On Your Tail™ Steam Charts & Stats

While the ending to the main mystery was a major disappointment I ultimately enjoyed my time with the cast in the wonderful town enough that I really didn't mind. quite like the approach of using diorama's and the card system for convos,felt very unique

Charming, in a word. This isn't the most in depth puzzle game, nor is it a full on life sim. What it is is a relaxing adventure through a little Italian town that's clearly built with love, both for the game and for rural Italian life. I highly recommend it for people just wanting an enjoying game to chill out with for a couple of hours at a time.

This game is really good. The art style is beautiful, there is so many fun activities to do, and the story (characters as well) are great. The only downside is a few bugs here and there, but they’re being fixed regularly, so it’s not that big of an issue. I also forgot to mention that the detective mini games are really weird. You have to guess most of the time (Which is what detectives do) but still, It throws a bunch of random events and expects you to connect the dots with no indication. out of all the mini games, I had to look for guides on 4 of them. Other than that I highly recommend it. 8/10

magnificent game, as a spaniard it takes me to my youth in the eighties going to the beach to my granparents house, no mobile phones, no social media... all happiness , grazie mille forza italia

+The 2D art is absoloutely adorable +The Music is wonderful and really makes the vibe, I wish the menu music unchanged was in the spotify +It's a very cute and wholesome game, a feels-good kind of +Lots of diffrent activities and minigames to do +The game is an example of a game made with passion and soul despite small budget +Wonderful game if you're a fan of Italian vibes and culture/history +Lots of easter eggs -For the first day in the village, a lot of the streets are closed and the story is linear, the world fully opens only after the first night -LOTS of walking -There is no game wikipedia or internet forum(at least I haven't found it) so theres no way to find extra help on the internet, but from my experience you won't need it very often -Everything in the game costs quite a lot so grinding as a waitress is mandatory if you want to cook or customize looks or to progress the story because you need to pay someone to rent/fix something -3D models don't look perfect -Some animations and movements look stiff

I came to this game for the vibe and art style, I knew I had probably overestimated the game but I didn't realise how much. The first point I'd make is, for a game ABOUT talking to people and solving text based puzzles, the bad translation is very apparent. I just reached the first interrogation scene and EVERY card said something different to what it was referencing, with either the actual quote or the card's version revealing information that just was not there. And I'm pretty sure the tutorial was badly translated too. The Pink cards have to be applied to other cards, until you have the amount of card the game says it wants, and even then I'm not sure that's how the game works. Combining them barely made sense, and if you did it wrong it makes you restart the game instead of just not working. Continuing with minigames being hard to understand, the game does not explain how things work, only how to use the controls. For Example: The mind palace scenes are clearly meant to be a case of "when this card is played, this will happen in X turns", but that is never explained and left for the player to brute force guess how the mechanics work. Keep in mind that you collect evidence and then theorise, the mind palace scenes are full of you making assumptions. One of the mind palace games says "nothing was noticed out of place" which helps you figure out one of the cards has to be at the end, ok cool. But at the beginning you have to play a card putting something directly in line of sight of a character who should have noticed it. There's no clear reason why one was noticed and the other not, and there's no way that you could know this based on the limited info, but its the correct answer. Also, once you are in a mind palace game, you are not allowed to leave, not even for the main menu. Meaning if you can't solve it, you can not progress at all. You are forced to either quit the game with alt + f4, google the answer, or try every combination till the game says yes. The cooking minigame never told me that 2 plates have to bought together, just making me fail and waste a day trying, not to mention needing to press wasd over and over for every tile. While the icecream game is impossible to lose, lets you walk freely inside the game, and plays passively in the background. Finding clues is a nightmare. First you have to focus on the correct part of a clue, which you cant move around while focusing. But you also have to wait for a slow moving and see-through animation to play out in reverse leading back to where you are looking. Meaning you can stare at what is clearly a clue, and not get the clue card. or focus on the actual clue but not notice anything change and move on. Then when I used a joker card, it instead lead me to a random and non related constellation graffiti. Finally, and my biggest issue, why are all the controls so fucked? It recommends using a controller, but then didn't recognise my controller any of the times I loaded the game. The camera wants to not be touched in any of the camera modes, constantly moving back to its desire position, but then if you let it, you see NOTHING as it jams itself into the wall or watching you from face on. Q 1 2 3 and 4 are item buttons, E brings up a card menu but doesn't close it, right click and esc close it. Instead E changes to be next section, and Q previous section, then when you select a card E changes again to be rotate iirc. Tab brings up the same thing as 1 but with less info. Space bar takes forever to confirm things that are not going to ruin anything if you accidentally press it, but is faster for the ones that would ruin things if you accidentally press it. E changes to be fast forward during certain cutscenes. Looking at a thing you want to interact with, sometimes needs you to be a certain distance away and looking at a weird part of it. Shift for run barely makes you move faster, with no visual indication. And there's no way to scroll out to see things easier, only on the map where you can scroll in (with Q and E) which doesn't actually help with anything. In games with cards being held like in your hand, you can't see the bottom which becomes important, nor can you see the progression of cards without rotating the camera, making them upside down, far away, and obscured. Conclusion: Good premise, Great art style, bad execution. I don't know if I would care to slam my head against the wall to see the cute characters again

Expensive things I buy for my home don't appear. My progress with the gelato does not save correctly. A charming little game, but still riddled with frustrating little bugs.

TLDR - If you like slice-of-life adventures, gorgeous scenery, furries, and lots of minigames then this game might be for you. Be prepared for some money grinding and some minor bugs (non-game-breaking). Expect 30-ish hours of gameplay. ===== On Your Tail is an ultimate summer vacation game: you're a down-on-your-luck aspiring author who needs to get away from it all and winds up in a stunning coastal town where something nefarious is afoot, mysteries abound, and as the outsider-looking-in it's up to you to get to the bottom of it all and close the case. When you're not busy sleuthing it up you're busy meeting strangers, doing various odd-jobs to earn spending money, and enjoying a scenic italian coastline with the friends you make along the way. Now to get real: if you think the mystery-solving detective half of the above paragraph was the core of the game you'd be partially wrong. While it is the main story of the game it only encompasses about a third of the total time you spend in the game itself. The other two-thirds of the game, at least for completionists, is collecting all of the in-game cards, which requires spending lots and lots and LOTS of money, which requires grinding money via mini-games on a level you'd expect from a JRPG. Don't get me wrong, the mini-games are fairly solid in and of themselves, but for those who don't enjoy grinding it will get old really fast. Even if you just want to complete a deck of cards, like Fishing, you're going to be at it for a fair bit and praying that RNG will look favorably on you. And make no mistake, you WILL need to grind out for a while, because even if you're just in it to do all the cute social stuff you're going to have to spend money at some point. The devs, in making a chill game, made a surprisingly grindy game. Putting that aside though, everything else about On Your Tail is pretty masterfully crafted: the characters (which are all furry) are well-designed and well-written, the worldspace strikes a balance between realistic and convenient (even if it doesn't always feel that way), and there really is a lot to see and do when you're not working on the main story or trying to figure out how to pay for that one ingredient you're missing. The entire setting is downright charming, which is why I originally bought this game. The only other downside is that there are outstanding bugs that need to be addressed, like the occasional glitching geometry and how certain cards just do not unlock, but fortunately these only break immersion and not the game itself. There's also a lack of replayability, which is in part because the devs intended for you to 100% the game in a single save file and wrote the story accordingly. Once you get everything and finish the game that's really it, unless you want to go back and walk around in a different outfit. But even with the mind-numbing minigame grinding and other shortcomings mentioned above, these are cons that are outweighed by a simple-enough and well-made game that is clearly the product of devs that threw themselves into it. I wouldn't blame anyone for waiting for it to go on sale, but sooner or later it is worth your time if you like games in a more wholesome flavor.

game needs more attention. haven't finished it but it feels like a pleasant holiday in Italy where you make friends, see the sights and investigate a crime spree in the town. the mini games are varied and enjoyable. the investigation sections are done in a novel way too where you have the events but you need to put them in chronological order. highly recommend and it's a shame the game has so few reviews

An obviously extremely passionate game and one where I'm not really sure what to make of it? As a detective puzzle game? Bad. Bordering on abysmal, frankly. Imagine if you will, playing a Danganronpa game, but there is no trial segment. You do the investigation and then you immediately do the Closing Argument without any of the outlining that would usually occur in the middle. That is what On Your Tail is like. This leads you to just guess your way through the sequence of events, the game even offers explicit confirmation that this is the intended playstyle at the halfway point when it introduces "Hypothesis" cards which is a random assumption you make and base your deductions on. The end result is that it isn't actually deduction, it's not even induction. It's just guessing until the game says you got it. I sincerely recommending just googling the answers. But the town is so detailed and lovingly presented and there's just about enough random crap to do that it'll scratch a certain life-sim itch. It's a bit thin but I did like being in that space. I wish you ran a bit faster mind, this game loves putting objectives on completely contrary ends of the map and while it's not a big map it still takes just slightly too long to run from one end to the other. I feel like I spent a lot of my time in this game just walking. Unfortunately while the characters could salvage it, the translation is pretty rough. Rough enough that it actively interferes with gameplay on multiple occasions. I kind of boggle at the decision to take a game that is like 90% dialogue by volume and cheap out on translation, your publisher really screwed you here guys, I'd be pissed. It's a frustrating game because I see the vision. The story itself is not bad (although I feel like the climax is missing a few pieces to really connect everything but I respect the finality of its conclusion nonetheless) and the lovingly detailed depiction of an appealing space is impressive and enticing. But the core gameplay is poor and it's really only earning the rest of its stars on vibes alone. Excellent vibes though. Set these dudes up with someone who can actually design an interesting adventure game and they'd cook a fucking banger. Instead I have soggy chips inexplicably well seasoned.