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Players in Game
132 😀
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79,17%
Rating
$14.99
Endless Fables 4: Shadow Within Reviews
Famous anthropologist Pamela Cavendish goes back to her hometown to face a tragedy from her childhood. When her friend - Hans - was kidnapped by a nightmarish figure no one believed her. Years later, brave and steadfast, Pamela has a chance to make things right.
App ID | 1129030 |
App Type | GAME |
Developers | Sunward Games |
Publishers | Artifex Mundi |
Categories | Single-player, Steam Achievements, Steam Cloud, Steam Trading Cards |
Genres | Casual, Adventure |
Release Date | 3 Oct, 2019 |
Platforms | Windows, Mac, Linux |
Supported Languages | French, Italian, German, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, English, Korean, Polish, Russian |

151 Total Reviews
132 Positive Reviews
19 Negative Reviews
Score
Endless Fables 4: Shadow Within has garnered a total of 151 reviews, with 132 positive reviews and 19 negative reviews, resulting in a ‘’ overall score.
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Recent Steam Reviews
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Playtime:
317 minutes
I play a lot of hidden object games published by Artifex Mundi and recently been bingeing on games developed by Sunward. This particular episode of Endless Fables, "Shadow Within" is about a C grade. I'm not complaining about the consistent formula of very familiar puzzles and visual searching. I'm not especially snobby about stilted voice acting and cheesy dialog. But the Endless Fables series is increasingly dependent on attempted jump scares and lazy unmotivated plot devices. There is so little plot or narrative in these things, and magic is so universal, you'd think the writers would come up with a connected thread, but this episode in particular has several things that just left me going WTF?
In fact, they not only don't have verbal explanations, a couple of them are accompanied by a rapid jumble of blurred images. Example [spoiler]You give invalid Hans the Hedron, and suddenly he's out of bed and a possessed bad guy to fight/evade. The hint/narrative/self-dialog immediately before this was "Let's give it to Hans. He'll know what to do with it." Short flurry of incoherent images follows and now Hans is going for your throat.[/spoiler] Perhaps this is a programming bug and that flurry of images was supposed to be a well-paced visual explanation of what's happening. But I suspect it's just sloppy writing and overdependence on jump scares.
There's other really lazy stuff. There's a middle-aged character who's introduced as Dr. So-and-So, but you drive with him to a castle where there's an announcement for So-and-So's doctoral exam. Just ... no. Academic committees don't administer oral exams in castles (at least ones that aren't also college buildings). Announcements of doctoral exams are usually not posted like concert flyers. And paper stuck to fences isn't going to last 20 years in the weather. A couple of sentences could have explained the exotic circumstances of So-and-So's unusual recent academic career, but no.
So, this is quite playable and familiar if you're just in it for the puzzles. But it's also rather annoying if you pay any attention whatsoever to the plot.
👍 : 0 |
😃 : 0
Negative
Playtime:
616 minutes
It is the last part of the series that puts an end to the fantastic stories we have become accustomed to from this series. Enjoy!
👍 : 0 |
😃 : 0
Positive