Tunic is both rare and meticulous.

Beautiful art design and a 'just-hard-enough' level of difficult combat combine well, as Tunic alights the imagination with a highly specific and unique reverence: one that speaks explicitly to the history of video games as a medium, what it was 'once like' to play them in a time lost to the ages, and what it was like to experience discovering a new one (lightly used).

Once upon a time, people would rent video games from local retail stores. What came with any particular game, who could say. Sometimes, they would include instruction books with passwords left in the notes section. A Mega Man save image map, hand drawn.

These traces were the remnants of a run through the game left unfinished, lost to its original player and time, now in your hands for the first time. Tunic is a game that simulates such a feeling, compelling in its player a simple truth, slowly: you are not the first. But here is what someone else has learned.