Endless Fables: The Minotaur's Curse

I didn't enjoy this, but I couldn't really tell you why. It's a perfectly capable game and it does everything you expect a Mundi title to do, but it was lacking a fun factor that I can't quite pin down. The collectibles in this one are very well hidden and I missed several, but this might be the first time that I can't be bothered to go back and find them. I really just wanted this one to be over. For achievement hunters, there are several timed ones that require you to race through scenes repeatedly and I don't find that fun, either. The game mostly just felt like busywork which is arguably the point, but none of it was really engaging this time.

In spite of the story, the game works and has some decent puzzles, so I'm going to recommend it. But BOY HOWDY is Artifex Mundi bad at mythology. This was the equivalent of telling me that Loki and Whisky Jack are the same person. I suppose you CAN mix Greco-Roman and northern European myth, but why on earth would you? The protagonist is also dumb as a rock, but that's to be expected.

Good enough of a game for me to leave a positive rating but its definitely got its flaws The Thread abilities are pretty underused, the cult doesn't become relevant ever again outside of the intro and if i may say the game feels rushed.

Brief, but has good art and some challenging collectibles. The minigames have all been dumbed down, e.g. there are sokoban puzzles with way too much free space to actually constitute a puzzle. On Mac there is the now customary annoying icloud popup also. HOG scenes are good and bug free, but there is an annoying bug where held items lose focus on scene transition. Sideways thumb but it got enough right to land slightly upright.

Fun ;p

This is an a little below average on the Mountain Crime Requital scale. I would say get this game, IF THERE IS A SALE. The game itself is quite mediorcre, nothing to really hook you in, the story was so-so, and it doesn't fully commit to the Greek mythology theming, as some design elements were quite Nordic/Celtic (and at one point, our MC says something along the lines of "like Thor himself hammered this down" and we were in Hephaestus' realm! Shouldn't he be the god invoked?). Still, it was a decent romp, not bad, not particularly stand out.