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 hints of about their trails.

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

Uncover Hidden Rifts in the world to dive into New Locations in the Wild Woodlands.

Discover hidden dig sites that contain buried lost curiosities.

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.

Deploy your own party of allied Folktale Recruits to aid you in battle.

Stack up Fear on your enemies to deal Damage equal to their Fear.

Plan your strategy on how best to use the Environmental Tiles to your advantage.

Defeat Folktales to break them back into their fallen storybooks to bind.

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

Capture all the Lost Folktale books to complete the Library's collection.

Return books to get rewarded with Bones, Skulls, and Claws.

Upgrade your party of Folktales to level up their stats & unlock new combat skills.

Hunt all the lost Elder Folktales by taking on new Hunt Contracts from the Scribes.

Dive into the Wild Woodlands world book to travel to any discovered level locations.

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're not the only hunter roaming these lands.

Defeat the Elder Folktales in each region to gather Quill Keys for your story.

Unlock your storybook, face your past, and confront the Hunter to rewrite your tale.

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

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.