Indie horror The Path launches

By Robert Purchese Published 19 March, 2009

Artistic, calm, introverted, 10 bucks.

Indie outfit Tale of Tales has released its PC horror game, The Path.

The Path can be picked up for USD 10 (GBP 7) from the Tale of Tales website, Steam or Direct2Drive.

The Path, inspired by Little Red Riding Hood, follows the journeys of six girls sent to their grandmother's house, one by one. Alone on the errand, exploration of the forest soon tempts the girls, and plenty of rewards await the curious. But within each forest lives a wolf - one whose appearance and intent will not always be apparent.

Tale of Tales describes The Path as "a calm and introverted computer game that finds itself a cosy place in the dark corners of your soul". Apparently The Path explores the artistic potential of the medium, focusing on slow and considered options rather than fast and frantic reactions. The arty screenshots and videos look promising.

Head over to The Path gamepage to find out more.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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  • ZuluHero #1 3 years ago

    im kinda interested - will EG be reviewing this at all?

  • menage #2 3 years ago

    I love the looks of it. Do want to know if it's shit or not.

  • Farfarer #3 3 years ago

    Already bought my deluxe edition version :D Tale of Tales rock.

    And seeing as the deluxe ones aren't posted out until the 30th, I just bought it on Steam, too...
    Edited by 1 at 19/03/09 @ 20:56

  • jellyhead #4 3 years ago

    I've been following it for a while, it's one of those "Journey greater than the destination" games. I'm interested but i want a demo or trial version first before buying.

  • Tomo #5 3 years ago

    Looks good... might have to give this a try.

  • Eraysor #6 3 years ago

    I'm really tempted to buy this without any reviews just so nothing gets spoiled. And £7 isn't that much.

  • Reihn #7 3 years ago

    That -sounds- awesome! Reminiscent of Angela Carter's 'Company of Wolves'. Could be right up my alley.

    If only I had something to play it on.. (I lead a Mac/360/DS/iPhone lifestyle - my Pentium II PC died years ago.) Please to be reviewing, EG??

  • peak_performance #8 3 years ago

    $10 is a price I feel I can pay purely to see what the game is like after liking the videos and screens - so I bought it directly from their site. I really like the presentation of it so far, without spoiling anything the game boots up to a character selection screen at once without prompting you for anything at all. Now that itself is a feeling I like and that the games industry itself never seem to warm up to, always telling you to do this and that :)

    It's plenty beautiful as well.

  • Eraysor #9 3 years ago

    Bought it, it's very stylish. And disturbing. I need a faster PC though >_

  • Wastelander #10 3 years ago

    Oh, not heard of this. Worth a purchase?

  • the_mtfr #11 3 years ago

    I live in the same city with the devs ^^

  • Waldo #12 3 years ago

    will EG be reviewing this at all?

    It screams "art," so a 9/10 EG review is assured. ;)

  • peak_performance #13 3 years ago

    @Eraysor, what's your Post Processing Effects set to in options? I got a huge framerate boost turning it down one step from High to Low, way more than I would have thought.

  • Eraysor #14 3 years ago

    Will do, Peak. Thanks :) (you are incredibly aptly named for the advice you give!)

  • MattyD #15 3 years ago

    I just downloaded it, it's pretty awesome if you liked Ico or Silent Hill 2, or the 'arty' styling in Braid.

  • Malek86 #16 3 years ago

    Alright, I got it (when it finishes downloading, I mean). Hopefully I won't have to turn down the details by much... 8600GT isn't exactly a beast, but from the screens, it doesn't look like a beasty game either.

  • Oh-Bollox #17 3 years ago

    I'm intrigued. I may very well splash out on the collector's edition.

  • Malek86 #18 3 years ago

    My, my, what a nice game we have here. One sequence was especially creepy, the likes of which I hadn't seen in a long time. For 7.90€ feels like a good deal, especially because I've only played with one girl for now.

    Had to put post-processing to medium, but it's still good.

  • Reihn #19 3 years ago

    Just checked the website, and it says that a MacOS version is coming "by late April". Fantastic news, as it sounds like I'd really dig this game, but I don't know anyone with a PC anymore.. Which is odd considering I spent my early teens building custom Doom levels and obsessively playing Xcom: Enemy Unknown! ; )

    I'll be buying it for sure!
    Edited by 1 at 20/03/09 @ 02:54

  • Ewok75 #20 1 year ago

    The $10 pay might be just well worth it. I have been playing this the last couple of weeks and I am so into it. I even encouraged my colleagues at our Halloween Haunt website to give this a try and they 5 out of 10 of them like it :)