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The Bookwalker is a narrative adventure in which you play as Etienne Quist, a writer-turned-thief with the ability to dive into books. 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 is a adventure, singleplayer and atmospheric game developed by DO MY BEST and published by tinyBuild.
Released on June 22nd 2023 is available only on Windows in 10 languages: English, Russian, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil and Simplified Chinese.

It has received 2,154 reviews of which 1,987 were positive and 167 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.8 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 14.79€ on Steam, but you can find it for 0.56€ on Gamivo.

The Steam community has classified The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales into these genres:

Adventure Singleplayer Atmospheric Isometric Noir Story Rich Lore-Rich Surreal Dark Fantasy Mystery First-Person Dystopian Point & Click Detective Thriller Exploration Narration Drama Puzzle Visual Novel

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS *: Windows 7 and up
  • Processor: Dual-core
  • Memory: 6 GB RAM
  • Graphics: GTX 760 and up
  • Storage: 12 GB available space

User reviews & Ratings

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May 2025
The Bookwalker is an amazing game of morals, storytelling and self-reflection. As a book and lore nerd I loved the little tid bits from stories of old reimagined as you put the pieces of both worlds of The Bookwalker. So beautifully done, I would want a sequel because I never wanted the tales to end, however, this game ends so neatly concluded. If you like Disco Elysium, Where the water tastes like wine, Citizen Sleeper or Undertale - this is a gem you may treasure as well.
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Dec. 2024
I'm not sure ANY review can give this game justice, THAT'S HOW GOOD IT IS! In almost every way possible. Sure it's kind of simple on the graphics, but once you really dive in, only then do you begin to realize its genius. The game falls into chapters, each one with enough variety to keep the full game interesting, but with common elements to keep it familiar. It's pretty cozy, has a good sense of humor and you get a nice companion to keep you company and always has great advise. My wishlist for the next game would be to add a map, definitely include hotspots and add subtitles for when the phone is ringing as I sometimes play with the volume down (would help the deaf as well). Maybe allow for some more interactions around the apartment, rest of the building and even neighborhood! I can't wait to see what's next!!
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Oct. 2024
Despite the vaguely YA trappings of a story about a creative inflicted with writer's block as capital punishment, The Bookwalker is a game that more closely resembles books like Kafka's The Trial, Dostoyevsky's Notes From a Dead House and Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading in its telling of a failure hero who wants to escape his shackles under an everpresent yet unseen bureaucracy but struggles to abide by the anti-societal pragmatism rejecting his fate comes to demand Roderick is also best lantern friend
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Oct. 2024
Its one of those games which I really, really enjoyed and couldn't stop playing... until the game just ended hahaha. The concept is really cool , the art is amazing and basically I enjoyed every second of it. Really exited to keep a close eye on the developer and see what they come up with next <3
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Sept. 2024
A super interesting adventure game. There's no real challenge so it's a pretty laid back experience. The stories are engaging and the change of pace between first-person, isometric and combat sections are nice. For its current price, it's a steal.
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Frequently Asked Questions

The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales is currently priced at 14.79€ on Steam.

The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 14.79€ on Steam.

The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales received 1,987 positive votes out of a total of 2,154 achieving a rating of 8.81.
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The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales was developed by DO MY BEST and published by tinyBuild.

The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales is playable and fully supported on Windows.

The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales is not playable on MacOS.

The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales is not playable on Linux.

The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales is a single-player game.

There are 2 DLCs available for The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales. Explore additional content available for The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales on Steam.

The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales does not support Steam Remote Play.

The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales
14.79€ -97% 14.79€ 0.56€ -94% 14.79€ 1.00€
8.8
1,987
167
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DO MY BEST
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tinyBuild
Release 22 Jun 2023
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