It’s playful and cute, with surprising depth that draws inspiration from classic stories.

It’s also very short.

That’s not to say that Storyteller doesn’t have more going on than it did 11 years ago.

A story in the puzzle game Storyteller in which a man called Bernard has turned into a werewolf, eaten a woman in the forest, turned back into a man, and then been kind of ambivalent about it - the player has got the story wrong

I found the runtime annoying because Storyteller seemed to end just as I was properly getting into it.

Similarly, you learn what states people need to be in to perform certain actions.

If he has no idea, he’ll stand then and do a kind of ‘IDK?’

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The animations themselves tell you what it’s crucial that you fix, or do next.

The characters and stories themselves help, too.

This kind of gentle suggestion from the story names helps you solve the puzzle quite often.

A wrong and incomplete story in Storyteller where the queen is supposed to suffer four tragedies - but many places in the story panels are missing a person

You’ll also find yourself casting characters according to their names and demeanor.

Hatey the dwarf doesn’t technicallyhaveto be murderous, but… well… nominative determinism, old chap.

But, on that note there isn’t anything quite as horrible in Storyteller.

A story in the Storyteller puzzle book, where the player is moving a story panel in an effort to recreate a kind of Hamlet but with fantasy dwarves

“, I thought.

I’m pretty sure I played levels in the Storyteller demo that didn’t appear in Storyteller proper.

Whatever metaphor would work.

A story puzzle in Storyteller where a man called Edgar has remarried and then killed his second wife - because she poisoned his first wife!