« Tunic is a great game, plain and simple. It feels like so much love, so much passion has been poured into it, and the final product is something truly beautiful and joyful to experience. Don’t let this be a sleeper hit, go take it for a spin and see for yourself. For me, I imagine this will be one of my games of the year. »

« 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. »

« Tunic comes at a perfect time; in the middle of a packed release schedule dripping with titles that delight in killing you, it’s a calmer, more mild-mannered take on the adventure game that wants to engage in a friendly dialogue. It doesn't want to yell at you – it wants to encourage you. To explore, engage, and experiment. 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. »

« I was constantly veering off from the main quest to track something down or look into a newly discovered path, and so it took me about 20 hours to roll credits. Despite that, I know there’s still a lot for me to do in the game, and I’m excited to go back in to find every secret and experience everything its aesthetically striking world has to offer. Tunic is a stunning achievement that manages to embody the best of nostalgia while being completely refreshing. It’s absolutely a must-play gem. »

« Tunic is a mystical gem full of elusive secrets that only reveal themselves if you take the time to do so. The basic experience of fighting in Zelda-esque dungeons is already very good, but whoever sticks a toe in the mysterious water is soon up to his neck in puzzles. »

« At a glance appearing as a polished and beautiful isometric Zelda-like starring a cute fox, Tunic offers so much more under the surface and is a must-play for fans of the genre. With a perfect balance of exploration, engaging combat, and of course, hidden secrets, Fiji and Andrew Shouldice have crafted an adventure that's well worth embarking on, and it's one that you'll likely come back to revisit time and time again. »

« Tunic is gorgeous, managing to build a world full of mystery and opportunities for exploration, with a wonderful sense of exploration. »

« To dismiss Tunic as a Zelda clone upon first glance would be doing it a huge disservice. 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. Tunic can be outright intimidating at points. However, the game does such a good job in helping bring players along, whether it's through stat upgrades or new pages of the instruction manual, that the difficulty never feels debilitating or inaccessible in any way. »

« Frustrating and obtuse. What at first seems like a charming blend of old-school Zelda and Dark Souls, in actuality Tunic is a half-baked game that fails to live up to the expectations of its influences. I kept hoping that at some point the mechanics would click, new items would enhance the combat experience, or that the unreadable written language would at some point be revealed-- none of which happened in any satisfactory way. Overall, just a disappointment I was glad to be done with, no catharsis or sense of genuine accomplishment to be found. »

« The central mechanic to collect pieces of a user manual for the game, makes it one of the best experiences I’ve ever had with a video game. Playing is like peeling back layers of an onion as you better understand the world and controls over time. The combat is challenging in later stages of the game, but exploration remains fresh and consistent through to the end. »

« Very much a case of style over substance. While it looks great and I really wanted to get lost in this world, the run backs, the deliberate obtuseness, and the tedium of the overall experience were too much for me to keep going past the second area. »

« One of the best game I’ve ever played no doubt. The sensation of being thrown in a world where you don’t know a thing and you have to find the way on your own is incredible. The manual idea is genious and all the little secrets are what makes this game a masterpiece. »

« Unfortunately terribly frustrating. The graphics and story are ok but the playability is so annoying thatI have abandoned the game numerous times. I have to say it's a waste of money. »

« Nunca pensei que me divertiria tanto com esse jogo. Eu que não ligo para troféu fui buscar a platina. Vale a pena experimentar »

« Adorable and mysterious at the same time. It makes you feel like you’re discovering a secret world, one puzzle at a time. It looks cute, but it can be surprisingly tough — in a good way. »

« 7.75/10. Does a lot of things right but doesn't seem to tie it all together as the game goes on. What Tunic does best is capture the magic of being a kid playing any of the many cryptic NES games where you might not have a manual (or the manual is not all that helpful). The developers turned what should be a bug essentially into a feature, and they do it beautifully. The isomorphic, polygon indie graphics give the game its charm. The worldbuilding and sense of mystery start off very gratifying. Where it falls short is that the game begins to rely more heavily on the clunky combat as time goes on. The isometric graphics work against the player, making exploration very clunky in places, and makes the eventual backtracking unbearable. Finally, the story, which really starts off as this sort of metacommentary on gaming, just devolves into something more trite and self-contained. This will not be cracking Jonnythecat's top 115. »