An unusual concept about placing locations and characters in the correct sequence to get the scenario required by the task, for example, the queen must notice the king with his mistress, in order to then throw her off the cliff, and stuff like that, the puzzles click quickly like nuts, there are several different themes, although one of the most interesting with a vampires for some reason was used only in 2 levels,
to complete the game you need to score 51 stars out of about 53/54 max., in some levels there is a additional pod-scenario, I didn`t have time to complete it, because the last 2 levels are already too confusing "santa barbara", you will be given the opportunity create family ties to characters, and you need to make the uncle kill the mistress, who is his daughter or something like that)
I can’t blame the game for its short duration, since drawing so many funny animations is only worthy of praise, but I can scold it for a little variability, it’s not possible to complete the scenario in your own way, which makes the game quickly boring even after 2 hours.

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Необычная концепция про расстановку локаций и персонажей в правильной последовательности для получения, необходимого заданием, сценария, например, королева должна заметить короля с любовницей, чтобы потом сбросить её с обрыва, и всё в таком духе, головоломки щёлкаются быстро, как орехи, есть несколько разных тематик, хотя одну из самых интересных с вампиром, почему-то использовали только в 2 уровнях,
чтобы пройти игру вам надо набрать 51 звезду из где-то 53/54 максимальных, в некоторых уровнях присутствует "задача со звёздочкой", я не успел допройти, потому что последние 2 уровня это уже слишком запутанная "санта-барбара", вам дадут возможность создавать родство персонажам, и нужно сделать так, чтобы дядя убил любовницу, которая его дочь или тип того)
Не могу ругать игру за короткую продолжительность, так как отрисовка такого количества забавных анимаций достойна только похвалы, но могу поругать за маленькую вариативность, выполнить сценарий как-то особо по своему не получится, от чего игра быстро наскучивает даже за 2 часа.

Storyteller is definitely an interesting game, but I'm not really convinced by what it ends up doing. I don't really mind the short runtime, though I do feel like it's a little undercooked - I only ever had to really think about 10 of the 51 stages. The game essentially asks the player to reproduce and rearrange tropes in a certain way, or as the developer put it "play with the common sense and instincts you bring from outside videogames." I want to highlight that comment because "common sense" here means mostly knowledge of tired (hetero-)normative tropes and concepts.

In other words: Storyteller reproduces and lets you reproduce boring and vain fairytale tropes in search of something fun to salvage from them. It rarely succeeds and only lays bare how... boring they actually are. You're never asked to re-think tropes, only to rearrange them. And I think that's the key to why I don't vibe with this game - it's a missed opportunity that made the whole experience really dull overall. There's a lot of potential for deconstruction in the concept, but Storyteller never manages to break free from the tropes it cemented into its gameplay system.

Storyteller is an open-ended puzzle game where you are given a title of a story and you must use the given elements like characters and scenarios to fulfill that title. The game is overall on the easier side but doesn't hesitate to ratchet up the difficulty when some scenarios allow for a multitude of outcomes. I was thoroughly impressed at the variety in puzzles and how versatile one background tile could be in telling a story beat. The common complaint with this title will be its length. It has about 50 excellent levels, and some have optional hidden objectives as well as a few achievements in the mix. I do wish there was more here, either that all of the levels had hidden objectives or that there was a sense of more levels in the future. For now, it's a charming well-crafted puzzle game that begs for DLC chapters as soon as it can.

I was so looking forward to this, the idea of piecing together characters and scenes to create plot was a great one. Bought on release and about an hour later I'm left staring at the end credits already thinking "is that it? It's already 100% completed?"

Seriously was expecting a little bit more here, be it some slightly more difficult puzzles or a bit more freeform creativity to some of the solutions. As it stands there really just isn't enough here to warrant a full purchase. I'm deeply disappointed.

This is one of those indie games that I've been waiting for since the demo version was released. And so, the release took place quite recently, I passed the game and was very happy, but there are disadvantages (

The game provides an unusual gameplay that is based on puzzles and honestly they are quite easy, stupid only over the last levels. It's short and I passed it in an hour and a half, that's what really upset me. I would like more, but I understand that even at this scale the game was difficult to make. Draw everything, all animations.

In general, about the game itself, you have to make fairy-tale stories, someone has to poison the king, kill the duke or cheat on his wife. It was quite interesting to make up all these stories, but it seemed to me that the most interesting thing was with the werewolf and the Duke and Duchess. The vampire stories weren't bad either.

In general, I am glad and enjoyed it for an hour and a half, the expectations were met, so to speak, but again a huge minus that it is short and in the end they have already completely bent that it is necessary to kill the father of her child who is his brother. Rough.

Storyteller is a fun concept that is at its best when it tries to challenge the most common logic, but it does it far too rarely and doesn't incentivize much experimentation.

At first look most stories are simple and you have to do some basic stuff to get it to happen, the animations and reactions from the characters are cute and interesting, but as I said it is better when the unexpected happens, I will avoid spoilers but some interactions are really funny.

While playing normally you'll stumble upon one or other funny scene, but the achievements on Steam are something that should have been integrated more with the game, weird situations like that are fun to see but you'll never glimpse that if you just complete the book and bonus titles. It is a nice playground, but there is little push or freedom to make you explore more crazy narratives.

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A puzzle game with a great idea, purely focused on logic. It is true that some parts can be repetitive, but it is very fun and ends up leaving you wanting more partly because of its scarcity, but mostly because of how well executed it is.

Un juego de puzles con una idea magnífica, puramente centrado en la lógica. Cierto es que algunas partes pueden ser repetitivas, pero es muy divertido y termina por dejar con ganas de más en parte por su escasez, pero sobretodo por lo bien ejecutado que está.

This is a brilliant game that isn't quite as fully-featured as I want it to be - it's short and easy, with fewer optional challenges than I'd like, and the few times it gets challenging are overly fiddly.

Still, the core mechanic is magical and I'm relieved that it came out at all. I first saw Storyteller at a local indie game event roughly a decade ago, when I was in university, the Toronto indie scene was amazingly vibrant and the future seemed limitless. It was one of probably 6 or so games that blew me away and I was bummed when 5 years later I realized it had never come out. I couldn't believe it when 5 years after that it popped up as a Steam demo, and it's still wild to me that I actually get to play the complete game. Despite whatever small misgivings I have about it, it's a privilege that it exists and it's probably worth your time too.