Two new achievements were added at the start of 2021 for the upcoming v2.0 release. 8 months later and still no patch has been released and No communication from devs to players
I would not recommend this game or buy anything from this dev,because they seem to do not care at all about their games or customers.

Monkey Island humor meets King's Quest asthetics. All while boasting a modern interface found in today's adventure games. A really fun game by a new developer. Length and price are well matched.

Big fan of Point and Click and really loved the retro look. Game was easy enough to get 100% achievements at the time. Developer decided to add 2 more achievements over 8 months ago and they have yet to be obtainable. As an achievement hunter this type of thing I do not find acceptable. It is fine to add achievements after some time but, only if people are able to get them and not as a placeholder of sorts.

Because I am an achievement hunter I do not recommend starting this one if achievements are your goal.

I will update my review if achievements are removed and/or obtainable.

A simplified point and click game good for a few laughs. Some of the puzzles are a little out of the box. Overall, a game that never takes itself too seriously, but never breaks out on its own either.

Game is interesting, however for some years the developer Digital Bounce House added two new achievements without releasing a new update in the game. The achievements are broken and cannot be unlocked, and even though they promised they would make a new release. after two years nothing. Don't trust developers like these, Digital Bounce House.
Never in my life have i heard of a game adding new achievements without releasing a new update for the game, then lying to customer in the forums for years.

A fun game if you like traditional point-n-click adventures. Haven't finished the game myself yet, but I will say it's well worth the small price it has. I haven't run into any ridiculously difficult puzzles yet, and I'm quite enjoying the humour in the game.

Tick's Tale: Up all Knight is retro-esque light and fun point & click adventure following Tick, a young man on a knight's errand.

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• Humorous
  
• Easy to play
  
• Modest price
  
• Runs on Mac as well as PC
  
• Well-written story: enjoyable plot, standout characters
  
• Very coherent and well put together final product

• Short
  
• The replay-ability of the game is low
  
• Sound track is not as good as the other game elements

I highly recommend Tick's Tale to all point & click fans.

Tick's Tales is a point & click adventure with cool pixel art and funny dialog. I just finished it and have to say that I really enjoyed it. The puzzles are neither too hard nor too easy, interesting story, good sound effects & soundtrack and really awesome pixel art. Some people find it short, it took me around 5 hours (without guide or walk-through) to finish it, but for me the length of the game is just about right. Maybe the only thing that this game is lacking is voice acting.
If you are a fan of point & click adventures, you should definitely buy it and if you aren't fan of this kind of games, give it a try, maybe it will surprise you :)

Tick's Tales is an adventure game inspired by the golden years of the genre (King's Quest especially).

Story:

You play as Tick, he's the village troublemaker, but all he wants to be is the hero and win over the heart of his crush Georgia McGorgeous and you need to do this is complete the tests of a true hero and get the sword of blergh all while fighting a looming threat in Bloodclot.

The story of Tick's Tale is comedic and honestly quite charming. It pokes fun at the adventure genre and there's quite a few good jokes, but a good majority just end up being total misses. It's overall not very story heavy, but what's here is a pretty charming and will please fans of the genre.

Graphics:

Tick's Tale of course goes for the sort of pixelated look which was common in the genre and it nails that aspect well. I think everything looks great. It's honestly really fun to walk around and look around the environments like houses in your village, the surrounding areas and such. Albeit one of my nitpicks with the game is the character designs which are just mediocre at best, so I wish there could have been some effort put into those.

Audio:

I get that the music of the game also is going to be inspired by the classics, but honestly a good majority of the soundtrack is just absolute trash in my opinion. The music really sounds like it was taken out of a platforming game instead of being made for a point and click adventure game. There are a few nice chill songs when night rolls around, but during the day it just sounds way too upbeat and becomes sort of distracting which is disappointing. Everything like sound effects are nothing incredibly special, but do their job well.

Gameplay:

Tick's Tale is of course a point and click adventure game and the main goal is to solve puzzles to become the hero of the land. You collect items and bring them somewhere else, but also speak with people to solve puzzles. So let's talk further about the puzzles. It's of course inspired by the classics like King's Quests and the puzzles really reflect on that.

A good majority of the puzzles are rather nonsensical. There was quite a few puzzles where I was stumped to the point where I broke down and looked up a walkthrough since I simply could not figure out how to progress. But honestly that's just a few puzzles and the rest are rather well designed and really fun to solve.

The exploration itself is fun, but honestly there's a very minimal amount of locations you can visit and you will mostly go through the same five or so locations over and over until the game is over and since the game is short, it's rather disappointing. If you're a seasoned vet of the genre I expect it to take you under 2 hours to finish, but even for those who aren't major fans it won't take you longer than 3 hours to finish.

Verdict:

Tick's Tale is a great little throwback to the classics of the point and click adventure genre. It's funny, charming and fun to play, however when the issues rear their head, they end up being real ugly. I will say that it's worth checking this game out, but only if you're a fan of the genre.

Final Rating:
7/10

Pros:
+ Charming story
+ Some decent puzzles
+ Great art style

Cons:
- Insanely short
- Music is not that good
- A few really non logical puzzles

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Tick's Tales is a retro style, pixel graphic, point & click adventure game. You play as tick a young boy with a crush whom he wishes to impress. In order to do that he's got to become a knight.

The game tries to be funny but usually comes of as more cheesy but it plays off that and seems to be purposely cheesy... like naming the romantic interest "Georgia McGorgeous." It also breaks the fourth wall, acknowledging itself as a game in several places. It makes references to various games and movies/books/characters for example, naming the wizard Gandarf (likely in reference to Gandalf from 'The Lord of the Rings'). The humor is okay but nothing really funny or memorable just more cutesy.

The visuals are fine considering it's specifically trying to be a retro-style pixel graphic game. If you are looking for the latest graphics this will definitely disappoint you but as long as you are expecting pixel graphics you won't. Some of the scenes are better drawn than others. Most items you need to interact with are easily noticeable but some of them require some pixel hunting. There is no hotspot display that shows a word or highlights an item that can be interacted with. It's not bad as it's a pretty small world but a couple things are frustrating to figure out/find (I'm thinking of you "protein grass"). There's only a few screens (I think 10 total) and not all of them are available at the same time so it's not a lot of places to have to search and click through.

The interface is extremely simplistic. Everything is right on the screen, there's no menus to open except your backpack. You only have a pointer that lets you interact with your environment. You can't switch between look, walk, talk, etc... it will only react to hotspots in whatever predefined way that spot acts when clicked. There are no click through abilities so when the animations or dialogues are going you must wait till they finish. This can feel especially irritating when for example you enter the wizards shop and have to wait for him to finish his chemistry experiment each time or when you are done reading but the text is still there on the screen.

The game takes about 3 hours to play through at $8, that's about $2.67/hour of gameplay. That's a little high for my taste but if you can get the game on sale it would make it a better rate. Overall, it was a reasonably fun play but nothing very memorable with mediocre storytelling and characters. If you have 3 hours to kill, this is probably a good option assuming you like this type of game.