I think the developers chose a very bad title for this game.

[artzpiip]

First of all, the word "tales" is not very searchable. You search content for "tales", you'll most likely get anything but this game. It gets worse. There are many games that contain "Tales" in their title and are much more popular than this game. Finally, there is an Amiga game (although obscure) named Tales.

[Alexander Mirdzveli]

I'm sad to agree. The game looks very promising, and I would be happy if it gets as much exposure as possible. Another example comes to mind - a beautiful adventure game called Fable (1996). Just imagine how hard is to simply google it.
I don't know whether it's possible to change the name (just by adding something to it), but maybe it's worth considering.

[artzpiip]

Slain! did it be changing it to Slain: Back From Hell.

[Luigi from Fiji]

I think a lot of - if not most - one-word titles suffer from poor googlability. Doom and Limbo might pop up among top searches when googled, but they're widely recognized titles. But then I thought of this old, obscure FPS from 2003 called Chrome ;) I made the same mistake with my first game: one word, and a common word at that -- and wouldn't you know it, there were tons of other games by that name or containing that word. From then on I always went for three-word combos at least -- and even then, while I did manage to narror it down, somehow there was always this one search result that'd been there already, long before I made the game :P

[sp3lfanaaT]

Just bought the game ( i own all wadjet eye games, and games like these (kathy rain)
( from GOG so they are really mine, no drm no clients needed)

there is a walkthrough on youtube

some split it up in 12 small parts, usually an average AGS adventure takes between 2 to 4 hours provided you know where to look for an what to do, so i guess it will be more then 4 hours....
which is only 2 bucks an hour which is not that expensive, the averga eAGS games are between 9.99 and 14.99 euros.


search on you tube for Tales walkthrough and you get results.

search on youtube for:

tales Alfred Walsh and you get to the right on the screen:( i got About 292 results)

Let's Play | Tales (Ape Marina) | Gameplay/Walkthrough
Adna Plays

11:01
Tales (Ape Marina) Gameplay Walkthrough #1 | The Librarian
9:50
Tales (Ape Marina) Gameplay Walkthrough #2 | Merlin the Wizard

View full playlist (23 videos)


so usally you can find walkthroughs quite easily

[Emerald Child]

That's true. I only found this game because Steam recommended it to me because I like point and click adventures. I forgot to wishlist it and couldn't find it through search. I only found it again because I backtracked through my browser and was able to wishlist it then. I finally bought it this past Winter Sale and I'm glad I did. It's pretty good!

[Qfontan]

Awesome game so far! True to point and click fans, well written and with challenging puzzles. I have not completed it yet, bu I'll surely leave a good review once I'm done :)

I have to agree about the purely chosen title (in case the developer might ever consider another game, he might put some more thoughts into this). I think the poor sales might actually be due to this, as guides, walkthroughs and achievements are difficult to find online and in Steam due to the name being too generic.

I say it just so that it can get better in the future, because I love the game. It could have been named "Tales of Oblivion", or "Tales and Stories and Legends", or whatever makes it less confusing.

[Risingson]

Originally posted by Emerald Child:

That's true. I only found this game because Steam recommended it to me because I like point and click adventures. I forgot to wishlist it and couldn't find it through search. I only found it again because I backtracked through my browser and was able to wishlist it then. I finally bought it this past Winter Sale and I'm glad I did. It's pretty good!

Haha, it is a combination of two things that Steam seems to hate: exact title search ("Dark" is another game that cannot be found in Steam seach but outside) and point n click games, that genre that will never be part of the recommendations, ever, ever. Christ Steam, you do really hate your customer base.

[Cursed Life]

Yea they killed the game with that title