Cleo: A Pirate's Tale is an adventure developed by Christoph Schultz, released 12 December 2021 on Nintendo Switch, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Cleo: A Pirate's Tale is
Cleo: A Pirate's Tale is an adventure game developed by Christoph Schultz and released in 2021. It was published by Greycap Audiovisual Mediadesign UG. It is available on Nintendo Switch, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Cleo is a 14-year-old cynical girl, living a repetitive life with her father in a bar. She knows everything about the epic adventures of pirate legend Captain Cabeca, but in her everyday life, she is just surrounded by boring fishermen and unsuccessful pirates, hanging around at the counter. But when Cleo finds a strange pirate-logbook and sees a ghost, who gives her mysterious hints, her boring life is about to get turned upside down. She is thrown into a dangerous adventure and finds herself in a world of lies, deceive, greed and bad breath - the world of pirates - and most of them are after the same thing: THE TREASURE OF ETERNAL MEMORY.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and comedy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Cleo: A Pirate's Tale launched on 12 December 2021, within three weeks of Halo Infinite, Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker, Solar Ash and GTFO. It arrived 4 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Halo Infinite, Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker, Solar Ash, GTFO.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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