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Foretales

2022

Should you play it?

Decide the fate of the world in this ingenious story-driven card game. Foretales offers a unique take on the adventure genre, with a multitude of playstyles and story paths through which you can save the world… or bring about its end.

What works

  • Unique narrative-driven card gameplay
  • High replayability with branching story paths
  • Beautiful art and music
  • Meaningful player choices
  • Immersive fantasy setting

Things to keep in mind

  • Repetitive gameplay on multiple runs
  • Lack of dialogue skipping frustrates replay
  • Some puzzles are obscure or trial-and-error
  • No multiplayer or social features
  • Save system limitations

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Fae Tactics

  • Floppy Knights

  • Arcanium: Rise of Akhan

  • 纸境英雄 Papercraft

  • Magicbook AutoBattler: Contract

  • GRANDIA II HD Remaster

Less leadership-focused

Games that feels like Foretales but with less leadership over others

  • Pyrene

  • Aces & Adventures

  • Menace from the Deep

  • StarVaders

  • Trizon

  • Slay the Spire

More violent

Games that feels like Foretales but with more combat and destruction

  • Trials of Fire

  • Gordian Quest

  • Hand of Fate 2

  • Dream of Corpse Lady

  • Nowhere Prophet

  • FrostBound

More intimate

Games that feels like Foretales but with more focus on close relationships

  • Sultan's Game

  • Battle Suit Aces

  • Thea: The Awakening

  • FINAL FANTASY VIII - REMASTERED

  • Mary Skelter: Nightmares

  • 天外武林 (Traveler of Wuxia)

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How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with Foretales. These titles are not in What to play next.

Foretales: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Survival, Fellowship, Intimacy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Leadership, Story. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Violence.

Last update: 21/08/2026