Sceal: An Irish Folklore Adventure
Joint Custody · 2016 · Adventure, Indie, Casual
PC
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About Sceal: An Irish Folklore Adventure
"A magnificent mini Irish folklore adventure game. 9/10 " gameskinny.com
"...hauntingly beautiful adventure game. 77%" cogconnected.com
"...I definitely say it’s a beautiful gem, which everyone should try. ...Great game, buy it, peace. 7/10" invisioncommunity.co.uk
"Scéal is not your ordinary game. It will stay with you forever. It will leave footprints in your mind." infinitegaming.es
"...This game is a work of art..." oneangrygamer.net
"Sceal is a game that I can recommend to anyone who likes interesting story with beautiful Irish music and artistically painted world." vgdb.pl
"...this is a gorgeous fairytale with simplistic gameplay and a tragic story. I love the art design and need to download the soundtrack immediately." defunctgames.com
"Lovingly animated in a hand-drawn watercolour style and underpinned by a haunting soundtrack, Scéal makes a handsome first impression." independent.ie
"The authors have artfully combined music, graphics and story into a harmonious unit with artistic value and skillfully filed storyline. 8/10" sector.sk
"A good pick..." graal.fr
"In short: "Scéal" - small game, but very big! 91%" adventurespiele.net
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Steeped in supernatural Irish folklore, Scéal (which means "story" in Irish) casts players into the role of the lost soul of a little girl, destined to wander the earth, with no memories of the life she once lived.
Longing for release from her limbo, the spirit encounters Branna, the Raven of the Dead, who promises to take the girl to the afterlife if she can rediscover her name and recover the story of the life she once lived by reliving her memories inside the pages of Branna's magical storybook.
At the heart of Scéal’s gameplay is its vibrant watercolour paint palette. Players must complete quests by painting buildings and objects to progress the storyline. Scéal also features a day/night cycle with colour palettes and music that change as the story / time progresses. Playing as the little spirit, players can transform into an angel of light or a dark banshee, repainting the world as they move through it, changing the world from happiness to despair and back again.
Along with it's unique visual style and art direction, Scéal has a distinctive and hauntingly melodic soundtrack, sung in Irish and made in collaboration with renowned Irish folk singers Lorcan Mac Mathuna, Aislinn Duffy and Florence Glen.
"...hauntingly beautiful adventure game. 77%" cogconnected.com
"...I definitely say it’s a beautiful gem, which everyone should try. ...Great game, buy it, peace. 7/10" invisioncommunity.co.uk
"Scéal is not your ordinary game. It will stay with you forever. It will leave footprints in your mind." infinitegaming.es
"...This game is a work of art..." oneangrygamer.net
"Sceal is a game that I can recommend to anyone who likes interesting story with beautiful Irish music and artistically painted world." vgdb.pl
"...this is a gorgeous fairytale with simplistic gameplay and a tragic story. I love the art design and need to download the soundtrack immediately." defunctgames.com
"Lovingly animated in a hand-drawn watercolour style and underpinned by a haunting soundtrack, Scéal makes a handsome first impression." independent.ie
"The authors have artfully combined music, graphics and story into a harmonious unit with artistic value and skillfully filed storyline. 8/10" sector.sk
"A good pick..." graal.fr
"In short: "Scéal" - small game, but very big! 91%" adventurespiele.net
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Steeped in supernatural Irish folklore, Scéal (which means "story" in Irish) casts players into the role of the lost soul of a little girl, destined to wander the earth, with no memories of the life she once lived.
Longing for release from her limbo, the spirit encounters Branna, the Raven of the Dead, who promises to take the girl to the afterlife if she can rediscover her name and recover the story of the life she once lived by reliving her memories inside the pages of Branna's magical storybook.
At the heart of Scéal’s gameplay is its vibrant watercolour paint palette. Players must complete quests by painting buildings and objects to progress the storyline. Scéal also features a day/night cycle with colour palettes and music that change as the story / time progresses. Playing as the little spirit, players can transform into an angel of light or a dark banshee, repainting the world as they move through it, changing the world from happiness to despair and back again.
Along with it's unique visual style and art direction, Scéal has a distinctive and hauntingly melodic soundtrack, sung in Irish and made in collaboration with renowned Irish folk singers Lorcan Mac Mathuna, Aislinn Duffy and Florence Glen.
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What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
[table] [tr] [th][h1] My Playthrough [/h1][/th] [th]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gubi_Y7otNI[/th] [/tr] [tr] [td][h1]The Review[/h1][/td] [td]A short beautiful game. I love the story book art style and the music is top notch. I just wish the game had a way to select your chapter so I can see the multiple endings without playing through all 3 chapters again.[/td] [/tr] [/table]2 found this helpful
Lovely little storybook of a game!
Beautiful game reminds me of growing up in the gaelteacht, get the tissues for this though it's a real tear jerker
An okay story set in Ireland with some lovely music, but not much else. Only recommended to people looking for an Irish story though I think there are better sources of Irish Folklore. Like the one about a giant killer otter.
I would give this 5/5 alone for being playable in Gaeilge and for the beautiful music, also all sung in Gaeilge. The art style is great and original too and I like how the text is written in the format of manuscript pages. The sad tone of the story combined with the Irish music reminded me of the film Song of the Sea. I encountered a few glitches where clicking on the next action just didn't work and I had to exit the game and go back in then it worked again. But for 5 euros I'm not going to take points away for that when Todd Howard games have similar problems and cost 10x more.
Absolutely fantastic experience inspired by irish celtic culture
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