Dark Parables: The Thief and the Tinderbox Collector's Edition

not the ebst, but also not the worst one in the series

nice game, lovely artwork music was chill and the voice acting was ok. enjoyed the puzzles they were interesting.

Good graphics - vibrant colors and smooth. The games are fun and relaxing .. until I decide to go for a more challenging option! I'll play it again in that mode. For now, it's been fun.

This is the twelfth game in the series. Just wait to buy it in the 50% off sale that runs every now and again. I enjoyed this one, but it sort of loses the plot a bit when it comes to fairytales. It has steam cards and in-game achievements but not steam achievements. (Any missed achievements are obtainable again after completing the bonus chapters.) The release order of Dark Parables is: Curse of Briar Rose The Exiled Prince Rise of the Snow Queen SPINOFF- Fabled Legends: The Dark Piper The Red Riding Hood Sisters The Final Cinderella SPINOFF- Cursery: The Crooked Man and the Crooked Cat. Jack and the Sky Kingdom Ballad of Rapunzel The Little Mermaid and the Purple Tide November 12, 2014 Queen of Sands Goldilocks and the Fallen Star Swan Princess and the Dire Tree The Thief and the Tinderbox Requiem for the Forgotten Shadow Return of the Salt Princess The Match Girl’s Lost Paradise Portrait of the Stained Princess (released in 2019 so there's unlikely to be any more)

At 4 hours this game is not the best value but I still have to give it an enthusiastic thumbs up. The art and animations were gorgeous but the story was the star of the show. It was presented in chapters which continued into the bonus game where there was a wonderful twist ending. The ambience was consistent throughout as well. The Hidden Object puzzles were not my favourite though. They were an assembling of parts rather than found objects. Overall, an excellent, yet short, addition to a great series.

Lovely graphics, decent story, some of the non fragmented object puzzles could get a bit tedious, but overall enjoyable.

Collect it but caution ending is not what you expect. Rasputin and Kai ending? Like: responsibility seem to theme Dislike: they should added guardian story arc. Personal opinion: What happened to detective? What happened to moon priest?

This game was good.

I enjoyed this game a lot... toward the end, I was looking at the guide fairly often, though. It seems our Detective is also completely knowledgeable about alchemy, metallurgy and sorcery... the steps necessary for the story to progress did not seem at all obvious or even just hidden... they were baffling. Mind you, I did enjoy following the "recipes" needed, but if I hadn't had the guide, I would have been really floundering around without a clue as to what I should do next. Through pure trial and error and clicking on every little thing, I probably could have progressed, but it would have taken much, much, much longer than the 6 or 7 hours I spent on it. Still, as I said, I enjoyed it and will check out others in this series. The HOSs were sometimes pretty difficult, but I do wear glasses & found myself leaning into the monitor trying to pick out the differences between what may have been a piece I needed or what was just background.

Dark Parables #12. A series of fragmented object games with puzzles and stories that each stand alone, but are also interconnected in the form of recurring characters. But each game tells its own story and they can technically be played in any order. HOWEVER, this is probably the only DP game where I would strongly recommend you play two other games before this one. First, play DP #3 (Snow Queen) and then DP #7 (Rapunzel) -- including the bonus games. This story is basically a continuation of those games, and has most of the same cast of characters. Like all the newer DP games, this has fast travel. There are also achievements within the game, though they don't show up on Steam. There are collectibles that unlock lore. It also has a bonus adventure.