Tunic (video game)

Tunic is a 2022 action-adventure game developed by Isometricorp

Games and published by Finji. It is set in a ruined fantasy world,
Tunic
where the player controls an anthropomorphic fox on a journey to
free a fox spirit trapped in a crystal. The player discovers the
gameplay and setting by exploring and finding in-game pages of a
manual that offers clues, drawings, and notes. The backstory is
obscured; most text is given in a constructed writing system that
the player is not expected to decipher. Tunic's isometric perspective
hides numerous pathways and secrets.

Designer Andrew Shouldice developed Tunic, his first major

game, over seven years. He began work on it as a solo project in
2015, wanting to combine challenging gameplay with gentle visual
and audio design. He was inspired by his childhood experiences
playing Nintendo Entertainment System games like The Legend of Developer(s) Isometricorp
Zelda (1986) and trying to understand game manuals for which he Games
lacked context. Shouldice was joined during development by Publisher(s) Finji
composers Terence Lee and Janice Kwan, audio designer Kevin
Designer(s) Andrew Shouldice
Regamey, developer Eric Billingsley, and producer Felix Kramer.
Publisher Finji joined the project in 2017 and announced Tunic at Artist(s) Andrew Shouldice
E3 2017. Composer(s) Terence Lee
Tunic was released for macOS, Windows, Xbox One, and Xbox (Lifeformed)
Series X/S in March 2022, followed by ports for Nintendo Switch, Janice Kwan
PlayStation 4, and PlayStation 5 in September. It received positive
Platform(s) macOS, Windows,
reviews, especially for its aesthetics, design, and gameplay, but
Xbox One, Xbox
drew some criticism for uneven difficulty and potential for players
to feel stuck. Tunic won the Outstanding Achievement for an Series X/S,
Independent Game award at the 26th Annual D.I.C.E. Awards, Nintendo Switch,
and the Artistic Achievement and Debut Game awards at the 19th PlayStation 4,
British Academy Games Awards. PlayStation 5
Release macOS, Windows,
Gameplay Xbox One, Xbox
Series X/S
Tunic is an action-adventure game set in the ruins of a post- March 16, 2022
apocalyptic fantasy world, in which the player character, an
anthropomorphic fox, navigates the terrain and fights off hostile Nintendo Switch,
creatures. The player is initially given no directions or instructions, PlayStation 4,
and the majority of the text is in a constructed writing system, with PlayStation 5
only some words presented in the player's selected language, such September 27,
as English. The three-dimensional terrain is typically displayed 2022
from a fixed isometric view, though the perspective shifts at certain
Genre(s) Action-adventure
points.[1]
Mode(s) Single-player
The fox character moves around the world by running or dodge-
rolling; after rolling, the fox can run faster until the player stops
moving them.[1][2] The player can freely explore the world, and
there is no mandated path to follow. Although many areas require
specific actions or items to enter normally, which creates a general
order to the game, there are often alternate ways to gain entrance.[3]
The isometric view obscures numerous hidden paths and secrets.[1]
The fox with a stick equipped and
The interface has meters for the fox's health, stamina, and magic. health and stamina meters in the
Actions such as rolling consume stamina, which replenishes after a bottom left. An enemy is chasing the
[4]
few seconds. Scattered throughout the world are chests, which fox, and a shrine is nearby.
[5]
contain collectible items, weapons, or coins. Items can also be
purchased with coins from ghostly merchants found in a few hidden
paths. Some items, such as potions, restore the fox's attributes. Other items can be used in combination with
coins to increase the fox's maximum health, stamina, or magic.[6] Tunic does not have difficulty levels, but
players can toggle unlimited stamina or health in accessibility settings.[4]

Several types of weapons can be found in the game, including a sword, explosives, and magic items.[7][8]
The shield can be used to block attacks at the cost of stamina.[7] Magic weapons can use magic to fire
projectiles, slow time, or grab enemies with a lash. Bombs can be used to cause explosions or bursts of fire,
which can set enemies or the fox on fire. Enemies will chase and attack the fox on sight.[9] Defeated
enemies drop coins.[7] The player can target specific enemies to automatically direct their attacks; this also
shifts the camera, which can reveal hidden passages or objects.[4][10] If the fox dies, they drop some of their
coins and leaves behind a spirit that can be recovered on the next playthrough to return them.[4] The end of
some areas contains a unique boss enemy, which unlike regular enemies must be defeated to progress.[5]

Throughout the world are shrines with a large fox statue; kneeling at these restores the fox's health, but also
revives any defeated enemies.[7] When the fox dies, they are restored at the last shrine they have knelt at.[4]
Some areas also include a teleport mechanism in the form of a golden platform, which allows the fox to
access a realm called the Far Shore where they can exit through another golden platform in the world.[11]

Present throughout the world are pages of an in-game manual. When the player collects the page items, the
pages are added to the manual in the interface, which the player can refer to at any time. Like the in-game
text, the majority of the manual is in a constructed writing system, and the player does not encounter the
pages in order. The drawings, maps, diagrams, and handwritten notes in the manual pages give clues to the
player as to how the game works and where to go next, such as showing the fox offering items to a shrine,
which otherwise gives no indication that it can be used that way.[4]

Plot
The plot of Tunic is revealed through gameplay, the backstory and context emerging only as the fox player
character collects manual pages. This manual is written with the player as the reader. It does not explain
what the fox player-character knows about the story or if they understand the constructed language.[10]

A fox awakens on a shore, and begins to journey through the game world, which is filled with ruins. After
collecting a weapon and shield and ringing two magical bells, the fox enters a temple and then a spiritual
plane known as the Far Shore. There they encounter the spirit of a larger fox trapped in a crystal prison,
referred to in the manual as the Heir. The fox leaves to collect the three crystal keys to the prison which can
be found within dungeons across the land. If the fox is killed, the Heir revives them.
As the fox collects the crystal keys, they encounter glowing purple essence, which powers parts of the
ruins, including the golden platforms, and is relayed by glowing black obelisks. While collecting the last
key, the fox journeys through a mine—where purple essence seems to be taking over the world itself—into
an underground factory where the souls of foxes are being forcibly confined into the obelisks. After
collecting the Keys and freeing the Heir, the Heir attacks and kills the fox. The fox, now in spirit form,
appears in a night-time version of the overworld, with many paths obstructed by the purple essence. Most
enemies have disappeared and the land is instead populated by the souls of other foxes, which speak only
in the game's constructed writing system. The fox visits the six Graves of the Hero, which each return parts
of the fox's spirit and restore them to life.

Collecting enough pages of the manual reveals that there had previously been a civilization of foxes, which
looked for power from outside of reality. Seeking immortality, they found a way to entomb the souls of
foxes from the past and future into obelisks as a source of power. A religion formed around the power and
the Hero who found it, with the faithful exempt from their souls being used. This power was corrupted
through overuse, causing the purple essence to begin to erode reality and loop time. One fox, the Heir, was
trapped outside of the time loop, but acts as a beacon to draw in a replacement Heir, continuing the cycle.

If the restored fox defeats the Heir, they become the new Heir, and the game ends. The player is then given
the options to quit, to restart from the beginning in a New Game Plus mode with most of their items, or else
to restart from just before the battle. A second ending occurs instead if the player, before fighting the Heir,
follows the "golden path". This requires them to collect the pages of the manual and solve the puzzle at the
top of the mountain that uses the pages.[12] Afterwards, when the player confronts the Heir, instead of
fighting they show them the manual, showing how to break the cycle and freeing them.

Development
Andrew Shouldice began working on Tunic in February 2015, using the
working title Secret Legend.[13][14] Shouldice, who had previously made
small games for Ludum Dare competitions but never a larger solo work,
quit his job at Silverback Productions to make the game without knowing
his creative direction. He posted screenshots of his work on Twitter and
Vine, attracting immediate attention.[10][14] Within weeks, Shouldice
developed the game's fox protagonist, isometric graphical style, and
action-adventure single-player gameplay.[14] Shouldice had initially
wanted to have a human protagonist customizable by the player, but was
unable to design a character model he was satisfied with; he switched to
an anthropomorphic fox instead, which he says made sense because
"foxes get into trouble".[15] He decided early in development that his
experience as a programmer was not enough to create all aspects of the Shouldice at Game
commercial game he envisioned. At the March 2015 Game Developers Developers Conference 2023
Conference, he met with composer Terence Lee (Lifeformed) and audio
designer Kevin Regamey of Power Up Audio, who soon became the
composer and audio designer.[13]

Shouldice wanted to combine challenging gameplay with "gentle and pleasing" visual and audio design.
The colorful design was inspired by Nintendo Entertainment System games like The Legend of Zelda
(1986), and was intended to inspire players to be brave and explore new areas that may be more
challenging than they were ready for or which they felt they were "not supposed to be right now".[13][16]
He wanted players to feel "genuine discovery and mystery", both in finding parts that they did not yet
understand, and also in learning things that re-contextualized previous parts. He had a design goal of
adding "content for no one", meaning details and secrets that did not need to be found by all or any players
to be worth including.[3] The isometric viewpoint and style of Monument Valley (2014) also influenced
Tunic's visuals.[17][18]

Shouldice was inspired by the sense of mystery he had as a child when reading through game manuals such
as for Metroid II: Return of Samus (1991), without being able to understand everything he was reading due
to lack of reading ability or context.[16] He wanted to give players a sense of being presented with
something that has meaning, but which was not understandable by the player or necessarily meant for
them.[18] Shouldice also hoped that the mystery would encourage players to collaborate to solve puzzles
and give hints to each other.[16] These desires led to the use of the pages of the manual as a major design
element, written in a constructed writing system that players were not expected or required to
decipher.[13][16] Fez (2012) inspired Shouldice to create the plot's dual endings, as well as to make the
writing system not be a transliteration of English. He felt that because of Fez, players would immediately
check if the language was a simple cipher of an existing language.[18][19] He integrated a version of the
manual and its pages by June 2015.[10]

FromSoftware's Bloodborne (2015) influenced the technical combat design, with a rhythm of attacking and
dodging at a quick pace. The story also drew from that of Bloodborne, using the idea of worlds being
corrupted by the exploitation of ancient power. Tunic also shares the exploration of a "player-ambivalent
artifact" like FromSoftware's games, where the player is an insignificant character moving through a
mysterious, uncaring world.[20]

Announcement and release

After a couple years of development, Shouldice was joined by Felix Kramer, who became the producer,
leading to connecting with publisher Finji in 2017.[13][17] The game was announced as Tunic at the E3
2017 PC Gaming Show in June 2017, to be published by Finji with an expected release year of 2018.[21]
Finji presented the game again at the E3 2018 Xbox showcase in June of the following year, this time
without a release date.[13] Critics at the E3 presentations regarded the game positively; Giant Bomb,
GamesRadar+, and Destructoid all termed it the "cutest" and most "adorable" game at the 2018
E3.[22][23][24] At the 2021 E3 show IGN claimed it had been "a darling of the gaming scene for several
years now".[25] By 2020, Tunic's design was largely complete, and the development team expanded: Eric
Billingsley, who was working on his own game partially inspired by Tunic, joined as a developer and level
designer; Terence Lee, who had been intermittently composing music for the project for five years, was
joined by his wife Janice Kwan.[13][26] Allowing the fox's personality to remain undefined, the pair of
composers strove to make an "atmospheric" soundtrack that was more connected to the setting than the
fox.[3] Artist ma-ko created the artwork in the in-game manual.[27]

The release date was announced at The Game Awards in December 2021, and it launched for macOS,
Microsoft Windows, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S on March 16, 2022, with ports for Nintendo Switch,
PlayStation 4, and PlayStation 5 following on September 27, under the studio name Isometricorp
Games.[13][28] The ports were completed with assistance by 22nd Century Toys.[17][29] A digital album of
music from the game, Tunic Original Soundtrack, was released by the composers on March 16 alongside
the game.[30] A second digital album containing "initial piano concepts" of some of the tracks, Tunic (Piano
Sketches), was released on September 22, 2023.[31] Shouldice has said that the game took longer than
expected because it followed an iterative model of development, wherein he redesigned and redeveloped
nearly every element "at least once or twice" as he became more experienced as a developer and revised
the design. Lee and Billingsley instead felt that Tunic's scale and complexity made it difficult for a smaller
team to produce in a short amount of time.[13]

Reception
Reception
Aggregate score
Aggregator Score

(NS) 88/100[32]
(PC) 85/100[32]
Metacritic
(PS5) 86/100[32]
(XSXS) 86/100[32]
Review scores
Publication Score

Destructoid 9/10[33]

Game Informer 9.75/10[5]

GameSpot 9/10[4]

IGN 9/10[8]

Jeuxvideo.com 17/20[34]

PC Gamer (US) 86/100[6]

Tunic received "generally favorable reviews", according to the review aggregator Metacritic. It was ranked
as one of the top 30 games of 2022 by aggregated score for Windows, Xbox Series X/S, and PlayStation 5,
and the eighth-highest scored Switch game.[32] Tunic was featured in several game of the year lists for
2022,[35][36] including overall game of the year by VG247 and indie game of the year by
Shacknews.[37][38] Critics highly praised the gameplay, though some aspects had a mixed reception.
Several reviewers described the combat as challenging but satisfying;[2][4][5] Indee of Jeuxvideo.com
concluded that Shouldice had tried and succeeded to make the game difficult enough to make the player
feel unwelcome in the world.[34] Anne-Marie Coyle of PC Gamer and Ryan McCaffrey of IGN also liked
the boss battles, and PC Gamer considered them even better than the rest of combat,[6][8] though Jill Grodt
of Game Informer and Brendan Caldwell of Rock Paper Shotgun felt that they were too difficult compared
to the rest of the game.[5][39] Game Informer, along with Richard Wakeling of GameSpot and the reviewer
from Jeuxvideo, applauded the accessibility options to make combat easier as allowing players to continue
exploring without being restricted by the combat.[4][5][34] Reviewers in general described the game as a
mix between the gameplay of Zelda and Soulslike games or as a tribute to those games,[5][8] though Zoey
Handley of Destructoid and Christian Donlan of Eurogamer went further to describe it as based on an
understanding of what gameplay design worked for those games rather than just a copy.[2][33]

Tunic's plot received mixed opinions from reviewers. Handley applauded the way the story was told
without words, and Jeuxvideo's reviewer found the ending interesting.[33][34] The IGN and PC Gamer
reviewers found the plot interesting but secondary to the rest of the game, Coyle of PC Gamer concluding
that it was "a nice addition rather than a compelling reason to play".[6][8]
Reviewers also praised the graphics and aesthetics. Grodt of Game Informer and Wakeling of GameSpot
described the art style as "simple-but-beautiful", the GameSpot reviewer terming it an "extravagant
diorama".[4][5] The reviewers from IGN, PC Gamer, and Jeuxvideo praised the colorful and "delightful"
art style, Jeuxvideo concluding that it was a very successful art direction that resulted in a beautiful and
mysterious universe.[6][8][34] Game Informer, IGN, and Jeuxvideo also said the music was beautiful and
serene, Game Informer adding that it made "an intriguing contrast to the tough battles".[5][8][34]

The exploration and secrets were well regarded; Game Informer's Grodt concluded that "Tunic's fighting is
great, but discovery and exploration might be its most impressive elements".[5] Critics highlighted the
exploration and finding secrets as the core, Nicole Carpenter of Polygon describing it as pushing the player
to "have the courage just to try".[1][2][6] The puzzles, especially the use of the manual, were listed as
especially worthy of praise, Gamespot calling them "utterly fantastic",[4] a sentiment echoed by
Eurogamer, Jeuxvideo, Rock Paper Shotgun, and Game Informer.[2][5][34][39] Jeuxvideo, Rock Paper
Shotgun, and Game Informer's reviewers felt that the obscure and challenging nature of the puzzles meant
that players could feel stuck, particularly near the end.[5][34][39]

Awards

Tunic won the Outstanding Achievement for an Independent Game award at the 26th Annual D.I.C.E.
Awards, and the Artistic Achievement and Debut Game awards at the 19th British Academy Games
Awards.[40][41] It was also nominated for several other categories at those awards ceremonies, as well as
for categories at other awards such as The Game Awards 2022, the Golden Joystick Awards, the 23rd
Game Developers Choice Awards, and the Independent Games Festival.[42][43][44][45]
 Awards and nominations
Award Category Result Ref.

2022 Golden Joystick Awards Best Indie Game Nominated [42][46]

Best Independent Game Nominated

The Game Awards 2022 Best Action/Adventure Game Nominated [43]

Best Debut Indie Game Nominated

Outstanding Achievement in Game Direction Nominated

Outstanding Achievement in Game Design Nominated

26th Annual D.I.C.E. Awards [40]
Outstanding Achievement for an Independent
Won
Game

Adventure Game of the Year Nominated

Game of the Year Nominated

Honorable
Best Visual Art
mention
23rd Game Developers Choice [44][47]
Best Design Nominated
Awards
Best Debut Nominated
Honorable
Best Audio
mention

Seumas McNally Grand Prize Nominated

Independent Games Festival Excellence in Visual Arts Nominated [45]

Excellence in Audio Nominated

Artistic Achievement Won

Audio Achievement Nominated

19th British Academy Games [41]
Debut Game Won
Awards
Game Design Nominated

Music Nominated

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External links
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