

About the Game

Cursed to become the very beast that you have hunted. Will you become the next folktale to be written in the books for the Library of Lost Tales or will you take the Afterlife Scribe’s offer to hunt down escaped folktale beasts to trade for your life back from before the curse?

When the hunter becomes the hunted...

Hunt for the Lost Folktales is a folklore hunting, turn-based adventure where you follow pawprint and scent trails to track down folktale beasts escaping from their storybooks, engage in strategic turn-based tactical combat focused on stacking fear to deal damage, and capture their lost tales to return to the Library so they may live on in memory. Will you be another folktale to be written or will you rewrite your own story?

With a hunter instinct & wolf senses, you track down the escaped Folktales by following trails left behind...

• Investigate Folktale Sightings in your Hunt Contracts to discover hints of about their trails

• Sniff & Follow the pawprint and scent trails to find the escaped Elder Folktale beasts

• Uncover Hidden Rifts in the world to dive into New Locations in the Wild Woodlands

Fear is both your strength and your weakness...

• Battle folklore-inspired Beasts in Turn-based combat

• Deploy your own party of allied Folktale Recruits

• Stack up Fear on your foes to Deal Damage equal to their Fear

• Plan your strategy on how to use the Environmental Hazards to your advantage

• Defeat Folktales in combat to trap them back into their storybooks

Return captured Folktales to the feathered scribes of the Library of Lost Tales so their memory can live on...

• Capture all the Lost Folktale books to complete the Library's collection

• Get rewarded with Bones, Skulls, and Claws for returning books

• Upgrade your party of Folktales to increase their stats & unlock new combat actions

• Take on Hunt Contracts to get briefed on finding the Elder Folktales

• Dive into the Wild Woodlands world book to jump into any discovered locations

3 Wild Regions to explore... 3 Ancient Folktales to defeat... 3 Storybook Rifts to seal...

• Explore the Wild Woodlands across 3 regions each with their own environmental hazards & weather events

• Hunt & Ambush the roaming escaped folklore beasts while avoiding their detection

• Solve the Writer's Block Puzzles to gain powerful Ink Stamp combat passives for your party

• Unlock the gateway to the Ancient Folktale Boss & defeat them to seal the source of the Storybook Rifts

• Be wary & do not linger too long in one location as you're not the only hunter roaming these lands

You may enjoy this game if you like:

• Strategic Turn-based Tactical Combat - With a focus on stacking fear to maximize damage output, strategic positioning on a grid-based battlefield, using the environmental hazards to your advantage, and planning your combat turn to find action synergies between folktale beasts in your party. Every region features new folktales to battle, new status effects to counter, and new powerful passives to assign to your party.

• Tracking & Following Pawprint & Scent Trails - With a sniff of your newfound wolf senses, a detection beacon will ping on any hidden trails or dig sites in the nearby vicinity. Beware there are decoy trails too! So keep an eye on the trail details to identify the right path to follow.

• Collections for the Completionists - Lost Folktale Books, Powerful Stamp Passives, Puzzle Lore Scrolls, Oh My! For all the completionist gamers out there, the progress book menu will track all your stats on the various collections to complete. Fill up those empty library shelves with every collected folktale book! Solve every Writer's Block puzzle to collect all the stamps! Sniff through every Woodlands location to find all the hidden lore scrolls! 

• Learning about Folklore Beasts - Inspired by folklore, all the creature characters are hand-drawn recreations of what these beasts could look like based on my interpretation of researched descriptions of them. Their imagined stories are lightly told through investigating their trails and reading the scattered puzzle lore scrolls.