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Tick Tock: A Tale for Two

Other Tales Interactive · 2019

  • Puzzle
  • Co-op
  • Mystery

A decent co-op puzzle game. It has good ideas, but the execution falls short and ends up causing more frustration than it should.

Not recommended
  • 2.1 h played
  • Review published on Jan 20, 2025
  • 1 min read

Loved

  • Some really good puzzle ideas
  • I finished it without looking up hints

Not for me

  • Unintuitive puzzles with poor execution
  • The nine-drawing machine gives you way too little time
  • No achievements

The review

This is when I wish I could rate a game as "Neutral".

I don't recommend it, but I didn't really want to give it a thumbs down either.

The game itself has some really good puzzle ideas, but many of them are poorly executed, leaving you stuck on a puzzle because it isn't intuitive at all, because it feels like you missed some information earlier, or simply because the game is so minimalist that suddenly everything you click moves or makes noise, but has NOTHING to do with the puzzle.

Oh, and a special dishonorable mention for the puzzle with the nine-drawing machine: that wretched thing gives you WAY TOO LITTLE TIME!

If you're playing with someone over Discord or the like, you're totally doomed if there's any lag... A good puzzle idea, terrible execution.

I still managed to finish the game without looking up any answers or hints.

I know for many people this doesn't matter, but for me it matters a lot:

The game has NO ACHIEVEMENTS!

Unfortunately, I forgot to check that when I bought it.

Published on Steam on January 20, 2025. Read the original

For comparison

I don't give scores. But if you like numbers, here are everyone else's.

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7.0

User scorefrom 10 ratings

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Numbers from Oct 21, 2026.

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