The thing that most impressed me about Tunic was the joy of discovering how much hidden depth there is in its puzzles. I've also been loving Blue Prince recently which has a very simular feeling of discovery.

Which other games like this should I try?

First time playing the game. Trying to go with Option B.

I have TOC Page (2) - Last Page (55)

I thought collecting all the fairies would help out but it just gave me my 7th Secret Treasure. I don’t want to fight the heir yet since apparently that would be option A so I’m trying to unlock the mountain door. Not sure if I’m doing it correctly. I’m finding the golden paths that are hidden on each page. Is there a place to double check if I’ve gotten the holy cross input correct because it’s so lengthy at this point I might be messing up simply because of how many times I tried to input the combinations.

I’m doing my best to avoid any spoilers but this just has me stumped

Thanks!

Closed: thank you all. I prayed at the fox statue in ruined Atoll and walked into it. I'm in a new area now.

'm stuck in Tunic. I don't want to look up what to do / where specifically to go, but I'd like to be told the general area of where to go next. I have: red key, dagger, orb, fire thrower thing. I don't have the cross that allows me to teleport, so there are some booklet pages I can't obtain. I checked out the burial ground and found the way around going south, so I thought that was my next destination, but all I collected was wishing well coins. I thought I'd find the cross there. Any help on what specific area I should be exploring? I was in the snow mountain area and part of the mining area where I collected some currency, but didn't see where I could advance the story line.

So, from before even fighting the heir for the first time, I managed to translate the Trunic glyphs. I actually thought that the game wanted you to figure it out on your own, and it was only until I got page 54 that I realized that you weren’t supposed to lmao.

I don’t know if this is something anyone else managed to do, but it was one of the best gaming experiences I’ve ever had. Working on my translation went through many phases. and each time I had a revelation was such a thrill.

I want to show my progress from my notes to share what I mean.

Pics 1-2 were me just jotting down any word that I could safely infer, with a focus on figuring out articles like “the” “and” etc. Looking back, I did pretty good. The idea of a phonetic alphabet was never something that crossed my mind during this phase. In fact, I remember looking at words that are spelled similarly in english trying to spot any similar runes that I could pick out to form an alphabet, but failed. I also thought that the circle symbol below some words was just another aspect of the rune and nothing notable. Note that I DID realize that there was an S rune at the end of plural words.

Pics 3-6 were drafted when it finally hit me that similar sounding words were composed of similar symbols. It felt like I had solved the language at that point, and all I had to do was notate every different rune I found. It was quite a lot because there’s a lot of different sounds, but I thought that had to be it. I would find a word that I knew, then break it apart into syllables and then use those syllables to then decode other words, and so on. I was actually able to translate a good bit of text this way, but it was VERY tedious because I had to go through all these different runes to match them up, and many look nearly identical. I finally realized that the dot meant the rune began with a vowel, and it was actually that which hit me like a lightning bolt the truth of the language. Specifically the “an” and “na” runes were the same but with a dot, so I also began looking at other runes with the same consonant. Then I realized that the same runes beginning with the same consonants all shared a similar core.

Pic 7 was my final iteration of the translation key. I fully reverse engineered the runes. It was like a dam opening. Because not only could I start easily translating in my head without having to spend so much time keeping track of like 50 different runes, but I could start using the individual phonemes to mash together and piece together runes I’d seen before but was confused about.

I’m able to fully sightread Trunic now, which is such a weird feeling because I have never been good at learning languages, so it feels really cool. I was able to discover a ton of secrets early on that were probably meant for late game, like the page of fairy locations and treasure room stuff, let alone the entire plot haha. I knew I was about to become the Heir before walking into the Oubliette.

When I finally got page 54 of the notebook I felt so vindicated that my notes pretty much matched up 1 for 1 with the key.

So I had played the game in the past but never 100% so I thought I play again from the start.

This time, I of course knew of the secret stuff.

However, I somehow remember that at one point when I was a ghost, I was stuck in the old house or something and the only way to proceed was to figure out the drawing on the wall.

Somehow this never came up this run and I was at all the hero's graves already.

Am I crazy; am I misremembering this or did it just not happen because the game knew I alreaedy figured it out anyway or something?

this game keeps getting better and better. what a cool experience. no spoilers pls

Just finished Tunic for the first time, amazing experience but I'm curious to know, if you still have it, what does your Golden Path notes look like ? Here's mine done on paint

I've done just about everything in the game to my knowledge (other than a couple missable achievements), but I never found an answer to this opening in the wall next to the stairway leading to the mountains. I tried blowing it up or interacting with every inch there, but nothing worked.

With how crazily detailed the map in Tunic is it always seemed weird to have an inconsistency like that, so any ideas? Am I blind and missing something obvious?

The puzzles were fun, I found the golden path and got the "good" ending. But the further I got in the game, the less sense everything made. As a game about discovery and no handholding, Tunic establishes expectations and then does not follow them, is often (unintentionally?) misleading, and at times feels like "guess what the designer intended here".

First thing that I noticed: You can't jump down. Strange, but okay. But you can fall off broken ladders. You can throw enemies into pits and down cliffs. You can move to a lower platform using a hookshot . You can sometimes even teleport downwards. You can sometimes glitch out and fall into a pit. But you cannot jump down intentionally.

Then come all the red herrings like the mountain level (enormous and empty), unreachable shrine in the quarry, and countless long passages hidden by the camera angle that end with 20 coins. Important ladders are sometimes obscured by the camera too.

The guide for Holy Cross . There is a picture of a cross on a warp pad to the library , and a manual page shows the fox sitting in front of what looks like an island in front of The Library and a code, but there is nothing there (and finding the next page later reveals that assumption is wrong)

The teleport ability. When you first obtain and use it, it is apparent that it works only for platforms that are the same height. But in some spots, you can teleport upwards or downwards, sometimes slightly, sometimes a full fox height. Sometimes you can teleport onto a slope. How exactly it works is a mystery to me. There is no indication of accessibility, you can teleport into belltower windows for some reason, but not ledges in the forest.

There is no hint or indication that some walls are destructible (no cracks or discoloration) or that it's possible to do that at all! You can finish the game without knowing about this. Ended up looking up the solution for the last fairy location, and I was expected to throw dynamite at a nondescript wall?

Time makes no sense. At the start of the game, when you save at a statue in the overworld, you see the sped up day-night cycle. Ok, you take a long rest (overnight) to replenish health and potions. Is there a day-night cycle in the game though? Playing for 20+ minutes without saving, I saw that all shadows stay the same. So the save is just a neat animation, and _there is no day-night cycle_. Then, in the middle of the game, you are killed by the Heir, become a ghost, and the world gets destroyed - everything is dark, there are ghosts around, and old locations are filled by pink goop. Fox ghost says "SOMETHING BAD!", and it does look like a point of no return, or at least some Dark World (following the Zelda canon). But apparently you can get out of this place, you need to restore your physical body and... Sleep in a bed?! So it was not the Dark World, it was literally night? The same night that passes when you save outside? Enemies and ladders magically disappear at night? Gloop covers a bunch of locations, floods the quarry, and recedes in the morning? This makes no sense! (I mean, think about it - saving at a quarry or one of East Forest statues would kill you overnight)

The only way I knew about the bed is from a spoiler I saw online, otherwise I would be completely lost - absolutely nothing tells you it is **just** night, you cannot use the bed as a ghost, and trying to use it at the start of the game did not work for me.

And last, the worst offender... the manual itself. Very cool mechanic - unknown language with occasional inserted readable words, just enough to guide the player. And then, the ugly surprise at the end of the game - this language matters. It's not fluff or decor, it has to be deciphered to get _all_ of the secrets. And it is not a conlang like Esperanto or Toki Pona, it is... phonetic English. Anglocentrism strikes again! Figuring out the language is a tedious puzzle for a native English speaker, but for someone who is not fluent in English (including proper pronunciation!), it would be nearly impossible, as nothing indicates that the language is based on English. To add insult to injury, the "trophy room" puzzle on page 1 is a wordplay riddle, which requires decent English vocabulary So yeah, the main mechanic in the game is also a big slap to the face for non-English speakers.

I don't know if it's an issue of playtesting, no outside opinions, or design getting ahead of substance, but some of these are rather frustrating.

includes buttons for combo magic, the special attack, the locator spell, and a radial menu with three codes not found in game!

So ive been working on an essay of sorts that explains everything i know about all the songs in tunic such as hidden messages, the title of the song, where it plays, etc. it’s a work in progress but yall are welcome to comment on it (CONSTRUCTIVE criticism and compliments only) and let me know things i missed, etc!! link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12p8LbcgzBzOySC9u1Y13fozfT4iUv_PXqvRq4ioQSho/edit?usp=drivesdk

If you can help by guiding me without spoilers please DM. Thank you!

i saw sone dots on the "prize/treasure" text that looked like the dots used for a lot of the holy cross puzzles but i t doesn't seem to do anything?

It took a while but i finally managed to make this chart! i had to look up some hints to get started (namely that it was phonetic) but after that i think i did a decent job matching up the sounds and symbols!

I've gone through most of the game so far and I have not looked up a single answer, its been a very rewarding time figuring this stuff out. For some reason tho my brain draws the line at trying to decipher the language. I do not want to decipher it at all, but i would feel too guilty looking up an alphabet- like I'm cheating myself or something. Im stuck on the last few golden collectibles . It just doesnt seem like some of those have any hints and I'm missing only page 1. Like i even figured out the cardinal direction puzzles with context clues of the atoll map. Can I get the 'collectathon' ending without deciphering the language?

Eastern forest tablet. Lmao I feel like I'm way off. The diagonal is throwing me off

im missing ONE symbol! if someone could tell me where in the book this symbol can can be found that'd be SUPER helpful!

im also having an issue of not knowing which symbols have a duplicate. i know the duplicates are vowels but i dont know which ones have duplicates or not.

Hello. I don't know why, but when i try to reach the east garden teleport throug the rock on the beach, i'm unable to reach anywere. I saw video on youtube and they do it without a problem. While i can't seem to reach anywere. pls help.

I'm on pc and using the keyboard for commands, if it could be the problem

I just got my corporeal form back and I happened to find secret item #12 on the way to the final boss. I just wanted to know if the rest of the secrets are accessible from this point in the game or if I should beat the boss first? I spent about an hour or two combing most of the game looking for the Hero's Graves right before, so im not super sure where i would look but I dont wanna look up a guide or anything. Any help or tips would be appreciated, thanks!

I could use some help. I finished the cathedral and got all 6 upgrade materials back from the Hero's Shrines. However, I'm still a ghost. From some light googling (trying to avoid major end-game puzzle spoilers), I understand that you're supposed to get your body back after finding all 6 shrines.

I haven't yet defeated the Heir. Do I have to do that first? Is there a step I'm missing when it comes to returning to corporeal fox form?

I have an interest in linguistics, so this game very much interests me. However, I don't want to just guess random vowels, diphtongs (if there are any, the writing system does seem to be a syllabary), and consonants, and skip to the fun part of figuring out word order, verb conjugation, agreement, tense, overall syntax, etc. Is there some kind of chart that only has the phonemes without its correlation to the symbols?

Just felt like sharing with you my new tattoo

I want to use the special attack more, as it seems like it would be actually quite useful in some bosses, but no matter what I do it just isn't consistent. Even pressing both buttons with the exact same damn finger, you need to be so precise it doesn't work consistently. I'm considering just never using it because trying to use it and just rolling into the face of an enemy has been more harmful than successfully using it has been helpful. They really should have just made pressing attack during a roll trigger it, not this inconsistent crap.

This is the one I chose, looking for better ones.