Hunt for the Lost Folktales

Cursed to become the very beast that you have hunted. Will you become the next folktale to be written in the books for the Library of Lost Tales or will you take the Afterlife Scribe’s offer to hunt down escaped folktale beasts to trade for your life back from before the curse?

When the hunter becomes the hunted...

Hunt for the Lost Folktales is a folklore hunting, turn-based battling, creature collector adventure where you follow pawprint and scent trails to track down folktale beasts escaping from their storybooks, engage in strategic turn-based tactical combat focused on stacking fear to deal damage, and capture their lost tales to return to the Library so they may live on in memory. Will you be another folktale to be written or will you rewrite your own story?

With a hunter instinct & wolf senses, you track down the escaped Folktales by following trails left behind...

• Investigate Folktale sightings in your Hunt Contracts to discover their trails.

• Follow the pawprint and scent trails to find the escaped Elder Folktale beasts.

• Sneak stealthily to avoid the detection of patrolling Folktales or Ambush them into battle.

Fear is both your strength and your weakness...

• Fight fearsome Folklore Beasts in Turn-based combat on a grid-based battlefield.

• Stack up Fear on your enemies to inflict Damage equal to their Fear.

• Defeat Folktales to return them to their storybook form so you can capture their tale.

Return captured Folktales to the feathered scribes of the Library of Lost Tales so their memory can live on...

• Return books to the Library to get rewarded with Bones and Claws.

• Upgrade your party of Folktales to increase their survivability and unlock new combat skills.

• Dive into the Wild Woodlands world book to collect them all.

3 Wild Regions to explore... 3 Storybook Rifts to seal...

• Explore the Wild Woodlands across 3 regions each with their own environmental hazards & weather events.

• Solve the Writer's Block Puzzles to gain powerful Ink Stamp combat passives for your party.

• Beware of the roaming Hunter as you are not the only hunter roaming these lands.

Full Game Content Features:

• 16 Hunt Contracts to guide you through the folklore hunting experience

• 25 Level Locations to explore the wild, battle folktales, and discover buried curiosities

• 100+ Battles with Folklore Beasts along with 13 Elder Hunt Challenges

• 150+ Folktale Books to collect and return to the Library of Lost Tales

• 13 Writer's Block Puzzles to solve that each grant powerful Ink Stamp combat passives

• 4 Party Recruits to upgrade and deploy to aid you in battle

• Upgrades for your Party of Folktales to enhance your battle strategy & survivability

• Shop for Trinkets that grant special abilities to aid you in exploration and combat

• 3 Difficulty modes to allow you to choose how you want to play

You may enjoy this game if you like:

• Witcher meets Into the Breach - With the investigation and tracking of folklore trails inspired by the Witcher mixed with the strategy-puzzling combat inspired by Into the Breach, this indie game is inspired to bring the folklore hunting exploration together with deep strategy tactics in the turn-based battles with these creatures.

• Strategic Turn-based Tactical Combat - With a focus on stacking fear to maximize damage output, strategic positioning on a grid-based battlefield, using the environmental hazards to your advantage, and planning your combat turn to find action synergies between folktale beasts in your party. Every region features new folktales to battle, new status effects to counter, and new powerful passives to assign to your party.

• Tracking & Following Pawprint & Scent Trails - With a sniff of your newfound wolf senses, a detection beacon will ping on any hidden trails or dig sites in the nearby vicinity. Beware there are decoy trails too! So keep an eye on the trail details to identify the right path to follow.

• Collections for the Completionists - Lost Folktale Books, Powerful Stamp Passives, Puzzle Lore Scrolls, Oh My! For all the completionist gamers out there, the progress book menu will track all your stats on the various collections to complete. Fill up those empty library shelves with every collected folktale book! Solve every Writer's Block puzzle to collect all the stamps! Sniff through every Woodlands location to find all the hidden lore scrolls! 

• Learning about Folklore Beasts - Inspired by folklore, all the creature characters are hand-drawn recreations of what these beasts could look like based on my interpretation of researched descriptions of them. Their imagined stories are lightly told through investigating their trails and reading the scattered puzzle lore scrolls.