The Path
The Path is a psychological horror art game developed by Tale of Tales originally released for the Microsoft Windows operating system on March 18, 2009 in English and Dutch, and later ported to Mac OS X by…
The Path is an adventure developed by Tale of Tales, released 18 March 2009 on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What The Path is
The Path is an adventure game developed by Tale of Tales and released in 2009. It is available on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
The game begins in an apartment. The player is shown six sisters to choose from and is given no information about them other than a name. When the player selects a girl, the journey begins. The player is given control of the girl, and is instructed: "Go to Grandmother's house and stay on the path." As the player explores, they find various items scattered around. For a girl to pick up or examine an object, the player needs to either click on the interaction button or move her close enough for a superimposed image of the object to appear on the screen, then let go of the controls. The character will interact and an image will appear on the screen, indicating what has been unlocked; every…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are historical and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
The Path holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 13 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2 Ghz, 1 GB RAM and Recent Geforce® or Radeon® x6xxx 256 MB (no integrated graphics). 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 Path launched on 18 March 2009, within three weeks of Resident Evil 5, Killzone 2, Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars and Empire: Total War. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Resident Evil 5, Killzone 2, Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, Empire: Total War.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Path yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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