Use your powers to journey between reality and book worlds and steal legendary items like Thor’s Hammer and Excalibur to restore your ability to write.

The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales – The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales is a narrative adventure in which you play as Etienne Quist, a writer-turned-thief with the ability to dive into books.

It’ll be fascinating to see Soulslike veterans taking this on and realizing quite how much there is to challenge yourself with here. Arenas are littered with multiple shells, meaning part of your strategy will come down to swapping in and out of different equipment to use all the powers available to you.

This comes to its own in some truly nail-biting boss fights.

Even better, each one also comes with a unique ability, making choosing the right one for any given fight a necessity.

Each one comes with its own health bar, immediately altering how defensively you’re forced to fight. Key to them is that you can pick up discarded bits of sea trash-soda cans, bottle tops, party hats, and more – and use them as temporary shells.

But don’t think this is just a reskin-there are some very interesting innovations to the familiar systems in here.

It might have a playfulness in its presentation – setting you out as a little crab whose shell has been stolen – but this is a deeply challenging action– RPG at its core. With the look of a classic mascot platformer, Another Crab’s Treasure lures you into its gorgeous cartoon world, before baring its claws. This may well hold the title of Cutest Soulslike Ever Made.

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