A Plague Tale: Innocence

Strong story, great music, beautiful art design, simple and enjoyable gameplay, overall great

Graphics: Amazing! I probably spent more time taking screenshots than actually playing the game. Story: Great! It has it's low points but the overall story will keep you hooked. Characters: This is the big one. I love this entire cast. Honestly there may be 1 character I didn't care for out of the entire cast and I mean the villains too. While the game does have an "escort mission" style of gameplay Hugo does not get in your way and is a wonderful character himself. He's always by your side. I have heard people talk about if you leave him for too long then he starts crying and will alert guards but I never let go of his hand. The mechanic is there but I never used it. So basically you can do the entire game without releasing him other than little puzzle spots. The other complaint I see a lot of is that the game is "just a stealth game" or "boring" if you're not into stealth games then you probably won't like this but if you're curious I highly suggest you give it a go. Yes the game is very easy (had a few parts that stumped my little brain but that doesn't mean a lot). The gameplay CAN get a little repetitive but the game gives you opportunities to use combat instead of stealth. I didn't care for the combat though honestly as the controls aren't tight enough for the combat to be effective with multiple enemies about. Anyway I cannot suggest this game enough. Please give it an honest go and you'll love it I promise.

Overall a good experience and worth playing from start to finish, consider using French audio with English subs Gameplay itself is alright but not the main focus Story is interesting and pretty good The music is great, some of it I really really enjoyed Heard the second one is even better and will be playing that next If you like story games, get the bundle on sale

A Plague Tale: Innocence indisputably placed itself among my favorite games of all time right away. I wish I could play it for the first time again. There is something so, so compelling to its story and characters, and I am utterly entranced by the music score. The gameplay, for the most part, feels so natural to learn and so rewarding to master. My biggest criticism I have for it lies merely in the lack of exploration allowed. There are invisible walls everywhere to keep you on track, and multiple times when it breaks its own logic to prevent you from deviating from the path it has set for you. This really comes to a head at one point in the story where it almost feels as if you can do something to change the course of events, and from looking online I am assured I am far from the first to try for hours. Those who have played through already will probably know what I mean, but I am being deliberately vague so as not to spoil those who haven't. But, I do wish the player's choices and actions mattered slightly more... perhaps not insofar as multiple endings, but merely small outcomes throughout. Anyways. All that can easily be forgiven as it is ultimately very strongly story-driven. And what a story it is. I struggle to explain it when I have been asked. I just... I love this game and I have listened to its score so, so often since playing it through.

One of the best game I've ever played. The graphics & the story of the game are top notch and is also well optimised.

Too linear it is boring. The story is good and characters are alright, but something is lost in the tedium of the straight paths. A limited challenge, neither rhythm, nor challenging timing, it is very straightforward and lacks immersion as a result.

An interesting well rounded experience. It has some minor rough parts, there were a few encounters I found a little frustrating. The story gripped me from the start and the graphics are gorgeous even in 2025. The gameplay is all about stealth and predicting enemies path and behaviors. The levels do not overstay their welcome and it is well paced, the puzzles are straightforward not overly hard which is nice since you die with ease. I don't know why I held off on playing this one, I guess I thought it had horror elements-- it is dark and twisted at times but horror is not the category this game falls in. I can see why people may complain it is a rather short game for the price but there is some replayability, you can revisit levels from the main menu once beaten so you can go achievement hunting with relative ease. Though these levels are rather linear, it is doesn't allow for a lot of creativity as it is clear the game wants you to beat these a specific way. Also if you are squeemish it may not be the game for you but I thought of the swarms of rats get less disturbing over time. If you feel like that 10 hrs is rather short for a game this price, maybe wait for a sale. But this is a gem of a game, and I can tell the developers put a lot of work and love into this. I can't wait to play Requiem next! Pros: - Great story - Beautiful graphics - Fun levels that can be revisited Cons: - Linear levels - Simple Ai - Short game TLDR, Recommended, full price or maybe on sale if uncertain about price.

A Plague Tale is a game that evoked emotions in me. I immersed myself in this harsh world and empathized with the characters. I held on as best I could, but at the end of the game, I cried. The musical accompaniment is 10/10.

I recommend this game because there's nothing really wrong with it, but there's nothing really great either. First, know what to expect : you are given several tools, but you hardly ever choose what to use in any given situation or puzzle. There is one solution and you have to use it. This is not an immersive sim. Also, none of your actions influence the story and you do not have choices to make. This is not an RPG. Plague Tale is somewhere between a point-and-click and a walking simulator. I didn't enjoy the forced linearity and passivity. A "corridor"-type game can be fun, but here more often than not the camera is taken away from you, and you spend your time trying to see what the game wants you to do. You're not thinking about escaping guards or rats, it's more "what object is shining around here". So this takes you out of the atmosphere and story, you're just playing a game. And that's a shame. Because I did enjoy the atmosphere. The artistic direction was great, the music was beautiful, and the voice acting was quite good (at least in French). The characters were somewhat realistic (for kids protagonists) and most importantly none were annoying, including Hugo. The latest chapters, when the story really starts, were kind of interesting and I liked playing these more. There were even moments when I was surprised or felt sad, but I'm talking like the last two chapters. All in all, this game feels more like a prologue or a demo for the next Plague Tale, but I'm not interested enough to keep playing. It's a decent game if you know what to expect, but nothing extraordinary.

A Plague Tale: Innocence is a gripping, emotional stealth-adventure set during the Black Plague, with stunning visuals, a haunting story, and tense gameplay.

Overall, very fun game! Things were a bit repetitive at times, especially if you mess up and have to go back at all. I do wish there was a better save point feature because I can't count how many times I messed up right before a checkpoint. There is also a bug on chapter 15 that can make you have to restart the entire chapter because of the save feature when you put out some of the fires. If the saving was a bit better I would have liked it a bit more, but the story was wonderful and got me to finish it through the frustrating bits.

I didn’t enjoy playing this game. A lot of it felt illogical, the characters were quite annoying, and the whole thing constantly tried to manipulate emotions. The “puzzles” solve themselves, and the game holds your hand like you're a three-year-old lost in a supermarket. It’s more of an interactive movie than an actual game (and I sometimes enjoy those - just not this one). And it really tried to be shocking. All. The. Time. Cheesy dialogue and relentless brutality. At first, fine, I went along with it. But when I found myself casually strolling across a battlefield full of corpses - intact corpses - I had to laugh. In a world supposedly swarming with flesh-eating rats, there are just heaps of untouched bodies lying around? Same with the hundreds of dead pigs - seriously? Shock value, and nothing else. Even the rats seemed confused. I'm not sure who this was made for. Too easy and naive for adults, too disturbing and gruesome for kids. To be fair, the music and visuals were really good. But I wanted to play a solid game with a gripping story, not just admire pretty landscapes between one over-the-top scene and another.

Story 10/10 Voice acting 10/10 Music 9/10 Sound 8/10 Beautiful game with dark and heartwarming story at the same time, touchy, for that short time game it's really amazing, if you're seeking game that is not really hard in terms of combats and mechanics and you just need a good, well written story this game is for you, felt like a movie, on to REQUIEM NOW !

Take the Krill mechanic from Gears of War, make the whole game with that at the center, set in a high-fantasy era of plague with Rats instead of Bats. A lite version of gameplay from the Last of Us but a heavier emphasis on stealth and you get: A Plague Tale Innocence. Great game, tense set pieces, gnarly imagery, story gets even better towards the end ~ Definitely give this game a shot. Side note: No Ultrawide support but Hex edit will fix that. Further Side note: Experienced some weirdness with chapter achievements popping if that's a concern though progressing to the next chapter or hitting the main menu fixed that.

Overall a well-put-together story, with a few logical errors which I will not mention to help you avoid spoilers. Gameplay is probably the weakest aspect of it, it's not bad but it's very repetitive, especially at the beginning, when you have very few tools at your disposal. Despite some of the issues, it's still one of the greatest linear story games out there, with memorable characters, beautiful graphics and great music.

Linear story, annoyingly artificial dialogues, a bit weird decisions from characters. It is noticeable, that authors wanted to add some drama, but the ways are at least strange. Great work on the environments though! Some scenes are properly represented. It's not a bad game, so I can't say I don't recommend it, however to me it felt mediocre due to the points mentioned above.

I loved the engaging story, the mechanics were intuitive, and I was able to relax and play through it over a couple of weeks.

I have not finished yet, but this game to me is an inside-out masterpiece. good story, mechanism, graphics, development and characters.

a lot of rats, great game, love the story and characters

I started the game not expecting much but, I found myself enjoying the story and pacing of the game. I usually play soulsgame/souls-like games but would totally recomend this game!!! Will definetly go straight for requiem after this playthrough.

Beautiful story, great OST, fun gameplay, it's just all around great game.

One of the best games i had ever played period the story, the art style as well as the entire narrative is just soo soo good that i can't just recommend it enough. NO spoilers but the relation between Amicia and Hugo are just too good. I can't wait to play the requiem

I love that game. I was first attracted due the description of "The Last of Us in the middle-age" but it´s so much more. It´s an intense journey through heartbreaks, happy moments, blood, rage but also friendship and hope. It does a pretty good jo in stroy-telling, what in my eyes is the strongest point of the game. You feel attached, you start to like people but you never know. The battles are sometimes really tiring, maybe one of my biggest critic points, also with controller the weapon change etc is quite fidly and brought me more than once to the frustration edge but still ... fell in love with that game pretty bad. And especially Amicia <3

An amazing game tight story telling with an awesome plot. Truly something different and very underrated.

great game to just chill and play. puzzles aren't too hard and you can get pretty good with Amicia's sling and battle in places instead of hiding. I really liked the game and am playing the 2nd one.

Great story, and gameplay. I do recommend playing this with headphones, the soundtrack and the atmosphere of the game are truly breathtaking

Now that I've finished the game I can say I fully recommend it. This story is heartbreaking in a way that doesn't draw tears from your eyes, but immerses you in the dread that tomorrow may never come. A little bit like present events. 10/10.

Usually I never leave a comment, but for this masterpiece I'm ready to leave one. Firstly, this is not a fast paced game, there is a story you can only find in books and this game lets you watch it. Gameplay is not difficult at all (except few boss fights) and as such it really lets you enjoy few hours of free time you can have as a dad and husband on weekend. Got this on sale so it is very much worth it.

This games story is immensely enjoyable, however the game play gets really boring at chapter 14. The over use of the brother tantruming as a plot device is incredibly annoying. In all this would probably make a better tv show then a game, but it is quite fun to play through once.

Excellent game with supreme visualization effects. It has saved me from my tiredness of continuous gaming for a week. Recommend this!

Took..11 hours to complete. I liked it a lot. It had a nice story. Suitable for children with the characters in the game giving you hints of what to do next. The graphics are really great and beautiful in some places which are real nice, almost like its a game for girls hahaha. I still enjoyed it anyways and found it quite easy to play compared to other games. There are a good number of puzzles in it that remind me of the first games ever created kind of puzzles but put into this game sort of format.

Immersive and atmospheric. Gameplay absorbing but not too tricky - remains good fun though.

the game was good until the last chapter, the games main focus should be its storytelling and environment, but in the end especially it heavily tries to lean into the mechanics. my 1st problem- The bugs in this game are annoying as fuck, in one of the chapters an invisible wall blocked me and made me unable to progress, i thought i was doing something wrong but it turned out to be a bug and the solution was minimizing and fullscreening the game in order to fix. in another bug which annoyed me till the end was that for some reason my lamps weren't turning to the right and in the ending chapters when it made it impossible to progress i found out its because my FPS was too much?? the games been out for so long how are these bugs even allowed?. my 2nd problem- now i will avoid spoiling but in chapter 16 the cart scene is outrageous, it felt very unrefined and the game wasn't built for this type of combat. and now i was in the final fight right, but i cant pass the first phase because i am out of materials and theres no materials around for the required stuff to pass (don't say it was bad resource management from me, i barely used any much resources but i thought since its the last chapter i should upgrade stuff since i was thinking of getting 100% achievements and just before the fight i ended up upgrading my stuff which took it.) now it has hard locked me out of this fight meaning i have to replay the whole chapter and remember to not upgrade anything meaning i will have to go through all that tiring stuff in this chapter again. EDIT : so i am a little dumb here, it turns out there are some materials in the left where they are hard to see. but since i clicked chapter select i am still required to replay the whole chapter. now this was my fault but i still stay true to my orignal word that its not refined and there should be better fail-saves. and my core points about the game trying to be what its not are also true. i feel like the developers are very good in their storytelling and all that stuff the games main focus is, but they tried too much in this chapter and took it in a whole different direction. i am a sucker for difficult games, i have played all sorts of them and even 100% sekiro and mostly played all other difficult games but the forced difficulty in this chapter is more annoying than fun. i am still gonna replay just for the sake of completing the game but the game has still been disappointment as a whole with both the bugs and this hard locking bullshit.

I had a lot of fun while playing. Very beautiful graphics, gameworld often looked like a painting. Gameplay is innovative, as player uses sling as a weapon and has to use different types of ammunition in creative ways. Gameplay mostly consists of sneaking around with the sling and solving puzzles. I would love to play more games with such sling mechanics! Story is very good and had me intrigued from the start. Characters are believable and I cared a lot about what happened to them. Gets maybe a bit too difficult at some parts at the end game, but thankfully there are very frequent checkpoints so player doesn't lose much progress in case of failures. Usually it was easy to proceed as long as I thought carefully what to do and came to the proper solution. Highly recommend!

Great story good game play a bit too less choice to play but that's ok puzzle not that too hard

A great story full of emotions and great music.

Great story-focused game. The art and charaters are fantastic. Combat si simple, yet sometimes, specially with bosses it can get a bit tricky. Recommended.

The story, graphics, soundtrack and voice acting are great. The gameplay is pretty good, a bit clunky but nothing too bad. I loved the way that if you've crafted enough stuff you can find different ways through different situations, some more stealthy than others. The only parts where this game falls completely flat and are the boss fights, they suck - luckily there aren't many of them. Unfortunately there's like 3 annoying segments towards the end, two of which are boss fights and the gameplay just doesn't make for good fight design, it's a game built around puzzle solving with crafted items and/or stealth, not boss fights or combat. However I'd still say this game is worth playing! Very good experience and very creepy. 7.5/10 <3

I am not the type to leave reviews, but this game truly is a hidden gem I thought was worth the mention! The story is absolutely amazing with great characters and setting. Never in any game have I used the photo mode more than in this game.! The stealth, puzzles and especially the combat in this game can feel a bit shallow. The game does really hold your hand when playing, making it at times feel more like a playable movie then an interactive game. Which in this game is not necessarily a bad thing but worth mentioning!

Such an amazing game with a lovely story. its a must play at this price during the summer sale! Amazing characters, smooth gameplay and graphics. DEF worth your time and money. and there is another part reliqum and 3rd coming in 2026.

I went into this game pretty blind i only saw little teasers and screenshots. This game was annoying but really fun at times a different style of stealth game play. And really good graphics, decent mechanics and overall amazing story and game.

It had been a long time since I was hit with such immersion and dopamine like this game delivered. Incredible from start to finish, with engaging characters that evolve alongside the narrative. The story development and Gameplay are outstanding, the graphics are phenomenal, and the plot is deeply captivating. A Plague Tale: Innocence gave me a nostalgic vibe with a well-balanced level of challenge. Highly recommended.

The story of siblings Amicia and Hugo De Rune is full of intrigue, emotion, and tension. It’s set in 14th-century France during the Hundred Years' War between France and England, and amidst the devastating Black Plague that swept through Europe between 1347 and 1351. The atmosphere, graphics, mechanics, and story overall are very well crafted. It’s a game that can keep you tense and under pressure during stealth sequences, and then make you feel sad or happy just a few minutes later. I should mention that it has a few bugs, which can be annoying at times, as they may force you to find alternative ways to solve certain situations, making things a bit more complicated. Still, it’s a game that’s absolutely worth playing. I had a great time and stayed fully focused. It’s one of those games that really draws you in. As a achievement hunter, I’d also like to point out that you can get 100% of the achievements in a single playthrough. Just make sure to prioritize materials for upgrades and check guides for collectible locations and how to complete some of the more specific achievements. It’s not too difficult in terms of completion. With nothing more to add, I hope you enjoy this amazing game!

Gameplay can get pretty boring and annoying but the story's worth it

Story rich, excellent pace with moments of exploration, stealth, combat, puzzles, and platforming. I was invested from beginning to end.

I really liked the graphics and story line of the game but sometimes the constant need for stealth moves, the mechanics and only the ability to use a sling was a bit annoying, frustrating and time draining.

Honestly ,just a pure combination of amazing story and game play. While the gameplay doesn't bring anything innovative in today's world ,the way it just enables you to approach each fight and scene in different ways ,just make this game more fun and fluid to your style. Next game is requiem ,I am hyped

A amazing game to have story peak ,music peak, characters peak,world peak 8/10 combat can kinda get bit frustring and its mostly stealth in the begining until the games gives you stuff to fight back with but its mostly stealth based but it is worth it get it

Linear but looks gorgeous and runs perfectly

i liked this game so much i got 100% in it, one of the best story telling games, but the sequel is even better i believe