The Old Tree
The Old Tree is a short free-to-play cinematic puzzle game about a newborn alien baby. Witness this microscopic entity's first moments of life and help it emerge from its underground lair and ascend towards an…
The Old Tree is an adventure developed by Red Dwarf Games, released 24 February 2012 on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It is free to play. The main story takes about 1 hrs to finish.
What The Old Tree is
The Old Tree is an adventure game developed by Red Dwarf Games and released in 2012. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Adobe Flash Player.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The Old Tree is a short free-to-play cinematic puzzle game about a newborn alien baby. Witness this microscopic entity's first moments of life and help it emerge from its underground lair and ascend towards an unknown destination.
How it plays
It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
The Old Tree holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 15% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2012 averaged 70, so it scored 10 points below the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 1 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Dual-core 2 GHz processor, 1 GB RAM and Nvidia GeForce 310 or equivalent graphics card. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.
What it launched against
The Old Tree launched on 24 February 2012, within three weeks of Mass Effect 3, Journey, Crusader Kings II and Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Mass Effect 3, Journey, Crusader Kings II, Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
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